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E.A. Wallis Budge
The importance of these biographies lies in the fact that their subjects founded two great monasteries which became centers for teaching and monasticism at a critical period of the Church…
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The publication of ancient Syriac documents was a passion for Budge. In this two-volume set, volume 1 in Syriac and volume 2 in English, Budge offers the two documents entitled…
Philoxenus of Mabbug, who died in 523, is one of the most important theologians of the Syrian Orthodox tradition. Budge here offers the Syriac text and English translation of his…
This work consists of three different encomia of the Archangel Michael, each dealing with a different miracle.
The first complete edition, containing 727 laughable stories , by Bar-Hebraeus. It was the child of the compiler’s old age, and says much for the broadmindedness and versatility of the…
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…
This is a Syriac edition, with English translation, of the folk-lore and legends connected to Alexander the Great. This ancient text represents a Greek text that is much older than…
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This is the standard edition of the chronicle of Bar Hebraeus in Syriac and English translation. It gives the political history of the world from the creation to the year…
This book is written by E.A. Wallis Budge, who was fanatically interested in Ancient languages. Fatherless and leaving school at 12 he worked as a clerk for W.H. Smith and…
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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This text, the first English translation of the Ethiopic version of a Christianized Buddhist legend, contains descriptions of the Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Armenian, Georgian, Greek, Latin and Western European…
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First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2012. Written by one of the most remarkable and erudite scholars of the early twentieth century, this book gives a unique and authoritive picture of one of…
E.A. Budge
This volume, first published in 1902 as part of the Egypt and Chaldaea series, is the second of eight volumes by Budge dealing with different periods in the history of…
First published in 1912, this work is the first of two volumes which deal explicitly with ancient Egyptian literature. Budge reproduces the most typical literature in hieroglyphic form, with the…
First published in 1912, this workis the second of two volumes which deal explicitly with ancient Egyptian literature. This volume contains Egyptian texts, with English translations, taken from the Seven…
John Romer,Penguin Press
A collection of funerary texts from a variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC. It consists of spells, prayers and incantations, and contains the words…
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Wahle Sergius
E. A. Wallis Budge presents here the Syriac text of a metrical, acrostic work that covers the life of Rabban Hormizd and the foundation of the monastery named after him…
E.A. Wallis Budge,Thomas of Marga
This narrative forms a history of the monasticism and asceticism of the Church of the East in the countries east of the Tigris. It is a valuable supplement to this…
Budge,Bishop of Marga Thomas
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
First published in 1910, Egyptian Language provides a simple introduction to the study of Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions. Including an account of the decipherment of the hieroglyphic system and the general…
First published in 1899 as part of the Egypt and Chaldaea series, Egyptian Religion explores the principal ideas and beliefs held by the ancient Egyptians with regard to the doctrine…
