Religion

This study is set as a theological look at Ephrem the Syrian. After a general introduction, the author systematically examines a number of theological topics based on Ephrem’s poetry. The Syriac passages cited are also translated.

Kugener here gives an edition of the Syriac text, along with a thoroughly annotated French translation, of this unique astronomical and meteorological treatise attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite and later used in the 13th cent. by Jacob bar Shakko.

A selection of essays on magic and divination in relation to the biblical world, including Mesopotamian demonology, Akkadian literary influences, exorcism, healing, calendars, astrology, bibliomancy, dreams, ritual magic, priestly divination, prophecy, magic in the Christian Apocrypha and the New Testament, magic in rabbinic literature, and Jewish Aramaic magic bowls.

John Henry Jowett directs his exegesis of the Pauline epistles for the everyday consideration of challenges and grace. Study chapters are organized by verse.

This work consists of the first architectural description of the Temple of Seti I at Abydos, reporting the first full excavation of 1902.

This work is a reconstruction of Greek, Armenian, and Syriac versions of an early Christian text that explains to the Emperor why Christianity is the only philosophically adequate religion.

This article is a close translation, with explanatory notes, of the treatise Tattuva-Kattalei, the law of things according to their essential nature. This treatise was probably designed as a guide or manual for the Guru.

The author sets out to uncover more about the religion of the Achaemenian Kings and the Zoroastrian religion through many different kinds of ancient inscriptions and texts, both Persian and non-Persian.

Barhebraeus' Book of the Dove, a manual for monks, with a spiritual autobiography, is here given in English translation with a substantial introduction (123 pages).

A.J. Wensinck (1882–1939) here offers an English translation of Isaac of Nineveh’s (late 7th cent.) mystical work, with a total of 82 chapters on various spiritual themes. An introduction and indices accompany the translation.

In this volume, Boré (1809-1878), who traveled in the Middle East, offers a study of religious life among the Chaldeans, with much attention given to religious communities and monasticism, especially the Rabban Hormizd Monastery.

This book offers a survey of Judea, Galilee, and Coele Syria from the satrapy under Darius to the Roman reorganization under Pompey.

This is a listing and classification of the instances in which Codex D, the Beza Codex, alters the Gospels to make them agree with each other.

Epiphanius of Salamis, the late fourth-century Christian author, had a passionate concern for heresy. This monograph considers the manuscript traditions of his most notable works.

n addition to being an independent witness to his text, there is a treatise in Armenian which has not survived in Greek. With comments on the indirect influence of Irenaeus on the Armenian Church.

Five questions which arose during Heikel's editing of the first volume of his collected works of Eusebius of Caesarea, the bishop, church historian, servant and biographer of Constantine. This first volume deals with the works on Constantine.

This volume, printed at the Dominican Press in Mosul, is a guide to the church year for Syriac Catholics. It is prefaced by remarks of then Patriarch Ignatius George V Chelhot (1818-1891).

This short catalogue lists the heresies known on the Syrian frontier of the Roman Empire in the beginning of the fifth century.

This much-cited essay contains the third century Christian leader Cyprian's letter to his friend Donatus written shortly after his conversion.

This study is of the concept of atheotes ("godless") in antiquity in relation to Christianity.

This work reveals the uncovering of a forged letter about Jesus by the Berlin Professor of Theology with a consideration of the career and historical sense of the forger.

The Kurals are the wisdom literature of the Tamils, at the southern cape of India; the Kural of Tiruvalluvar is the most famous of them. German translation with commentary and appendices.

The Kurals are the wisdom literature of the Tamils, at the southern cape of India; the Kural of Tiruvalluvar is the most famous of them. Text, modern Tamil paraphrase, and Latin translation, with English notes and glossary.

An essay expounding the historical rise and decline of the Theological School of Antioch.

This unique volume has a discussion of the lives of the Fathers extant in Syriac texts then at the British Museum. Plates reproduce a number of fragments of these manuscripts, together with Dietrich’s descriptions.