Texts from Christian Late Antiquity
Publisher: Gorgias Press
TeCLA (Texts from Christian Late Antiquity) is a series presenting ancient Christian texts both in their original languages and with accompanying contemporary English translations.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 55
ISBN: 9781463205539
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2016
Description:
In this second part of Homily 71, On the Fashioning of Creation, Jacob treats the making of the firmament: what it was, where it was, what – as far as can be determined – was placed above it and what below it, its purpose and utility for humanity, and the importance of its place in the Genesis account of the six day progression of creation.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 403
ISBN: 9781463205935
Pub Date: 25 Jul 2016
Description:
Isaac the Syrian lived the solitary life in the 7th century. He was born in Qatar and subsequently lived in present day Iraq and Iran. After life as a monk, then briefly as a bishop, he withdrew to live the solitary life.
These discourses are primarily for solitaries to consolidate them in the love and mercy of God. In this volume, the text of Isaac V has also been included because of the light which it sheds on Apocatastasis, of increasing interest in academic and ecclesial circles.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 297
ISBN: 9781463205805
Pub Date: 07 Jul 2016
Description:
Five homilies by Jacob of Sarug on women whom Jesus met: the Canaanite Woman, the Samaritan Woman, the Hemorrhaging Woman, the Woman Bent Double, and Jairus' Daughter.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 63
ISBN: 9781463206154
Pub Date: 07 Jul 2016
Description:
In this third part of Homily 71, On the Fashioning of Creation, Jacob treats the God's separation of the waters from the earth, and the bringing forth of vegetation on the newly-revealed dry land.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9781463206055
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2016
Description:
Part of a series of fascicles containing the bilingual Syriac-English editions of Saint Jacob of Sarug’s homilies, this volume contains his homilies on Praise at Table. These homilies offer a glimpse into the efforts of one late antique author to construct distinctly Christian meaning from the experience of communal meal-sharing. The Syriac text is fully vocalized, and the translation is annotated with a commentary and biblical references.
The volume is one of the fascicles of Gorgias Press’s The Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug, which, when complete, will contain all of Jacob’s surviving sermons. 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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 374
ISBN: 9781463205669
Pub Date: 01 Jun 2016
Description:
The Compendious Commentary by the Church of the East monk Dadishoʿ Qaṭraya (7th cent.) was originally written in Syriac but was eventually translated into Garshuni or Syro-Arabic. It is a work aimed at immersing the novice monk in the spiritual lore of the monastic vocation, and saturating his mind and spirit with advice and warnings about the pitfalls of aiming to be perfect while remaining nevertheless an imperfect human being.
This is a critical edition and translation of the Compendious Commentary in Garshuni that uses all available manuscripts.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 137
ISBN: 9781463205621
Pub Date: 08 Feb 2016
Description:
Jacob of Sarug's pastoral concern and rhetorical acumen have appropriately earned him the title “the lyre of the Holy Spirit”. This volume presents Jacob's admonitions to those living a life of consecrated singleness to God.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 169
ISBN: 9781593337353
Pub Date: 03 Feb 2016
Description:
This volume gives a bilingual Syriac-English edition of Saint Jacob of Sarug’s homily on the Chariot which the Prophet Ezekiel saw. 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.
In Syriac and English.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 107
ISBN: 9781463205614
Pub Date: 29 Jan 2016
Description:
Jacob of Sarug's pastoral concern and rhetorical acumen have earned him the title “the lyre of the Holy Spirit”. This volume presents both a text and translation of Jacob’s exposition of a passage central to Christian liturgy and piety.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 129
ISBN: 9781463202606
Pub Date: 11 Sep 2015
Description:
The first English translation and first complete critical text of a neglected moral treatise from fourth-century Egypt, throwing fresh light on the social history of Egyptian Christianity and on the growth of the church-order tradition.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 130
ISBN: 9781463205508
Pub Date: 12 Aug 2015
Description:
A critical edition of a fragmentary Arabic manuscript (Mingana Chr. Arab. 18), together with a study which suggests that the three Arabic versions do not represent three different texts, but rather three versions all drawing on the same original text.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 152
ISBN: 9781463202859
Pub Date: 14 Aug 2014
Description:
This volume presents, with introduction and annotations, two metrical homilies (Bedjan nos. 82, 126) of Jacob of Sarug in which he reflects on the Temptation of Jesus as combat between Satan and Jesus, the latter emerging as the humble victor.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 271
ISBN: 9781593339814
Pub Date: 04 Jun 2014
Description:
The Syriac Book of Steps collects 30 sermons by a late 4th century anonymous author in the Persian Empire. The author details the spiritual life, highlighting the duties and problems of two ranks of committed Christians, the Upright and the Perfect.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 188
ISBN: 9781463202620
Pub Date: 14 Apr 2014
Description:
Armenian text of the Prayers attributed to Ephrem the Syrian, with the first-ever translation into a western language. Utilizing a highly developed poetic rhythm, the author manifests a profound spirituality laying his own emptiness before the inexhaustible Mercy of God.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9781463202149
Pub Date: 08 Apr 2014
Description:
Moses bar Kepha: Commentary on Myron is an important witness to the history of the West Syriac Liturgy. Fr. Baby Varghese has translated the Syriac text into English for the first time.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 74
ISBN: 9781463202644
Pub Date: 26 Mar 2014
Description:
Mêmrâ 72 is a meditation on the fall of Adam and its consequences, subjecting all creation to corruption. God’s mercy, however, will restore everything to a spiritual, incorruptible state that will exist eternally in the unending light of Christ.
