Zenob Glak(Armenian:Զենոբ Գլակ) was anArmenian[1][2]historian who became the first abbot of theGlak monastery(also known asSurb Karapet Monastery,dedicated toSt. John the Baptist) in theTaronregion ofGreater Armenia.He began the chronology that would become theHistory of TaronofJohn Mamikonean(10th century, the 35th abbot after Zenob). (ed. Langlois, Venice 1832).
Zenob'sHistoryis a somewhat legendary account of Armenia's foremost Christian enlightenerGregory the Illuminator,and may have been originally written in Syriac (according to some sources Zenob was ofSyriandescent[3]) in the 5th century, though it was Armenized in a later century.