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Questions of the Brothers, the Syriac translation of Basil of Caesarea's Small Asketikon, is edited for the first time from ancient manuscripts and translated into English. Silvas highlights the unique character of the Syriac translator's own contribution to the text

The volume contains contributions dedicated to the personality and the work of Shalva Nutsubidze, Christian Orient from the fifth to the seventh century, Georgian eleventh century, the Neoplatonic philosopher Ioane Petritsi and his epoch and Shota Rustaveli and mediaeval Georgian culture.

In The Ethiopian Homily on the Ark of the Covenant, Amsalu Tefera offers a critical edition and English translation of a lengthy fifteenth century Ethiopian text which recounts the activities of the Ark, interpreting them primarily in a Mariological manner.

This is a thoroughly revised and expanded version of the first edition of the Arabic version of Dimitrie Cantemir's The Divan or the Sage's Dispute with the World, achieved in 1705 by Athanasios Dabbās, Patriarch of the Antiochian Church.

The present volume is the first ever English translation of the Book of Union by Babai the Great, one of the foremost theologians of the Assyrian Church of the East. It is accompanied by introductions and an edited Syriac text.