Syriac and Eastern Christianity

The relations of three pseudepigrapha of Cyprian and the Acts of Paul; an elegant piece of reasoning.

This work is a German-language account of Abo of Tiflis, a Muslim convert to Georgian Christianity in the eighth century.

The tradition of saying Grace before meals in the Greek church, its origns, and its relations to the liturgy of the Eucharist.

This volume compiles various ancient lives including that of Simeon Stylites. This is both a standard piece of source-criticism and a sourcebook for all modern students of Symeon.

In this multi-faceted study of Greek texts related to Ephrem, Emereau examines these works from a number of angles, including their poetic form, their influence on homily writers of the 5th cent., and Byzantine hymnography.

Rahmani presents an edition of Ephrem’s poems “On Virginity,’ which in fact deal with a number of other subjects as well, especially biblical narratives. He presents the Syriac text, an annotated Latin translation, an introduction, and a brief lexicon.

On the works of Nilus the Ascetic; the genuine and extensive fifth century correspondence and the spurious romance.

Here Syrian Orthodox Patriarch and scholar Ignatius Aphrem I Barsoum (1887-1957) presents an annotated edition, with introduction, of one of the Arabic treatises on the soul by Barhebraeus.

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.

This work contains inscriptions from the Ramesseum in Thebes and the tomb of Ptahhotep at Thebes, as well as the archaeological work of 1896 in Egypt.

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

Description of the excavations of several places in north-eastern Egypt in 1906

Report of the 1900 excavations of Abydos, which discovered some of the oldest Egyptian artwork

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.

Sachau here gives an annotated German translation, with lengthy introduction, of the controversial Chronicle of Arbela, which gives sketches of 20 early bishops (104-511) of the city, including mention of martyrdoms under the Persians.

This volume constitutes a documentary history of the Maronites and their relationship to Rome from the 6th to the 16th century. The author provides texts in Latin, Arabic, Syriac, and French to illustrate this history.

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 work, two volumes in one, Middeldorpf presents an edition of a large part of the Old Testament (2 Kings, Isaiah, the Minor Prophets, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Lamentations, and Ecclesiastes) together with over 250 pages of commentary.

This volume contains the English translation of the histories of Rabban Sawma and Mar Yahbalaha III (ca. 1230-1300) and their travels from China across Persia into Iraq. The translator also offers over 100 pages of prefatory material.

This volume, intended for general readers, covers the history and characteristics of the Maronite Church from its earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century.

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.

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.

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).