Notes to readers
- We intend to populate this list of hagiographical writings with more of the numerous saints' Lives that are available in digitized form on the internet. This list represents only a foundation based on the major collections, especially of martyr acts.
- Abbreviations: BHO = Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis; ET = English translation; FT = French translation; GT = German translation; LT = Latin translation
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- A. Palmer, Monk and mason on the Tigris frontier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. (Text)
- A. Palmer, Ed., Tašʻita d-qadiša Mar Šmuʾel w-Mar Šemʻon w-Mar Gabriʾel / maṣḥa wa-sriṭa men nuske ʻatiqe b-yad ʼAndrʼos Baʼlmar. Holland: Monastery of Mar Ephrem, 1983. (Text)
- P. Peeters, Ed., Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis. Brussels: Society of Bollandists, 1910. (Text)
- G. Phillips, Ed., The Doctrine of Addai, the Apostle, now First Edited in a Complete Form in the Original Syriac, with an English Translation and Notes. London: Trübner & co., 1876. (Text)
- J. B. Pitra and Martin, J. P. P., Eds., Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata, vol. 4. Paris: Publico Galliarum Typographeo, 1883. (Text)
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- R. Raabe, Ed., Die Geschichte des Dominus Mâri, eines Apostels des Orients. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1893. (Text)
- I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis: Documenta varia, vol. 1, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1904. (Text)
- I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis: Apocryphi hypomnemata Domini Nostri, seu, Acta Pilati, vol. 2, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1908. (Text)
- I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis: Vetusta documenta liturgica, vol. 3, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1908. (Text)
- I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis: Documenta de antiquis haeresibus, vol. 4, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1909. (Text)
- I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu, Collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis, vol. 5, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1909. (Text)
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- P. Peeters, Ed., Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis. Brussels: Society of Bollandists, 1910.
- P. Peeters, “Le martyrologe de Rabban Sliba”, Analecta Bollandiana, vol. 27, pp. 129–200., 1908.
- Nau's has a collation of a new manuscript against Peeters' edition:
- F. Nau, “Un martyrologie et douze ménologes syriaques”, in Patrologia Orientalis, Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1912, pp. 5-26.
- Wright's editio princeps and English Translation of the fourth-century Martyrologium Syriacum from BL Add. 12,150 can be found here:
- H. Delehaye, Synaxarium ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae. Brussels: Society of Bollandists, 1902.
- Menologion of Simeon Metaphrastes (PG 114:294-1462; 115; 116:1-1080)
- Menologion of Basil (PG 117)
(NB: This latter three are not, strictly speaking, Syriac resources, but are, nevertheless, extremely important for the study of hagiography).
- Roger Pearse has put up links to the very important Patrologia Orientalis
Collected Editions of Hagiographical Texts
(in alphabetical order by last name of editor or translator)
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- Cf. BHO 610, 1, 2.
- German Translation
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- Story of Simon Peter, Chief of the Apostles (Syriac) (= BHO 935)
- Narrative of the Holy Apostle Saint Paul (Syriac) (= BHO 889)
- The Narrative of Mar Mari, the Apostle (Syriac) (= BHO 610)
- Acts of Sharbel the Martyr (Syriac) (= BHO 1049–1050)
- Martyrdom of Barsamias (Syriac) (= BHO 151)
- Memra on Gurya and Shmuna, composed by Jacob of Sarugh (Syriac) (= BHO 366)
- Martyrdom of Habib the Deacon (Syriac) (= BHO 367)
- Memra on Habib the Deacon, composed by Jacob of Sarugh (Syriac) (= BHO 368)
- Narrative of the holy Mar ‘Abd al-Masih (Syriac) (= BHO 3)
- Memra on the Confessors of Palestine, written by Eusebios of Caesarea (Syriac) (= BHO 710) (See Below)
- George (Syriac) (= BHO 313) (read the Syriac along with this)
- The Eight Children who were Martyred in Ephesos (Syriac) (= BHO 1012) (Read with this) [= "The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus", Part 2 of the Seven Sleepers story (Syriac) (= BHO 1014)]
- Narrative of the second Invention of the Holy Cross (Syriac) (= BHO 218)
- John bar Malke (Syriac) (= BHO 498)
- Marina (Syriac) (= BHO 696)
- Himyarite Martyrs (Martyrs of Najran); Letter of Simeon of Beth Arsham (Syriac) (= BHO 99–101)
- Zia (Syriac) (= BHO 1251)
- Shlita (Syriac) (= BHO 1034)
- Mar Yawnan the Stranger (Syriac) (= BHO 527–528) (Read with this)
- Martyrs of Palestine:
- Prokopios (Syriac) (= BHO 1002–1003)
- Alphaeus (Syriac) (= BHO 45–46)
- Timothy (Syriac) (= BHO 1230–1231)
- Agapios and others (Syriac) (= BHO 31–32)
- Apphianus (Syriac) (= BHO 94)
- Alusis/Aedesius (Syriac) (= BHO 27)
- Agapios (Syriac) (= BHO 31)
- Theodosia (Syriac) (= BHO 1176)
- Domninos (Syriac) (= BHO 264)
- Paulos, Valentina and Ennatha (Syriac) (= BHO 918)
- Antoninos, Zebinas, Germanos, and Mannathos (Syriac) (= BHO 65)
- Ares, Primos, and Elia (Syriac) (= BHO 98)
- Peter ‘Abshlama (Syriac) (= BHO 927 and 928)
- Pamphilos, Valens, and Seleukos (Syriac) (= BHO 831)
- Hadrianos and Eubulos (Syriac) (= BHO 369)
- Paulos, Nilos, Patermuthius and Elia (Syriac) (= BHO 920)
- Silvanos and those with him (Syriac) (= BHO 1065)
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- Sultan, Mahduct, Adurparva, and Mihnerses (Syriac) (=BHO 1106)
- Zebina and his fellows (Syriac) (=BHO 531)
- Shapor, Isaac, Mana, Abraham, and Simeon (Syriac) (=BHO 1042)
- About the Victory of the martyrs of the East (1) (Syriac) (=BHO 706)
- About the Victory of the martyrs of the East (2) (Syriac) (=BHO 706)
- Simeon Bar Sabbae (Syriac) (=BHO 1117)
- Another of Simeon Bar Sabbae and his fellows (Syriac) (=BHO 1119)
- Posi (Syriac) (=BHO 993)
- Martha, daughter of Posi (Syriac) (=BHO 698)
- The great slaughter among the Khuzites (Syriac) (=BHO 698)
- Azad (Syriac) (=BHO 124)
- Tharbo (Syriac) (=BHO 1149)
- Miles, Aborsam (Abrosimus), and Sinoi (Syriac) (=BHO 772)
- Sadoth (Sahdust) (Syriac) (=BHO 1033)
- Barsabias (Syriac) (=BHO 146)
- Narsai and Joseph (Syriac) (=BHO 806)
- A Summary of the martyrs (Syriac) (=BHO 807)
- Daniel and Warda (Syriac) (=BHO 245)
- The 120 men and nine women (Syriac) (=BHO 718)
- Barbasemin and the 16 martyrs (Syriac) (=BHO 135)
- The contest of the [Persian] martyrs killed in various places (Syriac) (=BHO 711)
- Jacob and Maria (Syriac) (=BHO 426)
- Thekla and the four with her (Syriac) (=BHO 1157)
- Barhadbeshabba (Syriac) (=BHO 138)
- Martyrdom of the captives: Heliodorus, Dosas, Mareabes (Mariab), and Abdiesus (Syriac) (=BHO 375)
- The 40 Chaldean and Persian martyrs (Syriac) (=BHO 5)
- Badimus (Syriac) (=BHO 131)
- Acepsimas, Joseph, and Aeithalas (Syriac) (=BHO 22)
- Behnam and Sara (Syriac) (=BHO 177)
- Qardag (Kardag) (Syriac) (=BHO 55-56)
- The story of the city of Bet-Seleucia (Syriac) (=BHO 705)
- Jacob Intercisus (Syriac) (=BHO 394)
- Pethion, Yazdin, Adurhormizd, and Anahid (Syriac) (=BHO 923)
- Yazdin, Pethion (Syriac) (=BHO 434)
- Yazdin (Syriac) (=BHO 434)
- Pethion and Adurhormizd (Syriac) (=BHO 25)
- Pethion and Anahid (Syriac) (=BHO 47)
- Pethion (Syriac) (=BHO 923)
- Babai (Syriac) (=BHO 1049-50)
- Mar Saba (Syriac) (=BHO 1029-30)
- The alteration of St. Peter with Nero (Syriac) (=BHO 937)
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- Lucianus and Marcianus (Syriac) (=BHO 572)
- Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudianus, Diodorus, Sarapion, and Papius (Syriac) (=BHO 1245)
- Stratonice and Seleucus (Syriac) (=BHO 1103)
- The Seven Martyrs: Hyperechius, Philotheus, and the rest (Syriac) (=BHO 388)
- Hagne (Agnes) the Virgin (Syriac) (=BHO 34)
- Theodota the Prostitute (Syriac) (=BHO 1179)
- Bishop John and Jacob the Elder (Syriac) (=BHO 500)
- Abraham, Bishop of Arbela (Syriac) (=BHO 12)
- Hanania the Layman (Syriac) (=BHO 372)
- Aeithalas the Priest and Hapsai the Deacon (Syriac) (=BHO 29)
- Jacob the Elder and Azad the Deacon, (Syriac) (=BHO 423)
- Gobrelaha (Gobdelaas) (Syriac) (=BHO 325)
- Mar Badai the Elder (Syriac) (=BHO 130)
- The Gelonian Persian Martyrs (Syriac) (=BHO 180; 1043)
- Narsai the Son of the Covenant (Syriac) (=BHO 786)
- Tatak (Syriac) (=BHO 1139)
- 10 Martyrs of Beth-Garmai (Syriac) (=BHO 387)
- Jacob the Guard (Syriac) (=BHO 412)
- St. Christina (Syriac) (=BHO 187)
- Mar Phineas (Syriac) (=BHO 989)
- Mar Daro (Dado) (Syriac) (=BHO 240)
- Mar Saba (Pirgusnasp) (Syriac) (=BHO 1031)
- Mar Abda and His Friends (Syriac) (=BHO 6)
- Perozes (Firuzes) (Syriac) (=BHO 921)
- Mar Jacob, Bishop of Nisibis (Syriac) (=BHO 405-406)
- Babola (Babylas) (Syriac) (=BHO 128)
- Nicolaus (Syriac) (=BHO 810)
- John the Compassionate (Syriac) (=BHO 511)
- Bishop Rabbula of Urhoy (Syriac) (=BHO 1023)
- Admonitions to Monks (Syriac)
- Admonitions to Priests and Sons of the Covenant (Syriac)
- A Letter of the Blessed Rabble (Syriac)
- A Letter of the Blessed Cyril to Mar Rabbula (Syriac)
- A Homily (Turgama) that Bishop Rabbula Spoke in the Church of Constantinople (Syriac)
- Intercessions of Mar Rabbula (Syriac)
- A Metrical Homily (Memra) about Mar Bassus and Shushan His Sister (Syriac) (=BHO 174)
- A Story about Mar Bassus (Syriac) (=BHO 176)
- Another Story about Mar Bassus (Syriac) (=BHO 175)
- Mar Simeon (Symeon) the Stylite (Syriac) (=BHO 1121) (ET)
- A Letter of Quzma the Elder to Mar Simeon (Symeon) the Stylite (Syriac)
- A Metrical Homily (Memra) of Mar Jacob about the Holy Mar Simeon (Symeon) the Stylite (Syriac) (=BHO 1126)
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- Mar Clement of Rome, Disciple of Simon Peter (Syriac) (=BHO 204)
- Mar Onesimus (Syriac) (=BHO 817)
- Sophia and Her Daughters (Syriac) (=BHO 1082-84)
- Mar Charius and His Colleagues (Syriac) (=BHO 186)
- Polycarp of Smyrna (Syriac) (=BHO 998)
- Mar Acacius (Syriac) (=BHO 20-21)
- Gregory of Neocaesaria (Gregory Thaumaturgus) (Syriac) (=BHO 356)
- Mar Qozma (Cosmas) and Damianus (Syriac) (=BHO 210)
- Eudoxius and His Colleagues (Syriac) (=BHO 280)
- Theoponpus (Theopompus) and His Colleagues (Syriac) (=BHO 1182)
- Probus, Tarachus, and Andronichus (Syriac) (=BHO 1001)
- A Questioning which [Maximus] Asked Him in the City of Mopsuestia (Syriac) (=BHO 1001)
- A Third Questioning in the City of Anazarbus (Syriac) (=BHO 1001)
- Leontius and Publius (Syriac) (=BHO 563)
- Eusebius Bishop of Rome (Syriac) (=BHO 293)
- The Translation of St. Amphilochius, the Bishop of Iconicum, who made it for St. Basil, the Bishop of Caesarea of Cappadocia (Syriac) (=BHO 170)
- Mar Eusebius of Samosata (Syriac) (=BHO 294)
- A Letter of Gregory the Theologian to Eusebius, Bishop of Samosata (Syriac)
- Another [Letter] to Bishop Eusebius (Syriac)
- Mar Julian Saba (Syriac) (=BHO 553)
- Mar Andronichus and Athanasia His Wife (Syriac) (=BHO 59)
- Eleutherius and His Colleagues (Syriac) (=BHO 266)
- Mar Mama and His Parents (Syriac) (=BHO 591)
- Mar Dyonisius of Athens (Syriac) (=BHO 255)
- Mar Athanasius, the Archbishop of Alexandria (Syriac) (=BHO 114)
- Mar Julius, the Bishop of Rome (Syriac) (=BHO p. 124)
- Mar Gregory, the Bishop of Nyssa (Syriac) (=BHO p. 81)
- Mar Gregory the Theologian of Nazianzus (Syriac) (=BHO 359)
- John Chrysostom (Syriac) (=BHO 508)
- Mar Cyril, the Patriarch of Alexandria (Syriac) (=BHO 237)
- Abraham Kidunaya (Syriac) (=BHO 16-17)
- Theodore Stratelates (Syriac) (=BHO 1165)
- Mar Domet (Dometius) (Syriac) (=BHO 263)
- Abhai, the Bishop of Nicaea (Syriac) (=BHO 10)
- Pelagia (Syriac) (=BHO 919)
- A Metrical Homily (Memra) of Mar Jacob about the Victorius Mar Sergius and Bacchus (Syriac) (=BHO 1054)
- A Metrical Homily (Memra) of Mar Jacob about the 40 Holy Martyrs (Syriac) (=BHO 714)
- A Metrical Homily (Memra) of Mar Jacob about the Departed (Syriac) (=BHO 714)
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- Part 1: Palladius, Lausaic History, section 1 (=BHO 846-853)
- Male Ascetics
- About a Certain Monk in Ancyra (Syriac)
- About the Blessed John of Lycus (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Posidonius (Syriac)
- About Chronius of Phoenice (Syriac)
- About Jacob the Lame (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Solomon (Syriac)
- About Dorotheus, the Elder (Syriac)
- About Diocles (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Capito (Syriac)
- About a Certain Monk who Fell (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Ephrem, the Deacon of the Church of Urhay (Syriac)
- About Innocentius, the Elder (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Elpidius (Syriac)
- About Eustathius (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Sisinnius (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Gaddai (Gaddanus), the Palestinian (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Elijah (Syriac)
- About Sabat (Sabas) the Layman from Jericho (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Sarapion of Sedona (Syriac)
- Stories about the Holy Women (Syriac)
- About the Virgin who Hid Athanasius the Great (Syriac)
- About Piamon the Virgin (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Amantalida (Talis) (Syriac)
- About Timirion (Timiron, Taor) (Syriac)
- About a Certain Virgin and Martyr, Coluthus (Syriac)
- About a Certain Virgin and about Magistianus (Syriac)
- About St. Melania the Great (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Melania the Lesser (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Olympias (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Candida (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Gelasia (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Juliana (Syriac)
- About Heronius (Verus) and His Wife (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Magna (Syriac)
- The Beginning of the Stories
- About Isidorus (Syriac)
- Dorotheus (Syriac)
- A Young Virgin, [Potamiaena] (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Didymus (Syriac)
- About the Virgin, Alexandra (Syriac)
- About Abba Macarius and about a Certain Virgin (Syriac)
- About the Monks of Nitria (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Amon the Great (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Abba Or (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Pambo (Panbo) (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Bishop Ammonius (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Benjamin (Syriac)
- About Apollonius the Merchant (Syriac)
- About the Physical Brothers, Paisius and Isaiah (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Macarius (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Mar Nathaniel (Syriac)
- About the Two Blessed Ones: Macarius the Egyptian and Macarius the Alexandrian (Syriac)
- About Macarius the Egyptian (Syriac)
- About Macarius the Alexandrian (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Paul the Simple (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Pachomius (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Stephen (Syriac)
- Those who Fell into Sinful Traps (Syriac)
- About Valens the Palestinian (Syriac)
- About Aaron the Alexandrian (Syriac)
- About Ptolemaeus (Syriac)
- About Abraham the Egyptian (Syriac)
- About a Certain Virgin in Jerusalem (Syriac)
- A Virgin who Fell and Returned (Syriac)
- About a Virgin who was in Caesarea Palestina (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Taisia (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Abba Elijah (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Dorotheus (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Pachomius the Great (Syriac)
- A Defense and Preparation with an Exhortation (Syriac)
- Introductory Matter
- A Letter of Palladius, Bishop of Helenopolis, to Lausa (Syriac)
- About the Goal of the Book (Syriac)
- [The Book's] counsels (Syriac)
- Palladius, Lausaic History, section 2 (Syriac) (=BHO 854-56)
- Mark the Monk (The Mourner) (Syriac)
- The Blessed Olog (Eulogius) (Syriac)
- A Certain Alexandrian Boy (or: A Certain Alexandrian Layperson) (Syriac)
- A Disciple of Sabas who was in Scete (Syriac)
- A Disciple of Sabas Dwelling in a Cell (Syriac)
- A Disciple of Sabas Living in the Desert (Syriac)
- Peter, the Disciple of One of the Elders (Syriac)
- A Disciple of One of the Elders (Syriac)
- About Aurelius (Syriac)
- About Abba Moses the Indian [who came] from Thieves (Syriac)
- About Abba Pior (Syriac)
- About Abba Moses the Lybian (Syriac)
- About that Changing of His Lamp (Syriac)
- The Blessed Evagrius (Syriac)
- Mark (or Malchus), the Solitary (Syriac) (=BHO 585)
- About Two of the Fathers who were Sent (Syriac)
- About a Certain Elder who was Sent (Syriac)
- About a Certain Naked Elder who was Grazing with the Animals (Syriac)
- About Another of the Saints (Syriac)
- About a Certain Solitary who was Grazing on Grass by the Jordan (Syriac)
- About a Certain Holy Virgin (Syriac)
- About Two Young Brothers who were with Macarius (Syriac)
- About Abba Bessarion (Syriac)
- About the Miracles which Abba Bessarion Did (Syriac)
- The Nine Virtues of a Certain One of the Saints (Syriac)
- About the Blessed Maria (Syriac)
- A Story about One of the Elders, about the Observance of the Mind (Syriac)
- About Two Brothers who were Dwelling in the Monastery of the House of the Persians (Syriac)
- About a Certain Virgin who Grew Old in the Disciplines of Piety (Syriac)
- About a Certain Stephanus who Fell by Shameful Wantonness (Syriac)
- About Eucharpius (Syriac)
- About a Certain Famous Deacon Dwelling in a Coenobium in Egypt (Syriac)
- About a Bishop who Fell with a Prostitute (Syriac)
- Another about a Certain Brother, a Neighbor of Abba Poimen (Syriac)
- About a Certain Brother who Apostatized because of a Daughter of a Priest (Syriac)
- About a Certain Old Man who was in Scete (Syriac)
- About that Prostitute whom Sarapion Taught (Syriac)
- About the Prostitute that Podiaqnos Expelled from the Church (Syriac)
- Concerning Abba Apollo, that One in Scete (Syriac)
- About Cosmas (Qozma) on Mt. Sinai (Syriac)
- About Abba Macarius who was Accused by a Prostitute (Syriac)
- About the Elder who was Saying that Melchizedek is the Son of God (Syriac)
- About Abba Macarius the Egyptian (Syriac)
- About the Story [of Abba Macarius the Egyptian] (Syriac)
- About Abba Mark the Lesser, the Disciple of Abba Silvanus (Syriac)
- Abba Paulus the Simple, Disciple of Mar Anthony (Syriac)
- About the Writer, Palladius, and about a Certain Blessed Brother (Syriac)
- Paradise of the Fathers Part 2: A History of the Monks of Egypt Ascribed to Jerome (Syriac) (=BHO 843)
- An Apology (Syriac)
- John of Lycus (Syriac)
- The Holy Abba Or (Syriac)
- Abba Ammon (Syriac)
- Abba Abn (Benus) (Syriac)
- The Story of the Disciplines of the Brothers in the City of Oxyrhynchus (Syriac)
- Abba Theon (Syriac)
- Abba Elijah (Syriac)
- Apollo and Ammon (Syriac)
- Another of Abba Apelles (Syriac)
- Another of a Different Apollo and John in the Desert (Syriac)
- Another of Abba Paphnutius, the Spiritual Merchant (Syriac)
- The Blessed Olog (Eulogius) (Syriac)
- Another of Abba Isidorus (Syriac)
- Dioscorus (Syriac)
- Corpres and the Blessed Patermuthius (Syriac)
- The Household of Abba Or and Isaiah and Paul and Anuph (Nophi) (Syriac)
- Evagrius (Syriac)
- Another of Abba Pithyrion (Syriac)
- The Victories of the Blessed Fathers (Syriac)
- Another Common Victory for the Brothers of Nitria (Syriac)
- The First Ammon (Syriac)
- A Different Abba Ammon in Nitria (Syriac)
- Didymus (Syriac)
- Chronius (Chronidus) (Syriac)
- The Three Brothers (Syriac)
- Philemon (Syriac)
- John (Syriac)
- Sarapion (Syriac)
- Apollo the Lesser, the Reader and Martyr (Syriac)
- The Paradise of the Fathers, Part 3: numerous apophthegmata (Syriac) (=BHO 846-66; 879)
- Part 1: The Teaching of the Holy Fathers (Syriac)
- About the Flight from Humanity and Silence and Constancy in the Cell (Syriac)
- About Fasting and the Nazarite Vow and the Rest of the Labors (Syriac)
- About the Reading of the Scriptures, Vigils, the Service of the Psalms and Constant Prayers (Syriac)
- About How It is Fitting for Us to Weep and Mourn over Our Sins Always (Syriac)
- About Voluntary Poverty (Syriac)
- About Continence (Syriac)
- About Obedience Toward God and Our Fathers (Syriac)
- About Diligent Care with Our Thoughts and Our Words and Our Deeds (Syriac)
- About Love and Compassion and Hospitality (Syriac)
- About Humility and How One should Despise Himself and Think Himself Lower than Every Person (Syriac)
- About the Battle with the Passion of Fornication (Syriac)
- About Acceptable Repentance and How it is Right for Us to Return Truly (Syriac)
- About the Fathers Working Miracles (Syriac)
- About the Greatness of the Preeminent Way of Solitude (Syriac)
- Part 2: Ascetic Commentary and Common Stories (Syriac) (=BHO 864-66)
- Questions and Answers about Holy Disciplines (Syriac)
- Here there ends 1000 Questions and Answers in the Third Division of Palladius (Syriac)
- Further Examples for the Weak and the Idle and for Those Who cannot Care for Themselves (Syriac)
- Another Toward the Lovers of Vainglory and Those Becoming Proud of Their Righteousness (Syriac)
- Toward that One Who is not Careful with His Tongue (Syriac)
- Another Toward Those Who have Authority over Evil Thoughts yet Evil Deliberations Come to Mind (Syriac)
- Another Toward That One who cannot Withhold Himself from Anger and Wrath and Who Holds a Grudge in His Heart against a Brother (Syriac)
- Another Toward the Variety of the Evil Will of People, Those Who Reject the Benevolence Done to Them (Syriac)
- The Counsels of Admonition (Syriac)
- Further Questions of the Brothers and the Answer of the Words of the Elders Who were Exceedingly Beautiful and Praiseworthy (Syriac)
- Another about Martinianus (Syriac)
- Further Questions about the Vision of the Mind (Syriac)
- Part 3: A Few Examples (Syriac) (=BHO 864-66)
- Appendix
- Another Praise of the Monks of Egypt Done by Bishop John of Constantinople (John Chrysostom) (Syriac)
- Another Story of the Fathers (of Abraham of Nathpar) (Syriac)
- Variants (Syriac)
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- Life of Habib
- Life of Z’ura
- Life of John the Nazirite
- Lives of Abraham and Maro
- Lives of Simeon and Sergius
- Life of Paul the Anchorite
- Life of Abraham the Recluse
- Life of Addai the chorepiscopus
- Life of Mare of Beth Urtaye
- Life of Simeon the Bishop
- Life of Harfat
- Lives of Mary and Euphemia
- Lives of Thomas and Stephen the notaries and syncelli of Mare of Amid
- Life of Abbi
- Lives of Two Monks
- Life of Simeon the Mountaineer
- Of a stranger who would not give his name
- Of a monk who left a convent without being released
- Life of Zacharias
- Of a monk from the same convent as Zacharias and about Sound Training
- Life of Thomas the Armenian
- Lives of Addai and Abraham
- Life of Simeon the Solitary
- Life of John of Thella
- Life of John of Hephaestopolis
- Life of Thomas of Damascus
- Life of Susan the Virgin
- Life of Mary the anchorite
- Life of Malkha the mendicant and stranger
- Life of Elijah of Dara
- Lives of Elijah and Theodore
- Of a monk who stole
- Life of Hala
- Life of Simeon the Scribe
- Of the Amidene convents
- Life of Mare the Solitary
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- Life of Aaron
- Life of Leontius
- Life of Abraham the presbyter
- Lives of Bassian and Romanus
- Lives of Mar, Sergius, and Daniel
- Lives of four deacons
- Life of Tribunus
- Life of Isaac
- Life of Paul of Antioch
- Of the refugees in Constantinople
- Lives of five patriarchs
- Life of James
- Lives of James and Theodore
- Life of Kashish
- Lives of two Antiochenes
- Life of Priscus
- Life of Caesaria
- Lives of John and Sosiana
- Lives of Peter and Photius
- Life of Theodore the castrensis
- History of the Convent of John Urtaya
- Appendix: Spurious life of James
- Appendix: translation of the relics of James
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Table of Contents
- I. Synodal Letter of Theodosius of Alexandria, the Patriarch, to Severus, Patriarch of Antioch (Syriac)
- II. Synodal Letter of Severus to Theodosius (Syriac)
- III. Letter of Theodosius of Alexandria against Tritheites (Syriac)
- IV. Homily (attached to the prior letter) delivered in Constinople by the same Theodosius, on the right faith, that is, what is not permitted to profess on the number of essences, or natures, in the Trinity; and that one from the Trinity, the Divine Word was incarnate–not the Father, nor the Holy Spirit (Syriac)
- V. Letter of Theodosius containing five ecclesiastical canons on the same argument (Syriac)
- VI. A copy of signatures made by the priests dwelling in Constantinople who profess to adhere to the doctrine of Theodosius (Syriac)
- VII. The Letter of Theodosius to Jacob Burd'oyo [Baradae], Qonon of Tarsus, Eugenius of Seleucia in Isauria, and other eastern bishops (Syriac)
- VIII. Letter of Theodosius to the eastern bishops on the instution of Paul the Patriarch of Antioch in place of Sergius (Syriac)
- IX. The letter written by the eastern bishops (Jacob, Eugenius, Eunomius) to Patriarch Theodosius (Syriac)
- X. Letter of Theodore, an eastern bishop, to Paul, the Patriarch of Antioch (Syriac)
- XI. Letter of Patriarch Theodosius to the orthodox bishops of the east (Syriac)
- XII. The synodal letter of Paul, the Patriarch of Antioch, to Theodosius the Patriarch of Alexandria (Syriac)
- XIII. The synodal letter of Theodosius to Paul (Syriac)
- XIV. Letter of many eastern archimandrites to Theodosius of Alexandria (Syriac)
- XV. Letter of the eastern archimandrites to Paul of Antioch (Syriac)
- XVI. The first Ἀνατολικόν of Theodosius of Alexandria to Paul of Antioch (Syriac)
- XVII. The second Ἀνατολικόν of Theodosius of Alexandria to Paul of Antioch (Syriac)
- XVIII. The third Ἀνατολικόν of Theodosius of Alexandria to Paul of Antioch (Syriac)
- XIX. The letter of Theodosius to John, Leonidus, and Joseph, bishops of Egypt (Syriac)
- XX. Letter of Theodosius to Theodore (Syriac)
- XXI. Letter of Theodosius to the people of Alexandria (Syriac)
- XXII. Letter of Aretas the Patrician to Jacob Burd'oyo [Baradae] (Syriac)
- XXIII. Letter of Jacob Burd'oyo [Baradae] to Eunomius the bishop (Syriac)
- XXIV. Letter of the orthodox bishops of Constantinople to the orthodox bishops, archimandrites, presbyters, deacons, subdeacons, readers and all the faithful people of the east (Syriac)
- XXV. Copy of the συνδοκτικοῦ (or pact) made between Alexandria and the imperial city, between the orthodox bishops and the supporters of Qonon (Syriac)
- XXVI. Second copy of the allocutions, or προσφωνήσεως of those living in Constantinople between the orthodox bishops and the supports of Qonon and Eugenius (Syriac)
- XXVII. Copy of the anathemas against John Grammaticus (Philoponus) (Syriac)
- XXVIII. First copy of the συνδοκτικοῦ from the eastern archimandrites made after the death of Patriarch Theodosius (Syriac)
- XXIX. Letter of Bishops Jacob and Theodore to the orthodox monks (Syriac)
- XXX. Second copy of the συνδοκτικοῦ made by the eastern archimandrites (Syriac)
- XXXI. Letter of many of the eastern archimandrites to Bishop Jacob (Syriac)
- XXXII. Response of Patriarch Paul to Bishops Jacob and Theodore (Syriac)
- XXXIII. Response of Jacob and Theodore to Patriarch Paul (Syriac)
- XXXIV. Letter of the eastern archimandrites to the orthodox bishops and clerics living in Constantinople (Syriac)
- XXXV. Letter of Jacob to Qonon and Eugenius (Syriac)
- XXXVI. Letter of Jacob to John of Ephesus and the other bishops of the east (Syriac)
- XXXVII. Letter of the eastern orthodox bishops to the orthodox bishops living in Constantinople (Syriac)
- XXXVIII. Letter by the orthodox bishops to the orthodox of various eparchies (Syriac)
- XXXIX. Letter of the orthodox bishops to the clarics and people of Arabia (Syriac)
- XL. Letter of the people of Arabia to the orthodox bishops and clerics (Syriac)
- XLI. The solution to the objections (which John Claudus, fomerly archimandrite of the Mar Bassus monastery, proposed to John Saba) about the election of Paul the Patriarch of Antioch, drafted by Sergius the recluse (Syriac)
- XLII. Synodal letter of Theodore the Patriarch of Alexandria to Paul, the Patriarch of Antioch (Syriac)
- XLIII. Synodal letter of Paul of Antioch to Theodore of Alexandria (Syriac)
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- Read Cowper's review for partial translations of some of these texts:
- Sixtus/Xystus, Bishop of Rome, Select Words (Gnomai)
- Gregory the Wonder Worker, From his homily to Gainos, on that the soul is simple and is not made up of separated parts; it is not compound and it is indissoluble. For this reason, it is incorruptible and immortal
- Julius, Bishop of Rome, A Letter
- Hippolytos, Commentary on Daniel the Prophet
- Excerpts from Diodore of Tarsus
- Theodore of Mopsuestia, Excerpt from his book On the Incarnation
- George, Bishop of the Arab Tribes, Letter to Joshua the Recluse, in answer to Questions
- Aristotle, On the World, to Alexander (Translated by Sergios of Reshayna)
- Socrates, On the Soul
- Isocrates, To Demonikos
- Plutarch, On exercise
- Plutarch, On Passion
- Pythagoras, Sentences
- Diklios (Diocles?) the Wise, A writing
- Vita of Alexander the King of the Macedonians
(Linked here by permission of the author, who holds the copyright.)
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- Clement of Rome, From his Second Epistle to the Corinthians
- Polycarp
- Justin Martyr, On the Orthodox Faith
- Irenaeus of Lyon
- Melito, On Faith
- Hippolytos, Fragments
- Sextus Julius Africanus, Fragment on the Appearance of Moses and Elijah to our Lord
- Cyprian, Fragments
- Gregory the Wonderworker, Fragments
- Dionysios of Alexandria, Excerpts from Letters, including letters to several bishops of Rome and to Paul of Samosata
- Excerpts on the Condemnation of Paul of Samosata
- Peter of Alexandria, Fragments
- Alexander of Alexandria, Fragments
- Methodios, Philosopher, Bishop and Martyr, Fragments
- Eustathios of Antioch, Fragments
- Serapion, Bishop of Thmuis, Homily on Virginity
- Canons of the Council of Ancyra
- Canons of the Council of Neo-Cesarea
- Council of Nicaea, History and Canons
- Letter of Dionysios the Areopagite to Timothy, concerning the martyrdom of Peter and Paul
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- Epistle of Jacob, Bp of Jerusalem, to Quadratus, concerning what Tiberius Caesar ordered concerning the Jews who crucified Christ and covered up his resurrection
- The Discovery of the Head of Paul the Apostle
- The Account that is Placed at the Beginning of the Book of Paul the Apostle
- The Martyrdom of Paul the Apostle that Took Place in Rome at the Hand of Nero
- The Placing on of Hands that has been Passed Down in the World, Person by Person, from the Apostles
- Ephrem, On Types that Illustrate the Trinity
- Ephrem, An Alphabetical Acrostic of Admonitions
- Ephrem, Memra against Bar Daysan
- Ephrem, Sogyatha on the Soul
- Jacob of Edessa, A Letter to John the Stylite [of Litarb], answering questions
- Isaac the Teacher, The Conclusion of a Memra on Faith
- Isaac the Teacher, Another Fragment
- Isaac the Teacher, Another Fragment
- A letter which was written by the holy bishops of the Orthodox to the monks of the congregation of Amid and all their jurisdiction [Against Julian of Halicarnassus]
- Daniel of Salah, Book of the Interpretation of the Psalms
- Athanasios Gamolo, Letter to the Monks of Mar Mattai
- A Narrative that was Discovered in the Monastery of Mar Mattai
- Life of Isaac of Nineveh
- Life of John of Dalyatha, from his Monastery, in Qardu
- Life of John bar Penkaye
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- Rule for How a Bishop Should Enter a City
- Chapters Which were Written by the Easterners who Presented Their Questions to the Holy Fathers and who had Answers in the Following Way[Liturgical Questions and Answers]
- Rite and Canons of the Consecration of a Holy Church
- Anthimios, Bishop of Constantinople, Letter to Jacob [Baradaeus], Bishop of Edessa
- Severos of Antioch, From Cathedral Homily 125, concerning, "Holy are You, God, Holy are you, Almighty, etc."
- Severos of Antioch, From Cathedral Homily 84, which is about Basil the Great and Gregory
- Severos of Antioch, From Cathedral Homily 74
- Severos of Antioch, From Cathedral Homily 92, Concerning the Ninth Hour on the Friday after Pentecost
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- Anonymous work on heresies
- Severos of Antioch, Homily 119, concerning the diputation against the Roman
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- Lucian, On that one should not accept slanders against friends
- Themistios, On Virtue, that is, the excellence of the soul
- Themistios, On Love
- Plato, Definitions
- Plato, Command to his Student
- Theano, The Counsel of the Pythagorean Philosopher Theano
- Sayings of the Philosophers concerning the Soul
- Choice Statements of the Philosophers about Upright Living (from Isocrates and Menander)
- Counsels of the Philosophers
- Life of Secundus the Silent Philosopher
- Fragments of Galen
- Sergios of Resh’ayna, On How One Can Know the Activity of the Moon, According to the Doctrine of the Astronomers
- Sergios of Resh’ayna, Exposition on the Movement of the Sun
- Severos Sebokht, A Chapter on the Inhabited and Uninhabited Earth and About the Order of those who Dwell on its Entire Circumference, Above and Below
Individual Saints' Lives
(in alphabetical order by name of saint)
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Apphianus/Appian (d. 306) [Back to Top]
- P. Bedjan, Ed., Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum: Tomus Primus, vol. 1, 7 vol. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890.
- J. S. Assemani, Ed., Acta sanctorum martyrum Orientalium et Occidentalium in duas partes distributa, adcedunt Acta S. Simeonis Stylitae, vol. 2, 2 vol. Rome: Joseph Collins, 1748.
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Ephrem the Syrian (d. 378) [Back to Top]
- T. J. Lamy, Sancti Ephraem Syri hymni et sermones quos e codicibus Londinensibus, Parisiensibus et Oxoniensibus descriptos edidit, Latinitate donavit, variis lectionibus instruxit, notis et prolegomenis illustravit (2), vol. 2, 4 vol. Mechliniae: H. Dessain, 1890.
- J. S. Assemani, Ed., Bibliotheca Orientalis, vol. 1, 3 vol. Rome: Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 1719.
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Isaac of Nineveh (7th century) [Back to Top]
- I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis: Documenta varia, vol. 1, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1904.
- J. S. Assemani, Ed., Bibliotheca Orientalis, vol. 1, 3 vol. Rome: Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 1719.
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Jacob Baradaeus (d. 578) [Back to Top]
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1. Vita:
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2. How Jacob Baradaeus’ Bones Were Taken from the Monastery of Casion by the Monks of Pesilta, by Kyriakos of Amid