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  • Headings on Spiritual Knowledge
    St Isaac of Nineveh / Sebastian Brock
    St Isaac of Nineveh (7th c.), or Isaac the Syrian, is renowned for his spiritual writings. After only five months as bishop of Nineveh, he returned to a life of solitary stillness in the desert of modern-day Iran. His Spiritual Homilies (homilies 1-6 in PPS 11) quickly became treasured throughout the Christian world, not only inspiring monastic and spiritual life through the ag...
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    18,21 €

  • The Stanzaic Poems of Jacob of Serugh
    Sebastian P. Brock
    Jacob of Serugh (died 521) is best known for his many imaginative verse homilies on biblical and other topics. A small number of stanzaic poems attributed to him also survive in old manuscripts, but these have hitherto been largely forgotten, apart from a few odd stanzas here and there which have been preserved in certain liturgical texts. A collection of twenty-five of these p...
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    108,00 €

  • Singer of the Word of God
    Sebastian P. Brock / Sebastian PBrock
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    262,66 €

  • An Introduction to Syriac Studies (Third Edition)
    Sebastian P. Brock
    This introduction aims to provide basic guidance to important areas of Syriac studies. The relevance of Syriac studies to a variety of other fields is explored, notably Biblical studies, Patristics, and the general history of the Near East. A brief orientation to the history of Syriac literature is offered, and Syriac is set within the context of the other Aramaic dialects. A t...
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    54,97 €

  • Pocket Gorgias Syriac-English Dictionary
    George Anton Kiraz / Sebastian P Brock
    The Pocket Dictionary is both a convenient academic resource and a door into the world of Modern Literary Syriac. With 13,000 entries drawn from the major existing works, it is a practical tool for all but the most specialized Classical Syriac texts. 3 ...
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    68,97 €

  • The Martyrs of Mount Ber’ain
    Sebastian Brock
    The Martyrs of Mount Ber’ain provides important evidence for enduring concerns of Christian self-definition in the framework of the Sasanian Empire, especially as represented by the Zoroastrian priesthood. The three children, Adarparwa, Mihrnarse, and Mahdukht, work to forget their education by the Magi, with whom they soon find themselves engaged in battle; and yet some key fe...
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    74,22 €

  • The Martyrdom of St Phokas of Sinope
    P. Brock Sebastian / Sebastian P. Brock
    The fame of the martyr St. Phokas, first bishop of Sinope (on the Black Sea) and patron of seafarers, had spread to many parts of the Christian world by the fifth and sixth centuries. Although the Acts of his martyrdom under Trajan were composed in Greek, the earliest witness to them is the Syriac translation which is edited and translated here from two early manuscripts. 3 ...
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    46,28 €

  • Spirituality in the Syriac Tradition
    Sebastian P. Brock
    In the present volume, Sebastian Brock provides an introduction and overview of the unique themes and features of spirituality in the Syriac tradition and includes excerpts from various texts throughout the Syriac tradition that exhibit these features. 3 ...
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    187,70 €

  • Jacob of Serugh
    Sebastian Brock
    Brock provides an indispensable bibliographic resource for Jacob of Serugh scholarship. This guide lists Jacob’s mimre by biblical passage and liturgical events, uplifted saints and topics, other works including prose and letters, and recommended secondary sources for further study. 3 ...
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    28,27 €

  • Six Homilies by Jacob of Sarug
    Sebastian Brock
    Jacob of Sarug (451-521) was a prolific writer of the Syriac Church and was known as 'the flute of the Holy Spirit and the harp of the believing church'. Sebastian Brock gives the Syriac edition of six homilies written by Jacob: on the birth of our Lord; on the baptism of our Lord; on the Great Lent; on Palm Sunday; on Good Friday; on Easter Sunday. The text is based on an anci...
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    126,12 €

  • A Brief Outline of Syriac Literature
    Sebastian P. Brock
    Sebastian Brock provides an overview of Syriac literature from the second to the twenty-first century. Brock divides this overview into six historical periods, surveys the important authors and writings of each period, and provides excerpts from some important writings. 3 ...
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    86,24 €

  • Mary and Joseph, and Other Dialogue Poems on Mary
    Sebastian Brock
    What was Joseph’s reaction when he arrived home to find Mary pregnant? How did Mary manage to persuade him that her child was none other than the Son of God? Dialogue poems offer lively, thought-provoking re-imaginings of Biblical events. 3 ...
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    57,27 €

  • Selected Dialogue Poems [Sugyotho Mgabyotho]
    Sebastian Brock
    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 Ma...
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    136,96 €

  • The History of the Holy Mar Ma’in
    Sebastian P. Brock
    The History of Holy Mar Ma’in of Sinjar tells the story of a Sasanian general during the time of Shapur II (309-79) who suffered persecution after his conversion to Christianity. Composed probably in the sixth century, this text is of a higher literary quality than most of the other texts describing martyrdoms under Shapur II. In this volume, the first in this new series from G...
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    92,66 €

  • The Holy Spirit in the Syrian Baptismal Tradition
    Sebastian Brock
    A fitting contribution to Gorgias Liturgical Studies, Sebastian Brock’s The Holy Spirit in the Syrian Baptismal Tradition is a sensitive and evocative treatment of an issue key to any liturgical tradition-that of the role of the Holy Spirit in worship. With a keen awareness of the tradition of Syrian Christianity, Brock begins his exploration with the concept and the role of th...
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    100,03 €

  • The Bible in the Syriac Tradition (Kthobo Qadisho L-Phuth Mashlmonutho Suryoyto)
    Sebastian P. Brock / Eugene Aydin
    An excellent introduction to the Syriac Bible and its usage in the Syriac tradition. Brock gives an outline of all the Syriac versions of the Old and New Testaments, with chapters on the usage of the Bible, biblical commentaries and liturgical use of the scriptures. 3 ...
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    66,54 €

  • The Luminous Eye
    Sebastian P. Brock / Sebastian PBrock
    Sebastian Brock is Reader in Syriac Studies in the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fellow of Wolfson College. He has written extensively on Syriac subjects and served on the translation panel which produced The Psalms: A New Translation for Worship (1977). He is a member of the Editorial Board of Sobornost/Eastern Churches Review, and is curator of the Mingana Collec...
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    35,99 €

  • Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life
    Sebastian Brock
    The textbook and pulpit notion that all Christendom is divided between Greek East and Latin West overlooks an ancient and still continuing third stream of tradition: Syriac Christianity. Cut off from the rest of the Christian world by theological controversy in the fifth century, Arab conquest in the seventh, and Mongul invasions in the thirteenth, Syrian Christians continued t...
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    47,39 €