Syriac and the Church of the East
Writers of the Syriac-speaking churches of Syria, Mesopotamia and Persia.
Bardesanes of Edessa
Syriac philosopher and poet of Edessa; the Book of the Laws of the Countries comes from his school.
1 workMara bar Serapion
Syrian Stoic philosopher whose letter to his son mentions Christ among wise men.
1 workDocuments of the Church of Edessa
Old Syriac accounts of the conversion of Edessa and its martyrs.
10 worksJacob the Persian Philosopher
Syriac writer, quoted on Bardesanes.
1 workAphrahat the Persian Sage
The first Syriac church father, in Persia.
4 worksEphrem the Syrian
Deacon, poet and teacher, the great voice of the Syriac church.
18 worksDoctrine of Addai
A Syriac account of the founding of the church of Edessa.
1 workMaruthas of Martyropolis
Bishop who worked between the Roman and Persian churches.
1 workNarsai of Nisibis
Syriac poet and teacher, head of the school of Nisibis, the chief theological school of the Church of the East; his metrical homilies earned him the title ‘harp of the Spirit’.
1 workLegends of Eastern saints
Legends of saints from Syriac and other Eastern sources.
1 workLiturgy of Malabar
The liturgy of the Syrian Christians of Malabar in south India, an East Syriac rite near that of Addai and Mari.
1 workSyriac Miscellanies
Extracts from Syriac writings with English translations, collected by B. H. Cowper in 1861.
1 workChronicle of Edessa
An anonymous Syriac chronicle of the city of Edessa.
1 workAmbrose the Syrian
Author of the Syriac Hypomnemata, an extract of which Cureton published.
1 workCave of Treasures
An anonymous Syriac history of the world from the creation to the crucifixion, named from the cave in which Adam’s treasures were kept; the manuscripts put it under the name of Ephrem the Syrian, but it was written later.
1 workPseudo-Zachariah of Mitylene
A Syriac chronicle that includes the church history of Zachariah Rhetor.
1 workReligious Discussion at the Court of the Sassanids
A Christian-Zoroastrian debate.
1 workJohn bar Penkaye
Syriac monk who wrote a history of the world.
1 workEast Syriac monastic histories
Lives and histories of the monks of the Church of the East, written in Syriac, some as prose and some as long metrical poems, about the founders and heroes of the mountain monasteries of northern Mesopotamia.
3 worksIsaac of Nineveh
Syriac monk and bishop; the Mystic Treatises.
1 workTimothy I of Baghdad
Patriarch of the Church of the East, who debated the Caliph al-Mahdi.
1 workThomas of Marga
Bishop of Marga in northern Mesopotamia and secretary to the patriarch; he wrote the Book of Governors, a history of the monastery of Beth ʿAbhe and of the monks of the Church of the East.
1 workAgapius of Hierapolis
Melkite bishop who wrote a universal history in Arabic.
1 workDionysius bar Salibi
Syriac Orthodox bishop and commentator.
2 worksSolomon of Basra
Bishop of Basra (Pêrath-Maishân) in the Church of the East; his Book of the Bee is a collection of teachings on the creation, the patriarchs, the prophets, Christ, the apostles and the end of the world, ‘gleaned’ like honey from earlier writers.
1 workAbdisho bar Brikha
Metropolitan of Nisibis and Armenia; wrote a catalogue of Syriac writers and a summary of doctrine.
2 worksLate Syriac writers
Writers of the Church of the East in the thirteenth century.
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