Zenob Glak () was an

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historian who became the first abbot of the Glak monastery (also known as ''Surb Karapet Monastery'', dedicated to

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) in the Taron region of Greater Armenia. He began the chronology that would become the ''History of Taron'' of John Mamikonean (10th century, the 35th abbot after Zenob). (ed. Langlois, Venice 1832). Zenob's ''History'' is a somewhat legendary account of Armenia's foremost Christian enlightener

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, and may have been originally written in Syriac (according to some sources Zenob was of

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descent Иосиф Эмин / А. Р. Иоаннисян - 1989, c. 122) in the 5th century, though it was Armenized in a later century.

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