Aphrahat

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Syriac Text (with Latin Translation)

• J. Parisot, Aphraatis Sapientis Persae Demonstrationes, vol. 1. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1894.
• J. Parisot, Aphraatis Sapientis Persae Demonstrationes, vol. 2. Paris: Firmin-Didot et socii, 1907.

English Translation

• K. A. Valavanolickal, Aphrahat: Demonstrations, Revised., vol. 1, 2 vol. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2011.
• K. A. Valavanolickal, Aphrahat: Demonstrations, Revised., vol. 2, 2 vol. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2011.
• A. Lehto, The Demonstrations of Aphrahat the Persian Sage, vol. 27. Piscataway: Gorgias, 2010.

Partial English Translations

• Demonstrations 1, 5, 6, 8, 10, 17, 21, 22: J. Gwynn, “Aphrahat”, in A select library of Nicene and post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church : second series. Translated into English with prolegomena and explanatory notes, vol. 2, Oxford: James Parker & Company, 1898, pp. 345-412.
• Demonstrations 11–13, 15–19, 21, part of 23: J. Neusner, Aphrahat and Judaism. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999.
• Demonstrations 2 and 7: F. H. Hallock, “De caritate Translated from the Syriac of Aphraates”, Journal of the Society for Oriental Research, vol. 14, pp. 18-44, 1930.. And F. H. Hallock, “Aphraates on Penitents”, Journal of the Society for Oriental Research, vol. 16, pp. 43-56, 1932.
• Demonstration 2: L. T. Stuckenbruck, “The “Demonstration on Love” by Aphrahat the Sage: A Translation with Introduction”, in New Heaven and New Earth: Prophecy and the Millenium. Essays in Honour of Anthony Gelston, P. J. Harland and Hayward, C. T. Robert, Eds. Leiden: Brill, 1999, pp. 247-269.
• Demonstration 4: S. P. Brock, “Aphrahat Demonstration IV, on Prayer”, in The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1987, pp. 1-28.

French translation

• M. - J. Pierre, Aphraate le Sage Persan. Les Exposés (I), vol. 1, 2 vol. Paris: Éditions du Serf, 1988.
• M. - J. Pierre, Aphraate le Sage Persan. Les Exposés (II), vol. 2, 2 vol. Paris: Éditions du Serf, 1989.
  • Includes extensive introduction and bibliography.

German translation

• P. Bruns, Unterweisungen / Aphrahat; aus dem syrischen übersetzt und eingeleitet von Peter Bruns (I), vol. 1, 2 vol. Freiburg: Herder, 1991.
• P. Bruns, Unterweisungen / Aphrahat; aus dem syrischen übersetzt und eingeleitet von Peter Bruns (II), vol. 2, 2 vol. Freiburg: Herder, 1992.

Studies

• I. Hausherr, “«Aphraate»”, in Dictionnaire de Spiritualité, vol. 1, Paris: Beauchesne, 1937, pp. 746-747.
• E. J. Duncan, Baptism in the demonstrations of Aphraates the Persian sage. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1941.
• A. Vööbus, A History of Asceticism in the Syrian Orient (I), vol. 1, 3 vol. Louvain: Secretariat du Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 1958.
• J. Neusner, Aphrahat and Judaism. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999.
• R. Murray, “The Exhortation to Candidates for Ascetical Vows at Baptism in the Ancient Syrian Church”, New Testament Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 59-80, 1974.
• T. Jansma, “Aphraates' demonstration VII 18 and 20: some observations on the discourse on penance”, Parole de l'Orient, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 21-48, 1974.
• T. Baarda, “The Gospel quotations of Aphrahat the Persian sage 1”, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1975.
• R. Murray and Fischer, R. H., “Some Rhetorical Patterns in Early Syriac Literature”, in A tribute to Arthur Voobus: studies in early Christian literature and its environment, primarily in the Syrian East, Chicago: The Lutheran school of Theology at Chicago, 1977, pp. 109-131.
• G. G. Blum, “Afrahaṭ”, in Theologische Realenzyklopädie. Bd. 1, Aaron - Agende, vol. 1, Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1977, pp. 625–635.
• R. Owens, Jr., The Genesis and Exodus Citations of Aphrahat . Leiden: Brill, 1983.
• R. Murray, “Hellenistic-Jewish Rhetoric in Aphrahat”, in Symposium syriacum, vol. 3, 7 vol., R. Lavenant, Ed. Rome: Pontificium Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 1980, pp. 79-85.
• P. Bruns, Das Christusbild Aphrahats des persischen Weisen. Bonn: Borengässer, 1990.
• N. Koltun-Fromm, Jewish-christian conversation in fourth-century Persian Mesopotamia: a reconstructed conversation. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2012.
• K. A. Valavanolickal, The Use of the Gospel Parables in the Writings of Aphrahat and Ephrem. Frankfurt an Main: P. Lang, 1996.
• A. H. Becker, “Anti-Judaism and Care for the Poor in Aphrahat’s Demonstration 20”, Journal of Early Christian Studies, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 305-328, 2002.
• A. Battista, “Adamo in Eden e la liturgia celeste: Temi della meditazione cristiana nella Siria del IV secolo; Tra Afraate e il Liber Graduum”, Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 1–27, 2001.
• N. Koltun-Fromm, “Yokes of the Holy Ones: The Embodiment of a Christian Vocation”, Harvard Theological Review, vol. 94, no. 2, pp. 207-220, 2001.

Other Works

Demonstration 4 (fire descends on sacrifice)

• S. P. Brock, Fire From Heaven: From Abel’s Sacrifice to the Eucharist. A Theme in Syriac Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. 229–243.

Demonstration 6 (bnay qyama, etc.)

• G. Nedungatt, “The Covenanters of the Early Syriac Speaking Church”, Orientalia Christiana Periodica, vol. 39, pp. 191–215, 419–444, 1973.
• A. Vööbus, “The Institution of the benai qeiama and benat qeiama in the Ancient Syrian Church”, Church History, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 19-27, 1961.
• S. Griffith, “Monks, 'Singles', and 'Sons of the Covenant'”, in Eulogēma studies in honor of Robert Taft, E. Carr, Ed. Rome: Ateneo S. Anselmo, 1993, pp. 141-160. also The Harp 4 (1991), 145–159.
• R. Valantasis and Wimbush, V. L., Eds., Asceticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • Pp.  220–248

Demonstration 7

• T. Jansma, “Aphraates' demonstration VII 18 and 20: some observations on the discourse on penance”, Parole de l'Orient, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 21-48, 1974.
• R. Murray, “The Exhortation to Candidates for Ascetical Vows at Baptism in the Ancient Syrian Church”, New Testament Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 59-80, 1974. 

Demonstration 12

• G. A. M. Rouwhorst, “The Date of Easter in the Twelfth Demonstration of Aphraates”, in Studia Patristica, vol. 3, 3 vol., Louvain: Peeters, 1982, pp. 1174–1180.

Demonstration 14

• J. - M. Fiey, “Notule de littérature syriaque. La Démonstration XIV d’Aphraate”, Le Muséon, vol. 81, pp. 449-454, 1968.
• G. Nedungatt, “The Authenticity of Aphrahat’s Synodal Letter”, Orientalia Christiana Periodica, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 62-88, 1980.
• M. - J. Pierre, “Un synode contestataire à l'époque d'Aphraate le Sage Persan ”, in La controverse religieuse et ses formes, A. Le Boulluec, Ed. Paris: Centre d'études des religions du livre (France), 1995, pp. 243-279.

Demonstration 17 (Christology)

• W. L. Petersen, “The Christology of Aphrahat, the Persian Sage: An Excursus on the 17th Demonstration”, Vigiliae Christianae, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 241-256, 1992.

Demonstration 20

• G. Nedungatt, “The Authenticity of Aphrahat’s Synodal Letter”, Orientalia Christiana Periodica, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 62-88, 1980.