Syriac Tools

Texts & Collections:

Bensly, R. ed. The Epistles of S. Clement to the Corinthians in Syriac. Cambridge: University Press, 1899. (pdf)

Bensly, R. ed. The Fourth Book of Maccabees and Kindred Documents in Syriac. Cambridge: University Press, 1895. (pdf)

Budge, E. The Laughable Stories Collected by Mar Gregory John Bar Hebraeus. London: Luzac, 1897. (pdf)

Burge, E. The History of Alexander the Great being the Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Callisthenes. Cambridge: University Press, 1889. (pdf)

Cureton, W. Ancient Syriac Documents Relative to the Earliest Establishment of Christianity in Edessa and the Neighbouring Countries. London: Williams and Norgate, 1864. (pdf)

Cureton, W. History of the Martyrs in Palestine. London: Williams and Norgate, 1861. (pdf)

Cureton, W. Remains of a Very Antient Recension of the Four Gospels in Syriac. London: Murray, 1858. (pdf)

Eusebius of Caesarea. The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius in Syriac. Cambridge: University Press, 1898. (pdf)

Gibson, M. The Commentaries of Isho’dad of Merv, Bishop of Hadatha. Vol. 1. Cambridge: University Press, 1911. (pdf)

Gibson, M. The Commentaries of Isho’dad of Merv, Bishop of Hadatha. Vol. 2. Cambridge: University Press, 1911. (pdf)

Gibson, M. The Commentaries of Isho’dad of Merv, Bishop of Hadatha. Vol. 3. Cambridge: University Press, 1911. (pdf)

Gibson, M. The Didascalia Apostolorum in Syriac. London: Clay, 1903. (pdf)

Gwynn, J. The Apocalypse of St. John in a Syriac version hitherto unknown. Dublin: Hodges, 1897. (pdf)

Hücker, A. Die Syrische Jakobosanaphora nach der Rezension des Ja'qôb(h) von Edessa. Münster: Westf, 1923. (pdf)

Lee, S. On the Theophania, or Divine Manifestation of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. London: Society for the Publication of Oriental Texts, 1842. (pdf)

Lewis, A. A Palestinian Syriac Lectionary. London: Clay, 1897. (pdf)

Lewis, A. The Old Syriac Gospels or Evangelion da-Mepharresh. London: Williams and Norgate, 1910. (pdf)

Mingana, A. Woodbrooke Studies: Christian Documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Garshuni. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Heffer, 1927. (pdf)

Mingana, A. Woodbrooke Studies: Christian Documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Garshuni. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Heffer, 1927. (pdf)

Mingana, A. Woodbrooke Studies: Christian Documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Garshuni. Vol. 3. Cambridge: Heffer, 1927. (pdf)

Phillips, G. A Letter by Mar Jacob, Bishop of Edessa. London: Williams and Norgate, 1869. (pdf)

Robinson, J. The Apology of Aristides. Vol. 1. 2^nd ed. Cambridge: University Press, 1893. (pdf)

Roediger, E. Chrestomathia syriaca quam glossario et tabulis grammaticism. Sazonum, 1892. (pdf)

Sachau, E. Syrische Rechtsbücher. Vol. 1. Berlin: Reimer, 1907. (pdf)

Sachau, E. Syrische Rechtsbücher. Vol. 2. Berlin: Reimer, 1907. (pdf)

Scott-Moncrieff, P. The Book of Consolations; or, The Pastoral Epistles of Mar Isho-yahbh of Kuphlana in Adiabene. London: Luzac, 1904. (pdf)

Smith, P. Extracts from the Ecclesiastical history of John Bishop of Ephesus. Leiden: Brill, 1909. (pdf)

Wensinck, A. Legends of Eastern Saints: Chiefly from Syriac Sources. Vol. 1. The Story of Archelides. Leiden: Brill, 1911. (pdf)

Willis, B. The Book of Governors: the Historia Monastica of Thomas, Bishop of Marga. Vol. 1. London: Trench, 1893. (pdf)

Willis, B. The Book of Governors: the Historia Monastica of Thomas, Bishop of Marga. Vol. 2. London: Trench, 1893. (pdf)

Wright, W. The Book of Jonah in Four Oriental Versions, namely Chaldee, Syriac, Aethiopic, and Arabic. London: Williams and Norgate, 1857. (pdf)

Wright, W and McLean, N. The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius in Syriac. Cambridge: University Press, 1898. (pdf)

Translations:

Benni, C. The Tradition of the Syriac Church of Antioch. London: Burns and Oates, 1871. (pdf)

Brooks, E. The Sixth Book of the Selected Letters of Severus Patriarch of Antioch. Vol 2. London: Williams and Norgate, 1904. (pdf)

Charles, R. The Apocalypse of Baruch. London: Black, 1896. (pdf)

Cureton, W. Vindiciae Ignatianae; or, The Genuine Writings of St. Ignatius. London: Rivingtons, 1846. (pdf)

Gollancz, H. A Selection of Charms from Syriac Manuscripts. London (pdf)

Hamilton, F. and Brooks, E. The Syriac Chronicle Known as that of Zachariah of Mitylene. London: Methuen, 1899. (pdf)

Morris, J. Select Works of S. Ephrem the Syrian. Oxford: Parker, 1847. (pdf)

Perry, S. The Second Synod of Ephesus. Dartford: Kent, 1881. (pdf)

Smith, P. Commentary upon the Gospel according to St. Luke. Vol. 1. Oxford: University Press, 1859. (pdf)

Smith, P. Commentary upon the Gospel according to St. Luke. Vol. 2. Oxford: University Press, 1859. (pdf)

Smith, P. The Third Part of the Ecclesiastical History of John, Biship of Ephesus. Oxford, 1860. (pdf)

Wallis, B. The Discourses of Philoxenus, Bishop of Mabbogh, A.D. 485-519. Vol. 2. London: Asher, 1893. (pdf)

Grammars:

Baethgen, F. Syrische Grammatik des Mar Elias von Tirhan. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1880. (pdf)

Baumstark, A. Geschichte der syrischen Literatur. Bonn: Weber, 1922. (pdf)

Brockelmann, C. Syrische Grammatik. Berlin: Reuther and Reichard, 1912. (pdf)

Gismondi, E. Linguae syriacae grammatica et chrestomathia. Berythus: 1900. (pdf)

Hoffmann, A. The Principles of Syriac Grammar. Trans by Cowper, B. London: Williams and Norgate, 1858. (pdf)

Maclean, A. Grammar of the Dialects of Vernacular Syriac. Cambridge: University Press, 1895. (pdf)

Nestle, E. Syriac Grammar with Bibliography, Chrestomathy and Glossary. Berlin: Reuther, 1889. (pdf)

Phillips, G. Syriac Grammar. 2^nd ed. London: Parker, 1845. (pdf)

Phillips, G. Syriac Grammar. 3^rd ed. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1866. (pdf)

Phillips, G. Syriac Grammar. Cambridge: Deighton, 1837. (pdf)

Saba, P. Syriac Grammar. 1937. In Arabic. (pdf)

Uhlemann, F. Uhlemann’s Syriac Grammar. Trans. by Hutchinson, E. New York: Appleton, 1855. (pdf)

Uhlemann, F. Uhlemann’s Syriac Grammar. Trans. by Hutchinson, E. 2^nd ed. New York: Appleton, 1875. (pdf)

Wilson, R. Introductory Syriac Method and Manual. New York: Scribners, 1891. (pdf)

Lexica:

Brockelmann, C. Lexicon Syriacum. Edinburgh: Clark, 1895. (pdf)

Smith, P. Thesaurus Syriacus. 1879. (pdf)

Smith, P. Thesaurus Syriacus. Vol. 1. 1879. (pdf)

Smith, P. Thesaurus Syriacus. Vol. 2. 1879. (pdf)

Syriac and Semitic Studies:

Brockelmann, C. Geschichte der christlichen Litteraturen des Orients. Leipzig: Amelangs, 1909. (pdf)

Brockelmann, C. Kurzgefasste vergleichende Grammatik der semitischen Sprachen. Berlin: Reuther, 1908. (pdf)

Burkitt, F. Early Eastern Christianity: St. Margaret’s Lectures 1904 on the Syriac-speaking Church. New York: Dutton, 1904. (pdf)

Burkitt, F. The Syriac Forms of New Testament Proper Names. London: Frowde, 1884. (pdf)

Chase, F. The Old Syriac Element in the Text of Codex Bezae. London: Macmillan, 1893. (pdf)

Studia Biblica et ecclesiastica : essays chiefly in Biblical and patristic criticism. Vol. 1. Oxford: Clarendon, 1895. (pdf)

Studia Biblica et ecclesiastica : essays chiefly in Biblical and patristic criticism. Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1895. (pdf)

Studia Biblica et ecclesiastica : essays chiefly in Biblical and patristic criticism. Vol. 3. Oxford: Clarendon, 1895.

Studia Biblica et ecclesiastica : essays chiefly in Biblical and patristic criticism. Vol. 4. Oxford: Clarendon, 1895. (pdf)

Studia Biblica: Essays in Biblical Archaeology and Criticism and Kindred Subjects. Oxford: Clarendon, 1885. (pdf)

Wright, W. A Short History of Syriac Literature. London: Black, 1894. (pdf)

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