The new Syriac primer: an introduction with a CD
In the turbulent atmosphere of the eighteenth century when the Ottoman Empire was enfeebled, local leaders far from Istanbul took matters into their own hands. At first, these leaders only regulated local trade and tax collection, but soon, leaders like Shaykh Zahir al-'Umar - a…
The lives of the desert fathers
by ebrary, Inc, Russell, Norman, Ward, Sister Benedicta
Eyewitness accounts of the lives and teachings of the fourth-century Desert Fathers from the Historia monachorum in Aegypto.
"This translation of John the Solitary is based on the Syriac text edited by S. Dedering. It is a description of the life of the soul; the framework, a triparite schema rooted in St. Paul, traces progression through the stages in the life of the innter person."--Back cover.
