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This wonderful new collection of one of our most renowned poets, Nazar Derani is highly recommended. The Navel, the Plant and Immortality's Nazar Derani's questioning the philosophy of birth, life and death, it is his attempt to mourn the loss of everything dear to him and his struggle to preserve what is left of what has been keeping him alive.

Fragments of my Being' can be seen as a dairy of an Assyrian poet who was forced to flee his country and seek refuge in neighbouring countries and eventually settle in Australia whilst trying to reclaim his soul which he left behind.

This is a sixty pages long epic poem by one of the most anticipated poets among our youth, Jameel Al Jameel. The work was written in Arabic and translated by Qusay Maslub, himself an establish poet and dramatist. Jameel Al Jameel lived through the ISIS attacks in 2014 and the mass deportation of the Assyrians from the Nineveh Plains that followed. This epic poem, 'What a Soldier left Behind in Baghdede', is a poetic documentation of an eyewitn...

This new collection of Nineb Lamassu focuses on love and romance, and the intimacy enjoyed by two passionate lovers. At times we meet poems exploring the most intimate aspects of a love relationship, through risqué and erotic language, and at times we come across poems describing the pain of separation and breakups. No Assyrian poetry has dared to explore love in such a way as Nineb Lamassu has done in this new collection. Thus Snakes and...

A third-century Christian treatise in Syriac on the organisation and laws of the early church, first published in 1903.

An edition and annotated translation of a Syriac manuscript in the British Library, dated 719 AD and containing the Books of Samuel in the version of the Syrian Orthodox scholar Jacob, bishop of Edessa (c. 640-708).The first volume also contains a detailed introduction concerning the nature of Jacob's revisions of the Peshitta text, which uses the Septuagint version and especially the Lucianic recension.Jacob of Edessa's bible version provides...

Syriac Christian incantations and charms against illness or injury, edited with translations and notes.

Collection and translation of manuscript fragments in Syriac and Greek including the gospels, epistles and parts of the Old Testament.

A commentary on the Epistles of Paul in Syriac, written by a revered Assyrian bishop in the ninth century.

The present volume makes available for the first time the earliest translation of Aristotle into a Semitic language. It will open the way to a fuller understanding of the transformation of Greek logic in Syriac and Arabic.

This books gives the Syriac text of the account of Yaballaha III, Church of the East Patriarch, and his vicar Bar Sauma, the Mongol Ambassador to the Frankish courts at the end of the thirteenth century.

St. Isaac of Nineveh, or, as he is sometimes known, St. Isaac the Syrian, was born in the region of modern Qatar and lived during the seventh century. Ordained as the bishop of Nineveh sometime between 661 and 681 CE, Isaac withdrew from his ecclesiastical office after only five months, retiring to live as a monastic hermit in the mountains of southeastern Iraq. Translated from their original Syriac into a number of other languages, St. Isaac'...

Most of the Bible in Syriac, with eight fragments in Greek.

Philoxenos Dolabani provides a brief biographical introduction to Jacob of Serug, including a survey of his life and works.

In this work, Martin offers the Syriac text, with an annotated French translation, of Narsai's poem on the three doctors of the Church of the East: Diodore of Tarsus, Theodore of Mopsuestia, and Nestorius.

From an early manuscript dated to 411 Lagarde here produces the text of the Syriac version of Titus of Bostra's (died 371) Against the Manichaeans, which has not survived complete in Greek.

John of Mosul's (died 1270) poem of spiritual guidance in the seven-syllable meter deals with, among other things, learning and the reading of Scripture, fasting, prayer, the Lord's Prayer, parents instructing their children in doctrine, astrology and magic, etc.

This is a thorough academic tutorial of the Syriac language beginning with its history and ending with the learning of the language itself.

Dialogue poetry is a genre that began in ancient Sumer and continues in rich fashion in the Syriac tradition. Sebastian Brock has selected an edition of twenty six dialogue poems: between the Church and Zion, Abraham and Isaac, Joseph and Benjamin, the body and the soul, Joseph and Mary, the thief and the cherub, Mary and the Magi, the church and the believers, the angel and Mary, among the months of the year, between the angel and Zachariah, ...

Khoury provides a complete history of the Maronite Mission in Egypt from the mid-18th into the beginning of the 20th century, including chapters on the important figures connected with the mission and other historical events.