Armenian, Coptic, Arabic and other Eastern writers
Writers and chroniclers of the Armenian, Coptic, Arabic and Ethiopic churches, in older public-domain English translations.
Martyrdom of Isaac of Tiphre
A Coptic account of the martyr Isaac of Tiphre in Egypt.
1 workLife of Shenouda
A Syriac version of the life of the Coptic abbot Shenouda of Atripe.
1 workAnanias of Shirak
Armenian mathematician and writer on the calendar and the church year.
3 worksCoptic texts (anonymous)
Anonymous lives, homilies and apocryphal writings that survive in Coptic, the language of Egyptian Christians, many of them put under the names of famous Fathers and some translated from Greek.
7 worksApocalypse of Samuel of Kalamoun
A Coptic apocalypse put under the name of Samuel, abbot of Qalamun.
1 workJohn of Nikiu
Egyptian bishop whose chronicle survives in Ethiopic.
1 workPaulician Church of Armenia
The Paulicians were a movement of Armenian Christians, active from the seventh century, who rejected the cult of the Virgin, the cross and the Church’s hierarchy and held an adoptionist view of Christ. Their manual, the Key of Truth, was copied in 1782 and survives in a single manuscript.
1 workHunayn ibn Ishaq
Nestorian physician and translator of Greek works into Syriac and Arabic at Baghdad.
1 workYahya ibn Adi
Syriac Orthodox philosopher and translator in Baghdad, who wrote in Arabic.
3 worksSeverus of al-Ashmunein
Coptic bishop whose History of the Patriarchs is the main source for the Coptic church.
2 worksAbu al-Khayr ibn al-Tayyib
Christian Arabic writer of Baghdad.
1 workAbdallah ibn al-Tayyib
Physician, philosopher and priest of the Church of the East in Baghdad.
1 workAbu al-Majdalus
Arabic Christian writer who commented on the Nicene Creed.
1 workGerasimos
Arabic Christian writer; an extract of his Apology is translated here.
1 workKebra Nagast
The ‘Glory of the Kings’, the national epic of Ethiopia, which tells how the Queen of Sheba visited Solomon and how their son Menyelek brought the Ark of the Covenant to Ethiopia; it was put into its present form in the early fourteenth century.
1 work