Mystic Treatises by Isaac of Nineveh (PDF)

Translated from Bedjan's Syriac Text with an introduction and registers by A. J. Wensinck.

Posted: Friday, January 13, 2012 at 11:19 AM UTC

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Isaac of Nineveh, Mystic Treatises

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Translated by Arent Jan Wensinck (d. 1939).

Published in Amsterdam in 1923.

The author is also known as Isaac the Syrian, and the work as the Ascetical Homilies.

This first series of treatises was very popular and was translated from Syriac into Greek and other languages.

A second series of mystical treatises does exist in Syriac and was recently discovered and translated by Sebastian Brock.

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