Authorship
Gibbon in his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. 32) still accepted the 5th century date of Moses, on grounds that "deficient as he is in every qualification of a good historian, his local information, his passions and his prejudices, are strongly expressive of a native and contemporary", but Gutschmid (1876) showed the secondary nature of much of Moses' material, and current scholarship is doubtful of Moses' authorship of the work. According to Robert Thomson, "there are indications that the book itself was written after the 5th century. Not only does Movses use sources not available in Armenia at that time, he refers to persons and places attested only in the sixth or seventh centuries."
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