The Holocaust has provoked many different Jewish theological responses, yet upon closer inspection interesting commonalities can be observed between even seemingly antithetical thinkers. One of these common trends within Holocaust theology has been the rejection and replacement of traditional theodicies which explain and justify suffering, with responses centred on ideas of recovery, consolation and divine mystery. Another widespread, though largely unrecognized trend is use of Jewish mystical themes by Holocaust theologians. This study shows how the presence of Jewish mysticism can be explained, at least in part, by this post-Holocaust collapse of theodicy.

This invaluable eleven-volume set on the Chronicle of Michael the Great makes the scholarly resources on this unique manuscript available together for the first time. Now inaccessible, the Chronicle is the largest medieval chronicle known, and is available here for the first time in history as a facsimile copy of the original manuscript, as well as in a copy of the original Syriac, the French translation, an abbreviated Armenian recension, and Arabic versions. The Chronicle is one of the most important primary sources on the history of the Middle East, especially the period between the rise of Islam and the Crusades.

This much-cited essay contains the third century Christian leader Cyprian's letter to his friend Donatus written shortly after his conversion.

This volume contains the English translation of the histories of Rabban Sawma and Mar Yahbalaha III (ca. 1230-1300) and their travels from China across Persia into Iraq. The translator also offers over 100 pages of prefatory material.

This volume, Folkmann’s doctoral dissertation, presents a critical edition of seven poems by Gewargis Warda (13th cent.) with critical notes and a German translation of two of the poems.

This work presents in German translation Eliya (or Elias) of Nisibis’ Book of the Proof of the Correct Faith, a polemical work with chapters against Muslims, Jews, Melkites, and Syrian Orthodox Christians.

Kayser here offers the Syriac text and German translation of a set of answers given by the famous Jacob of Edessa to questions by the priest Addai.

Sachau here gives an annotated German translation, with lengthy introduction, of the controversial Chronicle of Arbela, which gives sketches of 20 early bishops (104-511) of the city, including mention of martyrdoms under the Persians.

This volume contains the Syriac texts and annotated English translations of mystical treatises from five authors of the Church of the East belonging to the 7th and 8th centuries.

In this work, Jesuit scholar Henricus Gismondi presents ten poems from the collection of theological poetry known as the Paradise of Eden by Abdisho bar Brikha, otherwise known as Ebedjesus, (d. 1318) in Syriac and Latin.

This is a commentary of the fourth century Syriac saint Tatian’s work Diatessaron.

These three volumes constitute the standard edition of the second part of Barhebraeus’ Chronography, which deals with sacred history of both the eastern and western regions of the Syriac church, together with a Latin translation and a number of notes.

These three volumes constitute the standard edition of the second part of Barhebraeus’ Chronography, which deals with sacred history of both the eastern and western regions of the Syriac church, together with a Latin translation and a number of notes.

The present volume contains an annotated Latin translation of the collection of saints’ lives and fragments of the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus, prefaced by a lengthly list of emendations to the Syriac text.

This volume contains an annotated French translation of the Chronography of East Syriac author Eliya (or Elias) of Nisibis, also known as Eliya bar Shinaya, (975–1046).

This volume contains epistolary selections, in vocalized Serto script, of Joshua bar David (also known as bar Kilo), three questions from Jacob bar Shakko’s Dialogue, and letters from David de Beth Rabban.