The thirteen Discourses of Philoxenos of Mabbug (445-523) were delivered to new monks at a monastery under his episcopal care. Written in elegant Syriac, the Discourses deal with the fundamentals of t
Intentionally anonymous and lacking concrete details of historical and cultural setting - and for many years suspected of messalianism - this collection of thirty memre Ydiscourses‥ has been long reco
Among the earliest writings in Syriac literature is the collection of 30 memre or discourses entitled the Book of Steps or Liber Graduum, most probably written in the late fourth century inside the Pe
