Severus of Antioch

Homilies of Severus of Antioch

Ecclesiastical Affiliation

Syriac Orthodox

Century 

6th Century (d. 538)

Reference Works

GEDSH 368-369

CPG 7035

BHO 1060-1064

Homilies

Cathedral Homilies

CPG 7035

Homilies 1-17

Brière, Maurice, and François Graffin, eds. Les Homiliae cathedrales de Sévère d'Antioche: Homélies I à XVII. Translated by Maurice Brière and François Graffin. Patrologia Orientalis 175 (38.2). Turnhout: Brepols, 1976.

Homilies 18-25

Brière, Maurice, and François Graffin, eds. Les Homiliae cathedrales de Sévère d'Antioche: Homélies XVIII à XXV. Translated by Maurice Brière and François Graffin. Patrologia Orientalis 171 (37.1). Turnhout: Brepols, 1975.

Homilies 26-31

Brière, Maurice, and François Graffin, eds. Les Homiliae cathedrales de Sévère d'Antioche: Homélies XXVI à XXXI. Translated by Maurice Brière and François Graffin. Patrologia Orientalis 170 (36.4). Turnhout: Brepols, 1975.

Homilies 32-39

Brière, Maurice, and François Graffin, eds. Les Homiliae cathedrales de Sévère d'Antioche: Homélies XXXII à XXXIX. Translated by Maurice Brière and François Graffin. Patrologia Orientalis 169 (36.3). Turnhout: Brepols, 1972.

Homilies 40-45

Brière, Maurice, and François Graffin, eds. Les Homiliae cathedrales de Sévère d'Antioche: Homélies XL à XLV. Translated by Maurice Brière and François Graffin. Patrologia Orientalis 167 (36.1). Turnhout: Brepols, 1971.

Homilies 46-51

Brière, Maurice, and François Graffin, eds. Les Homiliae cathedrales de Sévère d'Antioche: Homélies XLVI à LI. Translated by Maurice Brière and François Graffin. Patrologia Orientalis 165 (35.3). Turnhout: Brepols, 1969.

Homilies 52-57

Duval, Rubens, ed. Les Homiliae cathedrales de Sévère d'Antioche: Homélies LII à LVII.Translated by Rubens Duval. Patrologia Orientalis 15 (4.1). Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1906.

Homilies 58-69

Brière, Maurice, ed. Les Homiliae cathedrales de Sévère d'Antioche: Homélies LVIII à LXIX. Translated by Maurice Brière. Patrologia Orientalis 37 (8.2). Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1912.

Homilies 70-76

Brière, Maurice, ed. Les Homiliae cathedrales de Sévère d'Antioche: Homélies LXX à LXXVI. Translated by Maurice Brière. Patrologia Orientalis 57 (12.1). Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1915.

Homily 77

Kugener, M.-A., and E. Triffaux, eds., Les Homiliae cathedrales de Sévère d'Antioche: Homélies LXXVII. Translated by M.-A. Kugener and E. Triffaux. Patrologia Orientalis 81 (16.5). Turnhout: Brepols, 1924.

Homilies 78-83

Brière, Maurice, ed. Les Homiliae cathedrales de Sévère d'Antioche: Homélies LXXVIII à LXXXIII. Translated by Maurice Brière. Patrologia Orientalis 97 (20.2). Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1927.

Homilies 84-90

Brière, Maurice, ed. Les Homiliae cathedrales de Sévère d'Antioche: Homélies LXXXIV à XC. Translated by Maurice Brière. Patrologia Orientalis 112 (23.1). Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1931.

Homilies 91-98

Brière, Maurice, ed. Les Homiliae cathedrales de Sévère d'Antioche: Homélies XCI à XCVIII. Translated by Maurice Brière. Patrologia Orientalis 121 (25.1). Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1943.

Homilies 99-103

Guidi, Ignazio, ed. Les Homiliae cathedrales de Sévère d'Antioche: Homélies XCIX à CIII. Translated by Ignazio Guidi. Patrologia Orientalis 108 (22.2). Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1930.

Homilies 104-112

Brière, Maurice, ed. Les Homiliae cathedrales de Sévère d'Antioche: Homélies CIV à CXII Translated by Maurice Brière. Patrologia Orientalis 124 (25.4). Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1943.

Homilies 113-119

Brière, Maurice, ed. Les Homiliae cathedrales de Sévère d'Antioche: Homélies CXIII à CXIX. Translated by Maurice Brière. Patrologia Orientalis 127 (26.3). Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1948.

Homilies 120-125

Brière, Maurice, ed. Les Homiliae cathedrales de Sévère d'Antioche: Homélies CXX à CXXV. Translated by Maurice Brière. Patrologia Orientalis 138 (29.1). Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1960.

Sermon after he became Patriarch

CPG 7036

Kugener, M.-A. "Allocution pronuncée par Sévère après son élévation sur le trône patriarcal d'Antioche." Oriens Christianus 2, no. 1 (1902):265-282.

Kugener, M.-A. Vie de Sévère, par Jean, supérieur du monastère de Beith Aphthonia. Patrologia Orientalis 2.3 (8). Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1907. Pages 238-241.

Recension: On the Holy Great Lent

Bcheiry, Iskandar. "Repentance and Fasting from an Ascetical Perspective: A Comparative Reading of Jacob of Serugh and an Unpublished Shortened Version of Homilies by Severus of Antioch." In Jacob of Serugh and His times: Studies in Sixth-Century Syriac Christianity, edited by George Anton Kiraz, 1-37. Gorgias Easter Christian Studies 8. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2010. Pages 11-27 contain a translation and edition of a shortened version of Cathedral Homilies 15, 39, 66, and 68. This appears in Trinity College, Dublin, MS 1511/2, fols. 2v-6v. This part of the manuscript dates to the ninth or tenth centuries.

Further Bibliography and Notes

Guide to Homilies

Alpi, Frédéric. La route royale: Sévère d'Antioche et les églises d'Orient (512-518). 2 vols. Bibliothèque archéologique et historique 188. Beirut: Institut français du Proche-Orient, 2009. Pages 1:188-193.

Chalcedon in Syriac Perspective

Works Cited

General

Historical background

Doctrinal History

Some Non-Chalcedonian and Modern Ecumenical Approaches

Doctrinal Positions of the Syriac Churches

Non-Chalcedonian:
Reject Chalcedon (451)
Accept Ephesus I & II
Chalcedonian:
Reject Ephesus II (449)
Non-Chalcedonian:
Reject Ephesus I (432) & II
Ambivalent over Chalcedon
  MARONITE  
  MELKITE  
SYRIAN ORTHODOX SYRIAN CATHOLIC  
  SYRO-MALANKARA (India)  
  CHALDEAN CHURCH OF THE EAST
  SYRO-MALABAR (India)  

Syriac translations of technical terms

Shifts in Translation Practice

(A)

  1. ܠܒܫ ܦܓܪܐ (lbesh pagra) “he put on a body”
  2. ܐܬܓܫܡ (’ethgashsham) “he was embodied”
  3. ܐܬܒܣܪ (’ethbassar) “he was enfleshed”

(B)

  1. ܒܪ ܟܝܢܐ (bar kyana) “of the same nature” (lit. “son of the nature”).
  2. ܒܪ ܐܝܬܘܬܐ (bar ’ithutha) “of the same being”
  3. ܫܘܐ ܒܐܝܬܘܬܐ (shawe b-’ithutha) “equal in being”
  4. ܫܘܐ ܒܐܘܣܝܐ (shawe b-’usya) “equal in ousia

Standard Sixth-Century Equivalents

  • Transliterated (or ܐܝܬܘܬܐ=’ithutha, esp. in East Syriac texts)
  • ܟܝܢܐ (kyana) “nature”.
  • ܩܢܘܡܐ (qnoma) “hypostasis, self”, etc.
  • Transliterated ܦܪܨܘܦܐ (parsopa)

NB: to Syrian Orthodox ܟܝܢܐ (kyana) is very close in meaning to ܩܢܘܡܐ (qnoma); but to Church of the East ܟܝܢܐ (kyana) is very close in meaning to ܐܘܣܝܐ ܠܐܝܬܘܬܐ (ousia / ’ithutha), while ܩܢܘܡܐ (qnoma) almost has the sense of “particularity” (Syrian Orthodox ܕܝܠܝܬܐ (dilayta)). For general developments in translation practice see S. P. Brock, Towards a History of Syriac Translation Technique, in Studies in Syriac christianity: history, literature and theology, Aldershot: Variorum, 2001.

Syrian Orthodox

Main Texts

Severus

Philoxenus

Jacob of Serugh

Various Authors

Some Secondary Literature

Church of the East

Main texts

Narsai

Cyrus of Edessa

Babai the Great

Isho‘yahb II

Martyrios/Sahdona

Isho‘yahb III

Synods

Some Secondary Literature

The Aftermath Of Chalcedon: Christology In The Sixth Century

Doctrinal Positions

Non-Chalcedonian:
Alexandrine
Reject Chalcedon (451)
Accept Ephesus I & II
Chalcedonian:
Reject Ephesus II (449)
Non-Chalcedonian:
Antiochene
Reject Ephesus I (431)
Ambivalent on Chalcedon
ORIENTAL ORTHODOX GREEK EAST CHURCH OF THE EAST
(Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Syrian) LATIN WEST  
  EASTERN RITE CATHOLIC  
  Chaldean  
  Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Syrian Catholic  

Some Secondary Literature

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