Isaac of Nineveh (Isaac the Syrian). “The Second Part”,chapters IV-XLI

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By (author) S. Brock

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Extent: 196 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Language & Linguistics, Religious Studies

Series: Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium

Series volume number: 554, 224

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(January 1995)

ISBN: 9789068317084

Price: $94.00

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Born in Qatar in the early seventh century AD, Isaac of

Niniveh (also known as Isaac the Syrian) was the author of a number of very fine

writings on the spiritual life which have proved very influential, especially in

monastic circles, over the centuries. The first part of his writings was

translated into Greek in the ninth century at the monastery of St Saba in

Palestine, and thence it found its way into many other languages (including in

the twentieth century, Japanese).



In 1983 a complete manuscript of the second part, hitherto only partially known,

was discovered in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and chapters IV-XLI of these new

texts are edited and translated here for the first time. The remaining chapters

I-III, which include four sets of Kephalaia on spiritual knowledge, will be

published subsequently in CSCO by P. Bettiolo.

  • By (author) S. Brock