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Syriac · Early 5th century CE · dsc-492
The 'Advice to Solitaries' attributed to Rabbula of Edessa is a set of Syriac monastic admonitions (zūhārē) that prescribe strict ascetic discipline for solitary monks.…
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Syriac · Mid-4th century CE · dsc-534 English translation exists
Ephrem the Syrian's 'Against Bardaisan' is a mid-4th century prose refutation of the teachings of Bardaisan (154–222 CE), a Syriac Christian theologian whose cosmology a…
Ephrem the Syrian185,018106
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Syriac · Second half of the fifth ce… · dsc-58
Narsai's 'Against the Jews' is a Syriac metrical homily (ʿuqqāyā) composed in the late fifth century CE, likely during his tenure at the School of Edessa or Nisibis. The…
Narsai205,423116
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Syriac · 3rd-5th century CE Translat… · dsc-333 English translation exists
The anonymous Syriac 'Account of the Decease of Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist' is a pseudepigraphical narrative describing the death of John the Evangelist. It surv…
Anonymous61,78435
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Syriac · Late 5th/early 6th century… · dsc-340
An Admonition attributed to Jacob of Serugh is a Syriac ascetic discourse that exhorts its audience to ceaseless praise of God, framing the tongue as consecrated solely…
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Syriac · Early 5th century CE · dsc-491
The Canons of Rabbula are a collection of ecclesiastical regulations attributed to Rabbula, bishop of Edessa (411/412–435 CE). Written in Syriac, they address clerical d…
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Syriac · 10th-12th century CE · dsc-507
Cause of all Causes: Book 2 is an anonymous Syriac metaphysical treatise, likely composed between the 6th and 12th centuries, surviving in a single manuscript (DSC 507).…
Anonymous5015,429279
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Syriac · 10th-12th century CE · dsc-510
Book 5 of the anonymous Syriac philosophical-theological treatise 'Cause of all Causes' continues a Neoplatonic and Christian synthesis exploring the first principle as…
Anonymous6820,776374
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Syriac · 10th-12th century CE · dsc-511
Cause of all Causes: Book 6 is an anonymous Syriac treatise that continues a series of discourses on sublunary phenomena, likely forming part of a larger metaphysical or…
Anonymous4213,063225
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Syriac · 10th-12th century CE · dsc-512
Book 7 of the anonymous Syriac treatise 'Cause of all Causes' is a philosophical-theological work that examines causality and divine attributes through a Neoplatonic len…
Anonymous3510,484195
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Syriac · 337 CE · dsc-10 English translation exists
Aphrahat's Demonstration 10, 'On Shepherds,' is a mid-4th-century Syriac homiletic work that uses the shepherd metaphor to frame ecclesiastical authority. Drawing on bib…
Aphrahat82,84145
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Syriac · 343 CE · dsc-11 English translation exists
Demonstration 11: On Circumcision, composed by Aphrahat in the mid-4th century CE, is a Syriac Christian polemical treatise arguing that circumcision is a spiritual rath…
Aphrahat134,60877
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Syriac · 343 CE · dsc-12 English translation exists
Demonstration 12: On Passover is a Syriac Christian treatise by Aphrahat, likely composed around 345–347 CE during the Persian persecution under Shapur II. The work inte…
Aphrahat124,26667
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Syriac · 343 CE · dsc-13 English translation exists
Aphrahat's Demonstration 13 argues against Sabbath observance, interpreting the Sabbath as a typological institution superseded by Christian practice. Part of a series o…
Aphrahat114,00364
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Syriac · 343 CE · dsc-15 English translation exists
Demonstration 15: On the Distinction between Foods, composed by Aphrahat in 343 CE, is a dialogic exhortation addressing a single interlocutor ('my friend') to guide rea…
Aphrahat113,90261
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Syriac · 343 CE · dsc-16 English translation exists
Demonstration 16, 'On the Peoples, who have replaced the People,' is a Syriac homily by Aphrahat, composed around 344–345 CE during the Sasanian persecution of Christian…
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Syriac · 343 CE · dsc-17 English translation exists
Demonstration 17, 'On the Messiah, that he is the Son of God,' is a Syriac prose treatise by Aphrahat, composed around 343 CE during the reign of Shapur II. The work def…
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Syriac · 343 CE · dsc-18 English translation exists
Demonstration 18, titled 'Against the Jews, On Virginity and Holiness,' is a Syriac treatise by Aphrahat, composed around 345 CE. It defends Christian asceticism against…
Aphrahat93,02552
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Syriac · 337 CE · dsc-1 English translation exists
Demonstration 1: On Faith is the first of 23 homilies by the Syriac author Aphrahat, composed around 337 CE. The work defines faith (haymanutha) as both personal trust a…
Aphrahat134,68777
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Syriac · 343 CE · dsc-20 English translation exists
Demonstration 20: On Care for the Poor, composed by Aphrahat around 343 CE, is a Syriac Christian treatise urging almsgiving and communal support for the needy. It emplo…
Aphrahat124,47270
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Syriac · 343 CE · dsc-21 English translation exists
Demonstration 21: On Persecution, written by Aphrahat around 344 CE, addresses the Sasanian persecution of Christians under Shapur II. The work uses a homiletic register…
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Syriac · 343 CE · dsc-22 English translation exists
Demonstration 22: On Death and the Last Times is a Syriac discourse by Aphrahat, composed around 343 CE during the Sasanian persecutions under Shapur II. The work addres…
Aphrahat197,031111
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Syriac · 337 CE · dsc-2 English translation exists
Demonstration 2: On Love, by the fourth-century Syriac author Aphrahat, explores the theological concept of 'ḥubbā' (love) as the bond between God and humanity and among…
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Syriac · 337 CE · dsc-3 English translation exists
Demonstration 3: On Fasting, composed by Aphrahat between 337 and 345 CE, is a didactic exposition on fasting (ṣawmā) as both literal abstinence and broader ascetic disc…
Aphrahat134,54775
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Syriac · 337 CE · dsc-4 English translation exists
Demonstration 4: On Prayer, composed by Aphrahat in Syriac around 337 CE, explores prayer (ܨܠܘܬܐ) as both liturgical petition and interior disposition, reflecting an asc…
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Syriac · 337 CE · dsc-5 English translation exists
Demonstration 5: On Wars, composed by Aphrahat between 337 and 345 CE, addresses contemporary anxieties about Roman-Persian conflicts and eschatological disturbance. Wri…
Aphrahat196,840112
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Syriac · 337 CE · dsc-7 English translation exists
Demonstration 7: On Penitents, composed by Aphrahat in the mid-4th century CE, is a Syriac prose treatise on repentance (tyābūtā) as a healing remedy for sin. Written du…
Aphrahat155,51989
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Syriac · 337 CE · dsc-8 English translation exists
Demonstration 8: On the Resurrection of the Dead is a treatise by the fourth-century Syriac author Aphrahat, composed as part of his series of twenty-three Demonstration…
Aphrahat155,48688
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Syriac · 337 CE · dsc-9 English translation exists
Demonstration 9: On Humility is a Syriac ascetical treatise by Aphrahat, composed around 337–345 CE during the Sasanian persecution of Christians under Shapur II. The wo…
Aphrahat124,14468
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Syriac · 3rd-5th century CE Translat… · dsc-339
The Dialogue on the Soul is a Syriac monastic dialogue between a master and a disciple concerning the nature, origin, and cognition of the soul. Framed as a catechetical…
John the Solitary9432,479543
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-392 English translation exists
Discourse 1 of Isaac of Nineveh is the opening chapter of a collection of Syriac ascetical writings composed in the late 7th century. It introduces key monastic themes s…
Isaac of Nineveh112,68060
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-401 English translation exists
Discourse 10 of Isaac of Nineveh is a Syriac ascetical treatise from the late 7th century CE, preserved in the first volume of his collected works. The discourse warns a…
Isaac of Nineveh51,20030
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-402 English translation exists
Discourse 11, part of Isaac of Nineveh's First Collection, is a Syriac ascetical treatise composed in the late 7th century CE. It addresses the solitary life, emphasizin…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-403 English translation exists
Discourse 12, part of Isaac of Nineveh's first collection, addresses the spiritual life through a tripartite schema of beginning, middle, and completion. It explores the…
Isaac of Nineveh364016
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-404
Discourse 13, part of Isaac of Nineveh's second collection (Kephalaia gnostica), explores the spiritual changes experienced by those who practice stillness (hesychia). W…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-405 English translation exists
Discourse 14 by Isaac of Nineveh is a Syriac ascetic text from the late 7th century, preserved in the first volume of his collected works. It explores the contemplative…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-406
Discourse 15 by Isaac of Nineveh (7th c.) is a Syriac ascetical treatise from his First Part, composed during monastic retirement in Beth Huzaye (southwest Iran). It exp…
Isaac of Nineveh370017
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-407
Discourse 16, from Isaac of Nineveh's later writings, explores the ascetic practice of silence (šelyā) and its role in cultivating vigilance and discernment. Composed in…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-408 English translation exists
Discourse 17 of Isaac of Nineveh, part of the Second Part of his ascetical corpus, focuses on the night vigil (šahrā) as the supreme ascetic labor for the solitary (īḥīḏ…
Isaac of Nineveh81,65445
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-409 English translation exists
Discourse 18 of Isaac of Nineveh, part of his later corpus, is a Syriac ascetical text composed in the late 7th century during Isaac's retirement at Mount Matout. It sur…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-410
Discourse 19 by Isaac of Nineveh, a seventh-century Syriac monastic writer of the Church of the East, explores the nature of revelation as a non-discursive, spiritual op…
Isaac of Nineveh81,82144
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-393
Discourse 2 by Isaac of Nineveh is a Syriac ascetical text from the late 7th century, part of his First Part, composed during his monastic retirement at Rabban Shapur. I…
Isaac of Nineveh122,72469
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-411 English translation exists
Discourse 20, part of Isaac of Nineveh's First Part, is a late 7th-century Syriac ascetic treatise exploring spiritual revelation, the purification of the intellect, and…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-412 English translation exists
Discourse 21 is a late 7th-century Syriac text by Isaac of Nineveh, composed during his retirement at Rabban Shapur. It belongs to the later, more esoteric phase of his…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-413 English translation exists
Discourse 22 of Isaac of Nineveh is a late 7th-century Syriac ascetical treatise on the distinction between the practice and vision of prayer. Composed during Isaac's re…
Isaac of Nineveh153,40281
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-414 English translation exists
Discourse 23 by Isaac of Nineveh is a late 7th-century Syriac monastic text exploring the nature of signs, events, and divine providence. Isaac defines a 'sign' (gedšā)…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-415 English translation exists
Discourse 24, part of Isaac of Nineveh's Second Part, is a Syriac ascetical treatise from the late 7th century. It addresses monastic practices such as prostration and i…
Isaac of Nineveh61,58834
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-416 English translation exists
Discourse 25 by Isaac of Nineveh is a Syriac ascetical text from the late 7th century, preserved in the West Syriac manuscript tradition as part of the 'First Collection…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-417 English translation exists
Discourse 26 by Isaac of Nineveh, a late 7th-century Syriac monastic text, argues that sin, Gehenna, and death are not created substances but consequences of human will,…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-418 English translation exists
Discourse 27 is a Syriac ascetical treatise by Isaac of Nineveh, composed in the late 7th century, likely after his withdrawal to the monastery of Rabban Shapur. The dis…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-419 English translation exists
Discourse 28 is a late 7th-century Syriac homily by Isaac of Nineveh, composed during his retirement at Mount Matout. It forms part of his later writings, surviving in m…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-420
Discourse 29 is a chapter from Isaac of Nineveh's second volume (Kephalaia gnostika), composed in Syriac during the late 7th century. The discourse explores themes of di…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-394 English translation exists
Discourse 3 by Isaac of Nineveh (ca. 613–700 CE) is a Syriac ascetical-mystical treatise written during his hermitage at the monastery of Rabban Shapur. The discourse co…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-421 English translation exists
Discourse 30 by Isaac of Nineveh, part of his first collection of ascetic discourses, addresses the nature of sin and the path to spiritual freedom. Written in Syriac in…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-422 English translation exists
Discourse 31 by Isaac of Nineveh, part of his First Part, explores the ascetic struggle as a contest (ʿamlā) whose victory requires great effort, but not merely over evi…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-423
Discourse 32 by Isaac of Nineveh is a late 7th-century Syriac ascetical text from the East Syriac monastic tradition. It addresses the monk's inner life, focusing on gua…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-424
Discourse 33 is part of Isaac of Nineveh's second volume (Kephalaia gnostika), composed in the late 7th century during his retirement at Rabban Shapur. The Syriac text s…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-425
Discourse 34 is an ascetical homily by Isaac of Nineveh, a late 7th-century East Syriac monastic writer. The discourse explores the progeny of virtues, particularly humi…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-427 English translation exists
Discourse 36 by Isaac of Nineveh (7th c.) survives in the West Syriac manuscript tradition, part of the first volume of his discourses. Written during his monastic retir…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-428 English translation exists
Discourse 37 is a late-7th-century Syriac ascetical text by Isaac of Nineveh, composed in the monastery of Rabban Shapur (modern-day Iran). It survives in a single 10th-…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-429 English translation exists
Discourse 38 is a chapter from Isaac of Nineveh's second volume (Kephalaia gnostika), composed in Syriac during the late 7th century. It presents a series of antithetica…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-430
Discourse 39 is a Syriac monastic text by Isaac of Nineveh, composed in the late 7th century. It belongs to his First Part, a collection of discourses on ascetic renunci…
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Syriac · Late 5th/early 6th century… · dsc-376 English translation exists
Philoxenos of Mabbug's Discourse 3: On Faith presents faith (haymanuthā) as a living, embodied act of divine knowledge rather than mere intellectual assent. Composed dur…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-395 English translation exists
Discourse 4 by Isaac of Nineveh is a Syriac ascetical treatise composed during his monastic retirement at Rabban Shapur in the late 7th century. It survives in the earli…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-431 English translation exists
Discourse 40 is a chapter from Isaac of Nineveh's second volume (Part II), composed in the late 7th century during his retirement at Rabban Shapur. The Syriac text survi…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-432 English translation exists
Discourse 41 is a chapter from the Second Part of Isaac of Nineveh, a late 7th-century Syriac monastic writer. The discourse explores themes of inner stillness (šelyā),…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-433 English translation exists
Discourse 42 by Isaac of Nineveh is a formal treatise from the late 7th century CE, part of his first corpus of ascetic writings. Composed in Syriac in late Sasanian Mes…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-434 English translation exists
Discourse 43 is a late 7th-century Syriac ascetical treatise by Isaac of Nineveh, composed during his retirement at Rabban Shabur. The text explores themes of faith, rep…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-435 English translation exists
Discourse 44, part of Isaac of Nineveh's ascetical corpus, explores the distinction between natural and spiritual knowledge. Isaac defines natural knowledge as an innate…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-436 English translation exists
Discourse 45, attributed to Isaac of Nineveh, is a late 7th-century Syriac ascetic treatise composed during Isaac's retirement at Rabban Shapur. The discourse explores t…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-437 partly translated elsewhere
Discourse 46 by Isaac of Nineveh, a late 7th-century Syriac monastic writer, explores the interplay of mercy, knowledge, and contemplative practice. Using the simile of…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-438
Discourse 47, part of Isaac of Nineveh's First Part, explores the initial stirring of divine mercy in the soul and Satan's opposition. Written in Syriac in the late 7th…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-439
Discourse 48 is a late seventh-century Syriac text by Isaac of Nineveh, preserved in a single manuscript tradition within the Church of the East. Part of the Second Part…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-440
Discourse 49, part of Isaac of Nineveh's first collection, addresses the ascetic's struggle against demonic distraction and the discipline of silence (šelyā). Written in…
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Syriac · Late 5th/early 6th century… · dsc-377
Philoxenos of Mabbug's Discourse 4, 'On Faith and Simplicity,' is a Syriac ascetic treatise composed during his episcopate (485–518), likely in the early 6th century. It…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-396 English translation exists
Discourse 5 by Isaac of Nineveh is a homily from his first collection of ascetical discourses, composed in Syriac during the late 7th century CE. The text explores theme…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-441 English translation exists
Discourse 50, part of Isaac of Nineveh's ascetical corpus, survives in 7th–8th century Syriac manuscripts transmitted in West Syriac monastic circles. The text diagnoses…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-442
Discourse 51 by Isaac of Nineveh, composed in the late 7th century CE, explores the contrast between faith and worldly knowledge within the Syriac ascetical tradition. T…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-443
Discourse 52 by Isaac of Nineveh, part of his Second Collection, explores the interiorization of eschatology, contrasting natural knowledge (illumined by senses) with sp…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-444 English translation exists
Discourse 53 by Isaac of Nineveh (7th c.) survives in a single Syriac manuscript (10th–11th c.) with lacunae and marginal corrections, indicating monastic copying. The t…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-445 English translation exists
Discourse 54 by Isaac of Nineveh (7th c. CE) explores the concept of invocation (mǧʿānūṯā) as a means of sanctification, distinguishing between a sacramental, knowable r…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-446
Discourse 55 is a late ascetical treatise by Isaac of Nineveh, composed after his withdrawal to the monastery of Rabban Shapur in the late 7th century. The Syriac text s…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-447 partly translated elsewhere
Discourse 56 by Isaac of Nineveh is a Syriac ascetical text from the late 7th century, surviving in a single 10th-century manuscript. It explores the contrast between at…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-448
Discourse 57, part of Isaac of Nineveh's later corpus, explores the ascetic virtue of endurance (msaybarānūtā) as a path to divine compassion through involuntary sufferi…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-449
Discourse 58 by Isaac of Nineveh is a late 7th-century Syriac ascetical text that employs metaphors of life as a journey, spiritual warfare, and divine judgment. It surv…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-450 English translation exists
Discourse 59 by Isaac of Nineveh is a late 7th-century Syriac ascetical treatise that critiques asceticism motivated by vain glory, contrasting it with genuine devotion…
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Syriac · Late 5th/early 6th century… · dsc-378
Discourse 5: On Simplicity is part of a series of thirteen discourses by Philoxenos of Mabbug, a Miaphysite bishop active in the late 5th to early 6th century. The disco…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-397 English translation exists
Discourse 6 by Isaac of Nineveh is a late 7th-century Syriac ascetical homily on solitude, prayer, and the stages of spiritual life. It survives in a single 10th- or 11t…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-451 English translation exists
Discourse 60, part of Isaac of Nineveh's second volume of ascetical writings, explores the theme of divine hidden help for saints. It contrasts saints who seek miraculou…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-452 partly translated elsewhere
Discourse 61 of Isaac of Nineveh is a late 7th-century Syriac ascetical treatise from the Church of the East, composed after Isaac's retirement to the monastery of Rabba…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-453
Discourse 62 by Isaac of Nineveh, a late 7th-century Syriac monastic text, survives in a single manuscript (Vat. Syr. 125) with scribal corrections and marginalia. It pr…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-454
Discourse 63, attributed to Isaac of Nineveh (7th c. CE), is a Syriac ascetical text exploring the soul's purification and elevation through renunciation. It employs rhe…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-455
Discourse 64, part of Isaac of Nineveh's second collection, is a late 7th-century Syriac monastic text on ascetic psychology and prayer. It explores the discernment of s…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-457 English translation exists
Discourse 66, part of Isaac of Nineveh's First Part, is a Syriac ascetic treatise composed between 660 and 680 CE during Isaac's monastic retirement in Beth Qatraye. It…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-458
Discourse 67 by Isaac of Nineveh, part of his First Part, explores a systematic ontology of spiritual perception, defining intellect, vision, power, natures, passions, a…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-459 partly translated elsewhere
Discourse 68 of Isaac of Nineveh is a late 7th-century Syriac ascetical text composed during Isaac's retirement at Rabban Shapur. It explores the limitations of spiritua…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-460 partly translated elsewhere
Discourse 69 is a lengthy ascetical homily from Isaac of Nineveh's second volume (Part II), composed in Syriac during the late 7th century. It explores the hesychastic p…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-398 English translation exists
Discourse 7 of Isaac of Nineveh, from his first volume (Part I), explores two kinds of trust in God—wise and foolish—using the example of a servant who abandons worldly…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-461
Discourse 70 is a chapter from Isaac of Nineveh's second volume, the Ktābā d-tellāyātā, composed in the late 7th century during his retirement at Rabban Shabur. The disc…
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Syriac · Late 7th century CE · dsc-462 English translation exists
Discourse 71, part of Isaac of Nineveh's second corpus, survives in a single 8th–9th century Syriac manuscript (ms. 7a) with scribal corrections and marginalia. Written…
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