Books in the Syriac Studies Library series

In this study, H. G. Kleyn deals with the life and works of Jacob Baradaeus and the role he played in the "monophysite" church to the time of his death in 578, including a thorough outline of Jacob's writings.

The Monumenta Syriaca set contains a variety of Syriac texts, including biographical fragments on Roman popes, several exegetical texts, and homilies, by authors such as Ephrem, Jacob of Sarug, John of Dalyatha, Isaac of Nineveh, and others.

This volume studies the strophic patterns used by Ephrem the Syrian, which the author divides into five types. An appendix deals with possible relationships between Byzantine (esp. Romanos) and Syriac poetic forms.

The Philalethes of Severus of Antioch (d. 538) is one of the most important documents of anti-Chalcedonian christological writing. This volume contains the Syriac text, a Latin translation, and a brief introduction.

Scebabi here presents in vocalized Serto script a number of poems penned by the famous and prolific Barhebraeus (1225-1286) together with a Syriac-Arabic-Latin glossary of difficult words found in the poems.

This volume contains the Syriac text of sixth-century Church of the East author Thomas of Edessa's On the Nativity, along with a Latin translation and a brief introduction in English.

This detailed grammar of Syriac by the Maronite George Al-Ruzzi (Risius), written in Arabic, covers poetic meters in addition to the customary grammatical subjects.

This volume contains a German translation of a fascinating work on the soul in all its characteristics and aspects from the Syrian Orthodox author Mushe bar Kipho (d. 903).

This volume contains English translations of five works of various lengths from St. Ephrem on the theme of repentance. The translator also includes a lengthy introduction, notes to the translation, and indices.

This volume contains epistolary selections, in vocalized Serto script, of Joshua bar David (also known as bar Kilo), three questions from Jacob bar Shakko's Dialogue, and letters from David de Beth Rabban.

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.

This volume, Folkmann's doctoral dissertation, presents a critical edition of seven poems by Gewargis Warda (13th cent.) with critical notes and a German translation of two of the poems.

This volume contains the Syriac texts and annotated English translations of mystical treatises from five authors of the Church of the East belonging to the 7th and 8th centuries.

Grammar of Syriac, prepared by the celebrated editor of the New Testament, with bibliography of nineteenth-century works on Syriac, three Syriac texts, and glossary.

Dom R.H. Connolly provides an English translation and study of four liturgical homilies by Narsai.

Sachau here publishes, with Latin translation, fragments of Syriac translations of the works of Theodore of Mopsuestia: commentaries on Genesis and the Minor Prophets, On the Incarnation, a Morning Hymn, and various short exegetical and theological fragments.

This still standard study on Nestorius is guided by the question: Did Nestorius mean what people have thought that he meant? Chapters cover the sources and content for our knowledge about his teaching.

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.

August Hahn (1792-1863) here presents an early study of the famous marginal figure of early Christianity, Bardaisan. As is evident from the title of the book, Hahn is most concerned with Bardaisan as a hymnographer and a gnostic.

Payne Smith here gives an edition, prefaced by a helpful introduction (in Latin), of the Syriac translation of Cyril of Alexandria's interpretation of Luke's Gospel, which is incomplete in Greek.

This volume contains the dissertation of the Belgian scholar J. B. Abbeloos. Here he studies the life and works of Jacob of Sarug. The major section of the book deals with Jacob's thought, as taken from his homilies.

This volume contains a unique theological-philosophical text in Syriac known as the Book on the Knowledge of the Truth, or the Cause of Causes. The author describes it as "a common book for all peoples under heaven."

Moberg had already published a German translation of Barhebraeus's longer Syriac grammar based on a critically established Syriac text and here presents that text in this volume, along with an introduction (in French) and two indices (Syriac and French).

Selections from the Syriac romance about the evils of Julian the Apostate, made into a reading for students with complete glossary.

Payne Smith gives an English translation of part of John of Ephesus' Ecclesiastical History, which does not survive complete. It is one of the most significant texts for studying church history in the later sixth century in the east.

Nau gives here a heavily annotated French translation of the Syriac version of Nestorius's lost Greek work called The Book of Heraclides, a lengthy defense and description of his christological position, along with a few shorter texts.

Duval's thorough Syriac grammar takes its place beside Noeldeke's "compendious" grammar as a standard resource for every student and scholar of Syriac.

Wright's edition of the homilies of the early Syriac father, Aphrahat, includes the text, critical apparatus, and notes on biblical citations, which are also indexed. The preface surveys Aphrahat's life and deals with the manuscripts used.

This volume presents, in Syriac and English, Job of Edessa's encyclopedic work covering all manner of scientific topics. It will be of interest to readers interested in Aristotelianism and the intellectual climate of the Middle East around the ninth century.

Lamy here studies questions on the Eucharist according to Syriac witnesses. In addition, he gives canonical texts (in Syriac and Latin with thorough commentary) from John of Tella and Jacob of Edessa.