D. Kruisheer, ‘A Bibliographical Clavis to the Works of Jacob of Edessa (revised and expanded)’, in B. ter Haar Romeny (ed.), Jacob of Edessa and the Syriac Culture of His Day (Monographs of the Peshitta Institute Leiden 18; Leiden: Brill, 2008), 265–293.

D. Kruisheer, ‘Ephrem, Jacob of Edessa, and the Monk Severus. An Analysis of Ms. Vat. Syr. 103, ff. 1–72’, in R. Lavenant (ed.), Symposium Syriacum VII (Orientalia Christiana Analecta 256; Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 1998), 599–605.

D. Kruisheer, ‘Reconstructing Jacob of Edessa’s Scholia’, in J. Frishman and L. Van Rompay (eds.), The Book of Genesis in Jewish and Oriental Christian Interpretation. A Collection of Essays (Traditio Exegetica Graeca 5; Leuven: Peeters, 1997), 187–196.

The volumes discussed here comprise the edition and translation of Memra I of Barhebraeus’s Ethicon; Memre II-IV – which represent some four-fifths of the entire text – are to follow.

Theodore bar Koni’s description of the sects of the Kantaeans, the Dostaeans and the Nerigaeans in his Ktābā d-’Eskolyon (ed. Scher 1912 [CSCO/Syr. s2 66 = CSCO 68/Syr. 26] 342:6-347:21) is subjected to a systematic reading. The doctrines described must be characterized as Gnostic. Parallels are adduced from Mandaic literature, tradition, and l…[Read more]