The Scriptorium · translations
| Work | Author | Passages | Words | Commentary | Status |
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| Homilies44 works | |||||
001 Rabbula, bishop of Edessa (411/412–435), delivered this homily in Constantinople during the Christological controversies of the 420s or early 430s. The Syriac text survi… | Rabbula of Edessa | 5 | 1,730 | 29 7 kinds | machine-draft |
002 This anonymous Syriac memra (homily) is a rhythmic, isosyllabic prose composition that employs biblical typology and direct address to the congregation. Surviving in a s… | Anonymous | 6 | 1,613 | 32 6 kinds | machine-draft |
003 Memra 10 is an anonymous Syriac metrical homily (memrā) preserved in a single, late manuscript copy from the 19th century. The work focuses on the ascetic disciplines of… | Anonymous | 10 | 2,551 | 56 8 kinds | machine-draft |
004 Memra 11 is an anonymous Syriac homily composed in rhythmic, isosyllabic prose with internal rhyme and scriptural allusions. Its elevated, exhortatory register suggests… | Anonymous | 6 | 1,484 | 35 7 kinds | machine-draft |
005 This anonymous Syriac memra (homily) explores the binary of 'hidden' (kasyā) and 'public' (galyā) ministry within the church, applying a mystagogical framework to eccles… | Anonymous | 10 | 2,322 | 57 7 kinds | machine-draft |
006 Memra 13, an anonymous Syriac homily from the 4th or 5th century CE, exhorts its audience to moral uprightness (kēnūtā) without tying this ideal to a specific monastic o… | Anonymous | 8 | 2,217 | 42 6 kinds | machine-draft |
007 Memra 14: On the Upright and the Perfect is an anonymous Syriac homily (memra) that contrasts two modes of Christian life: the 'upright' (kēnē), who live morally within… | Anonymous | 4 | 1,043 | 23 6 kinds | machine-draft |
008 This anonymous Syriac verse homily (memra) explores the origin of marital desire in Adam after the Fall, interpreting the serpent's deception as an instruction in desire… | Anonymous | 25 | 6,207 | 140 8 kinds | machine-draft |
009 Memra 16, an anonymous Syriac homily from the 4th/5th century CE, explores how interior disposition can surpass the observance of major commandments, such as the Decalog… | Anonymous | 12 | 3,175 | 67 8 kinds | machine-draft |
010 This anonymous Syriac memra (homily) interprets Christ's sufferings as an exemplary model for believers, urging them to embrace suffering as a path to spiritual transfor… | Anonymous | 8 | 1,904 | 44 8 kinds | machine-draft |
011 Memra 18: On the Tears of Prayer is an anonymous Syriac homily preserved in a single 19th-century Ethiopic manuscript (DSC 205). The work explores the dual nature of tea… | Anonymous | 7 | 1,544 | 40 8 kinds | machine-draft |
012 Memra 20: On the Difficult Steps that are on the Road of the City of Our Lord is an anonymous Syriac homily preserved in a single West Syriac manuscript (DSC 207) dated… | Anonymous | 24 | 6,143 | 138 8 kinds | machine-draft |
013 This anonymous Syriac homily, Memra 21: On the Tree of Adam, survives only in a single 9th–10th century manuscript (DSC 208) written in West Syriac script. The work is u… | Anonymous | 23 | 6,093 | 130 8 kinds | machine-draft |
014 Memra 22: On the Judgments That Do Not Save Those Who Observe Them is an anonymous Syriac homily preserved in a single manuscript (DSC 209). It argues that legal and pen… | Anonymous | 27 | 7,074 | 153 8 kinds | machine-draft |
015 Memra 23: On Satan and Pharaoh and the Israelites is an anonymous Syriac homily that reinterprets the Exodus narrative, arguing that the Israelites' suffering was self-i… | Anonymous | 10 | 2,709 | 55 8 kinds | machine-draft |
016 Memra 24: On Repentance is an anonymous Syriac homily, likely composed in the 4th or 5th century CE, that argues for the possibility of repentance even after death, coun… | Anonymous | 9 | 2,417 | 52 8 kinds | machine-draft |
017 Memra 25: On the Voice of God and of Satan is an anonymous Syriac homily preserved only in a single 19th-century manuscript (DSC 212) from the Church of the Forty Martyr… | Anonymous | 11 | 2,815 | 62 7 kinds | machine-draft |
018 Memra 26, an anonymous Syriac homily, interprets the 'second law' as a divine ordinance established from Adam, distinct from Mosaic legislation. It presents a typologica… | Anonymous | 4 | 998 | 24 8 kinds | machine-draft |
019 Memra 27: About the History of the Thief Who is Saved is an anonymous Syriac homily that narrates and reflects on the story of the Good Thief (the penitent thief crucifi… | Anonymous | 7 | 1,899 | 41 7 kinds | machine-draft |
020 Memra 28, an anonymous Syriac homily, argues against the identification of the human soul with blood, a view attributed to unnamed disputants. The author distinguishes b… | Anonymous | 10 | 2,431 | 55 8 kinds | machine-draft |
021 This anonymous Syriac memra (verse homily) exhorts ascetic discipline of the body, employing vivid imagery of the flesh as a servant to be controlled. The register is pa… | Anonymous | 24 | 5,820 | 135 8 kinds | machine-draft |
022 Memra 2: About Those Who Want to Become Perfect is an anonymous Syriac homily (memra) that exhorts listeners to embrace radical asceticism, including loving enemies and… | Anonymous | 7 | 1,942 | 39 7 kinds | machine-draft |
023 This anonymous Syriac memra, preserved only in an Ethiopic translation within the Faws Manfasawi manuscript, contrasts physical and spiritual forms of diaconal or liturg… | Anonymous | 18 | 4,674 | 102 8 kinds | machine-draft |
024 Memra 4: On the Vegetables for the Sick is an anonymous Syriac homily from the 4th or 5th century CE. It uses the metaphor of vegetables offered to the sick to explore s… | Anonymous | 7 | 1,852 | 39 8 kinds | machine-draft |
025 Memra 5: On the Milk of the Children is an anonymous Syriac homily, likely composed in the 4th or 5th century CE, though the original Syriac is lost. The work survives i… | Anonymous | 18 | 4,719 | 105 8 kinds | machine-draft |
026 Memra 6, titled 'On Those Who Are Made Perfect and Continue to Grow,' is an anonymous Syriac homily from the 4th/5th century CE. It survives in a single manuscript (6th–… | Anonymous | 3 | 572 | 17 8 kinds | machine-draft |
027 Memra 7: On the Commandments of the Upright is an anonymous Syriac homily from the East Syriac memra tradition, likely composed between the 4th and 5th centuries CE. The… | Anonymous | 20 | 5,249 | 114 8 kinds | machine-draft |
028 This anonymous Syriac homily, preserved only in a 19th-century Ethiopic manuscript, exhorts the faithful to give all their possessions to feed the poor. It draws on Paul… | Anonymous | 6 | 1,344 | 34 7 kinds | machine-draft |
029 This anonymous Syriac memra (homily) explores the theme of uprightness (kēnē) and the covenantal love (ḥubbā) that binds the prophets to God, linking their devotion to b… | Anonymous | 23 | 5,669 | 127 8 kinds | machine-draft |
030 Jacob of Serugh's 'First Memra on Joseph' is a metrical homily (memra) in Syriac, composed in twelve-syllable meter during his episcopate at Batnan (late 5th–early 6th c… | Jacob of Serugh | 19 | 5,022 | 109 8 kinds | machine-draft |
031 Jacob of Serugh's tenth memra on Joseph is a metrical homily composed in isosyllabic couplets, typical of his poetic style. The work presents Joseph as a typological pre… | Jacob of Serugh | 18 | 4,830 | 103 8 kinds | machine-draft |
032 This second memra (verse homily) by Jacob of Serugh on the patriarch Joseph belongs to a cycle of homilies on Joseph. Composed in isosyllabic couplets (12+12 syllables),… | Jacob of Serugh | 15 | 4,104 | 86 8 kinds | machine-draft |
033 This homily, attributed to Jacob of Serugh (d. ca. 521 CE), is the third in a cycle on the patriarch Joseph. Composed in twelve-syllable meter, it retells the biblical s… | Jacob of Serugh | 16 | 4,152 | 95 8 kinds | machine-draft |
034 Jacob of Serugh's fourth memra on Joseph is a metrical homily in Syriac, composed in twelve-syllable meter with acrostic patterns. It narrates the biblical story of Jose… | Jacob of Serugh | 16 | 4,131 | 93 8 kinds | machine-draft |
035 This memra (metrical homily) by Jacob of Serugh (c. 451–521) is the fifth in a series on the patriarch Joseph. Composed in twelve-syllable couplets, it was performed in… | Jacob of Serugh | 14 | 3,982 | 80 8 kinds | machine-draft |
036 Jacob of Serugh's sixth memra on Joseph, composed in twelve-syllable meter with acrostic structuring on the letter mīm, presents the biblical Joseph (Genesis 37–50) as a… | Jacob of Serugh | 15 | 4,086 | 87 8 kinds | machine-draft |
037 This memra (metrical homily) by Jacob of Serugh retells the biblical story of Joseph (Genesis 37–50) in twelve-syllable verse, expanding the narrative with dramatic dial… | Jacob of Serugh | 13 | 3,360 | 71 8 kinds | machine-draft |
038 This homily, the eighth memra on Joseph by Jacob of Serugh, retells the biblical story of Joseph (Genesis 37–50) in twelve-syllable meter with end-rhyme, a hallmark of J… | Jacob of Serugh | 5 | 1,411 | 29 8 kinds | machine-draft |
039 Jacob of Serugh's ninth memra on Joseph is a Syriac homily composed in twelve-syllable couplets, a hallmark of his liturgical and paraenetic style. The work typologicall… | Jacob of Serugh | 37 | 10,523 | 213 8 kinds | machine-draft |
040 Homily 10 of the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies is a Syriac translation of a Greek homily attributed to Clement of Rome. It presents a disputation between Peter and Simon Ma… | (Ps.-)Clement of Rome | 15 | 4,678 | 86 8 kinds | machine-draft |
041 Homily 11 of the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies is a pseudepigraphical sermon attributed to Clement of Rome, set within a narrative of Peter's missionary discourses in Tripo… | (Ps.-)Clement of Rome | 23 | 7,000 | 132 8 kinds | machine-draft |
042 Homily 12 of the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies, attributed to Clement of Rome, survives in a single Syriac manuscript translated from a Greek original. The homily continues… | (Ps.-)Clement of Rome | 13 | 4,199 | 77 8 kinds | machine-draft |
043 Homily 13 of the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies is a pseudepigraphical sermon attributed to Clement of Rome, surviving only in a lacunose Syriac manuscript (British Library… | (Ps.-)Clement of Rome | 12 | 3,815 | 68 8 kinds | machine-draft |
044 Homily 14 of the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies is a pseudepigraphical discourse attributed to Clement of Rome, surviving only in a Syriac translation from a lost Greek orig… | (Ps.-)Clement of Rome | 8 | 2,579 | 46 8 kinds | machine-draft |