Career
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 Gregory the Illuminator, and may have been originally written in Syriac (according to some sources Zenob was of Syrian descent ) in the 5th century, though it was Armenized in a later century.