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Product Description: The fame of the martyr St. Phokas, first bishop of Sinope (on the Black Sea) and patron of seafarers, had spread to many parts of the Christian world by the fifth and sixth centuries. Although the Acts of his martyrdom under Trajan were composed in Greek, the earliest witness to them is the Syriac translation which is edited and translated here from two early manuscripts...read more
By Sebastian P. Brock (editor)

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9781463201890 | Gorgias Pr Llc, January 31, 2013, cover price $40.43 | About this edition: The fame of the martyr St.

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Product Description: Recognized as a saint by both Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christians alike, Jacob of Sarug (d. 521) produced many narrative poems that have rarely been translated into English. Of his reported 760 metrical homilies, only about half survive...read more
By Sebastian P. Brock (editor), Stephen Kaufman (trans) and George Anton Kiraz (editor)

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9781607243021 | Gorgias Pr Llc, October 31, 2010, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Recognized as a saint by both Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christians alike, Jacob of Sarug (d.

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Product Description: What was Joseph's reaction when he arrived home to find Mary pregnant? How did Mary manage to persuade him that her child was none other than the Son of God? Dialogue poems offer lively, thought-provoking re-imaginings of Biblical events.

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9781593338398 | Gorgias Pr Llc, September 30, 2010, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: What was Joseph's reaction when he arrived home to find Mary pregnant?

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Product Description: This volume gives a bilingual Syriac-English edition of Saint Jacob of Sarug's homily, The Veil on Moses' Face. The Syriac text is fully vocalized, and the translation is annotated with a commentary and biblical references. The volume constitutes a fascicle of Gorgias's Complete Homilies of Saint Jacob of Sarug...read more
By Sebastian P. Brock (editor) and George A. Kiraz (editor)

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9781593336448 | Bilingual edition (Gorgias Pr Llc, May 5, 2009), cover price $78.12 | About this edition: This volume gives a bilingual Syriac-English edition of Saint Jacob of Sarug's homily, The Veil on Moses' Face.

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Product Description: Ephrem the Syrian is the most important poet and theologian of the Syriac Christian tradition. His numerous hymns, homilies, and commentaries were highly influential for later generations, and his poetry continues to be broadly used in the liturgies of Syrian Christian churches...read more

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9780934893657 | Brigham Young Univ Pr, February 15, 2007, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Ephrem the Syrian is the most important poet and theologian of the Syriac Christian tradition.

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Gives an introduction to the Syriac versions of the Bible, with chapters on the manuscript tradition, the main editions, commentaries, and various aspects of the ways the Bible was interpreted and used in the Syriac literary and liturgical tradition. It also includes a bibliography that provides guidance to the tools, and secondary literature.

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9781593333003 | 2 revised edition (Gorgias Pr Llc, December 20, 2006), cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Gives an introduction to the Syriac versions of the Bible, with chapters on the manuscript tradition, the main editions, commentaries, and various aspects of the ways the Bible was interpreted and used in the Syriac literary and liturgical tradition.

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9781593333355, titled "The Wisdom of Isaac of Nineveh: A Bilingual Editionÿ" | 3 blg edition (Gorgias Pr Llc, March 31, 2006), cover price $32.00

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Product Description: An excellent introduction to the Syriac Bible and its usage in the Syriac tradition. Brock gives an outline of all the Syriac versions of the Old and New Testaments, with chapters on the usage of the Bible, biblical commentaries and liturgical use of the scriptures.

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9781931956154 | Gorgias Pr Llc, September 1, 2002, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: An excellent introduction to the Syriac Bible and its usage in the Syriac tradition.

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9780520057050 | Univ of California Pr, July 1, 1987, cover price $85.00

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9780520213661 | Updated edition (Univ of California Pr on Demand, April 1, 1998), cover price $29.95

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9789004077669 | Reprint edition (Brill Academic Pub, August 1, 1997), cover price $120.00

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Product Description: The Seventh Century in the West-Syrian Chronicles makes accessible to a wide public sources vital for the reconstruction of events in the first Islamic century, covering the period which ends with the unsuccessful Arab siege of Constantinople, an event which both modern historians and Syriac chronographers see as making a decisive caesura in history...read more
By Sebastian P. Brock (trans), Robert G. Hoyland (editor) and Andrew Palmer (editor)

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9780853232384 | Liverpool Univ Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The Seventh Century in the West-Syrian Chronicles makes accessible to a wide public sources vital for the reconstruction of events in the first Islamic century, covering the period which ends with the unsuccessful Arab siege of Constantinople, an event which both modern historians and Syriac chronographers see as making a decisive caesura in history.

Product Description: al but unknown outside the Syrian tradition, Ephrem's rich theology of symbol, asceticism, and prayer amply deserves to stand beside his more famous greek contemporaries. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780879075248 | Revised edition (Cistercian Pubns, December 1, 1992), cover price $36.95 | About this edition: al but unknown outside the Syrian tradition, Ephrem's rich theology of symbol, asceticism, and prayer amply deserves to stand beside his more famous greek contemporaries.

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9780879076245 | Revised edition (Cistercian Pubns, September 1, 1992), cover price $29.95

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