ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

Abbreviations used in the footnotes are followed with full bibliographical references.

TRANSLATIONS OF ISAAC THE SYRIAN’S WRITINGS QUOTED IN THE PRESENT STUDY

PART I

I	The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian, D. Miller, trans. Boston, Massachusetts 1984.
Mystic Treaties	Mystic Treaties by Isaac of Nineveh, translated from Bedjan’s Syriac text with an introduction and registers by A. J. Wensinck. Amsterdam 1923.

PART II

II	Isaac of Nineveh [Isaac the Syrian], ‘The Second Part’, Chapters IV-XLI, Sebastian Brock, trans. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 555, Scriptores syri 225. Louvain 1995.
Gnost.Chapt.	Gnostic Chapters. Unpublished.

ORIGINAL (EAST SYRIAN) TEXTS OF SAINT ISAAC’S WRITINGS

PR	Mar Isaacus Ninevita, De perfectione religiosa, quam edidit Paulus Bedjan. Leipzig 1909.
Isaac, Part II	Isaac of Nineveh [Isaac the Syrian], ‘The Second Part’, Chapters IV-XLI, edited by Sebastian Brock, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 554, Scriptores syri 224. Louvain 1995.

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Ammonius, Letters	M. Kmosko. Ammonii eremitae epistulae, Patrologia Orientalis 10, 6. Paris 1914. Pp. 407–419.
Aphrahat, Demonstrations	I. Parisot. Aphraatis Sapientis Persae Demonstrationes, Patrologia Syriaca 1–2. Paris 1894–1907.
Apophthegmata	Apophthegmata patrum, collectio alphabetica: Patrologia Graeca 65:71–440.
Asketika	Isaak tou Syrou eurethenta asketika. Leipzig 1792.
Athanasius of Alexandria, The Life of Saint Antony	Athanase d’Alexandrie. La vie de saint Antoine, ed. G. J. M. Barterlink, Sources Chrétiennes 400. Paris 1994.
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Baumstark, Anton. Geschichte der syrischen Literatur. Bonn 1922.

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Beulay, R. L’enseignement spirituel de Jean de Dalyatha, mystique syro-oriental du VIIIe siècle. Paris 1990..

____. La lumière sans forme. Introduction à l’étude de la mystique chrétienne syro-orientale. Chevetogne 1987.

Brock, Sebastian P. ‘Isaac of Nineveh: Some Newly Discovered Works’, Sobornost/Eastern Churches Review 8:1 (1986) 28–33.

____. ‘Lost—and found: Part II of the Works of St Isaac of Nineveh’, Studia Patristica 19:4 (1990) 230–233.

_____. ‘St Isaac of Nineveh’, The Assyrian 3:6 (London, 1986) 8–9.

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