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Paul Bedjan
Bedjan presents Sahdona’s Book of Perfection, a significant resource for the study of East Syrian monasticism, and some shorter works. Also included are several homilies by Jacob of Sarug on…
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This large three-volume set of 3000 pages presents liturgical documents for the use of the East Syrian Church in communion with Rome. The entire book is only in Syriac, fully…
Bedjan here presents, in fully vocalized east Syriac script, Thomas of Marga’s Monastic History, ‘Ishodnah’s Book of Monastery Founders, Homilies on Joseph by Narsai, and a collection of shorter texts…
Bedjan here presents the Syriac text, in vocalized East Syriac script, of a lengthy and highly praised poem (sometimes attributed to Ephrem, sometimes to Balai) on the Joseph story. An…
An anthology of hymns and devotions to the Virgin Mary in ancient and modern Syriac, collected in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of the doctrine of the…
Under the name of Isaac of Antioch, also known as the Great, or the Teacher, more than 200 memre exist. Here Bedjan produces the (vocalized) Syriac text of 67 memre…
Gives the Syriac text of the account of Yaballaha III, Church of the East Patriarch, and his vicar Bar Sauma, the Mongol Ambassador to the Frankish courts at the end…
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Paul Bedjan produced this catechism to advance the knowledge of Catholicism among Aramaic-speaking Christians of the Middle East. The book is of interest not only for pedagogical purposes among the…
Exiled to Libya and Egypt, Nestorius, the Patriarch of Constantinople, composed an apologia defending his theological beliefs, which became known as the Book of Heraclides . This title presents the…
Gregory Abulfaraj Bar Hebraeus
Bar Hebraeus, a celebrated Syriac writer of the thirteenth century, wrote on nearly every subject imaginable. The Book of Ethics is a manual of discipline and etiquette covering secular life…
Isaac of Nineveh
St Isaac of Nineveh, or, as he is sometimes known, St Isaac the Syrian, was born in the region of modern Qatar and lived during the seventh century. St Isaac’s…
Claude Detienne
Containing many foundational stories of early Christianity, this work on collected acts of martyrs and saints is approved by the Roman Catholic Church.
A seven volume work on collected acts of martyrs and saints. It contains many foundational stories of early Christianity.
Joseph Ma'aruf
A Syriac compendium of eleven key ecumenical councils acknowledged by the Catholic Church, as an aid for his clergy and educated laypeople.
Jacob of Sarug
Jacob of Sarug is one of the most celebrated poets of Eastern Christianity and the Syriac tradition. The Gorgias Press edition, edited by Sebastian P. Brock, contains over 100,000 lines…
