The Syriac Book of steps :
The Syriac Book of steps : Syriac text and English translation /
translation and introduction by Robert A. Kitchen.
- 1st Gorgias Press ed.
- Piscataway, N.J. : Gorgias Press, 2009-
- 232 pages ; 23 cm.
- Texts from Christian late antiquity ; 12, 12b, 12c 12b, 12c .
- Texts from Christian late antiquity ; v. 12 etc. .
Fasicle 1. The Syriac Book of Steps 1. Mēmrā one -- Mēmrā two: About those who want to become perfect -- Mēmrā three: The physical and the spiritual ministry -- Mēmrā four: On the vegetables for the sick -- Mēmrā five: On the milk of the children -- Mēmrā six: On those who are made perfect and continue to grow -- Mēmrā seven: On the commandments of the upright -- Mēmrā eight: On one who gives all he has to feed the poor -- Mēmrā nine: On uprightness and the love of the upright and the prophets -- Mēmrā ten -- Fasicle 2. The Syriac Book of Steps 3. Mēmrā eleven: On the hearing of the scriptures when the Law is read before us -- Mēmrā twelve: On the hidden and public ministry of the church -- Mēmrā thirteen: On the ways of the upright -- Mēmrā fourteen: On the upright and the perfect -- Mēmrā Fifteen: On Adam's marital desire -- Mēmrā sisteen: On how a person may surpass the major commandments -- Mēmrā seventeen: On the sufferrings of our Lord who became through them an example for us -- Mēmrā eighteen: On the tears of prayer -- Mēmrā Nineteen: On the discernment of the way of perfection -- Mēmrā twenty: On the difficult steps that are on the road of the City of our Lord -- Fasicle 3. The Syriac Book of Steps 3. Mēmrā twenty-one: On the Tree of Adam -- Mēmrā twenty-two: On the judgments that do not save those who observe them -- Mēmrā twenty-three: On Satan and Pharoah and the Israelites -- Mēmrā twenty-four: On repentance -- Mēmrā twenty-five: On the voice of God and of Satan -- Mēmrā twenty-six: On the second law that the Lord established from Adam -- Mēmrā twenty-seven: About the history of the thief who is saved -- Mēmrā twenty-eight: On the fact that the human soul is not identical with the blood -- Mēmrā twenty-nine: On the discipline of the body -- Mēmrā thirty: On the commandments of faith and the love of the solitaires.
Syriac and English translation on opposite pages; introduction and notes in English.
9781593339784 159333978X 9781593339807 1593339801 9781593339814 159333981X
Christian life--Syrian Church--Early works to 1800.
Monasticism and religious orders--History.--Syria
Spirituality--Syrian Church--History.
Syriac Christians--Religious life.
Fasicle 1. The Syriac Book of Steps 1. Mēmrā one -- Mēmrā two: About those who want to become perfect -- Mēmrā three: The physical and the spiritual ministry -- Mēmrā four: On the vegetables for the sick -- Mēmrā five: On the milk of the children -- Mēmrā six: On those who are made perfect and continue to grow -- Mēmrā seven: On the commandments of the upright -- Mēmrā eight: On one who gives all he has to feed the poor -- Mēmrā nine: On uprightness and the love of the upright and the prophets -- Mēmrā ten -- Fasicle 2. The Syriac Book of Steps 3. Mēmrā eleven: On the hearing of the scriptures when the Law is read before us -- Mēmrā twelve: On the hidden and public ministry of the church -- Mēmrā thirteen: On the ways of the upright -- Mēmrā fourteen: On the upright and the perfect -- Mēmrā Fifteen: On Adam's marital desire -- Mēmrā sisteen: On how a person may surpass the major commandments -- Mēmrā seventeen: On the sufferrings of our Lord who became through them an example for us -- Mēmrā eighteen: On the tears of prayer -- Mēmrā Nineteen: On the discernment of the way of perfection -- Mēmrā twenty: On the difficult steps that are on the road of the City of our Lord -- Fasicle 3. The Syriac Book of Steps 3. Mēmrā twenty-one: On the Tree of Adam -- Mēmrā twenty-two: On the judgments that do not save those who observe them -- Mēmrā twenty-three: On Satan and Pharoah and the Israelites -- Mēmrā twenty-four: On repentance -- Mēmrā twenty-five: On the voice of God and of Satan -- Mēmrā twenty-six: On the second law that the Lord established from Adam -- Mēmrā twenty-seven: About the history of the thief who is saved -- Mēmrā twenty-eight: On the fact that the human soul is not identical with the blood -- Mēmrā twenty-nine: On the discipline of the body -- Mēmrā thirty: On the commandments of faith and the love of the solitaires.
Syriac and English translation on opposite pages; introduction and notes in English.
9781593339784 159333978X 9781593339807 1593339801 9781593339814 159333981X
Christian life--Syrian Church--Early works to 1800.
Monasticism and religious orders--History.--Syria
Spirituality--Syrian Church--History.
Syriac Christians--Religious life.
