Hakutulokset: Sarja Texts from Christian Late Antiquity
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Isaac the Syrian's Spiritual Works
Isaac the Syrian lived the solitary life in the 7th century. He was born in Qatar and subsequently lived in present day Iraq and Iran. After life as a monk, then briefly as a …
Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on the Resurrection
This edition of Mar Jacob of Sarug's (d. 521) homilies on the Resurrection contrast the Friday of sufferings and the Sunday of resurrection. At the resurrection heaven and earth …
The Life of Theodotus, Bishop of Amida (d. 698)
The Life of Theodotus of Amida is that rare thing: a securely dated eye-witness account of life under Arab Muslim rule in the first century of Islam, and one of the few extant …
Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on Elijah
This volume collects all of Mar Jacob of Sarug's (d. 521) extant homilies on the prophet Elijah. In these homilies Jacob shows a remarkable sensivity to the human motivations of …
Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on Abgar and Addai
Jacob of Sarug's homilies on King Abgar and the Apostle Addai, recounting the famous legend of Abgar of Edessa's conversion to Christianity.
John of Tella’s Profession of Faith
John became bishop of Tella in 519, but left for exile only two years later when Justin I enforced the Council of Chalcedon which Syrian Orthodox Christians refused to accept. John …
Jacob of Sarug's Homily on the Fashioning of Creation
The long memra translated here in this volume presents the seven parts of the homily on Creation in a single volume.
Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on the Six Days of Creation: The Fourth Day
In this fourth installment of the long Homily 71, On the Six Days of Creation, Jacob treats of the events of the fourth day, the creation of the spheres of light over the earth: …
A Description of the Prayers by Patriarch Ignatius Bar Wahib
An edition and English translation of 'A Description of the Prayers', one of the few extant works by face=Calibri>Ignatius V. Bar Wahib (Patriarch of Antioch from 1293–1333). The …
The Gnomai of the Council of Nicaea (Cc 0021)
The first English translation and first complete critical text of a neglected moral treatise from fourth-century Egypt, throwing fresh light on the social history of Egyptian …
Moshe Bar Kepha’s Cause of the Celebration of the Nativity
This book is a part of series of Causes of Celebrations written by Moshe Bar Kepha (813-903). These Causes are unique in that they demonstrate a new genre of the Syriac literature …
Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on the Six Days of Creation: The Third Day
In this third part of Homily 71, On the Fashioning of Creation, Jacob treats the God's separation of the waters from the earth, and the bringing forth of vegetation on the …