Here Syrian Orthodox Patriarch and scholar Ignatius Aphrem I Barsoum (1887-1957) presents an annotated edition, with introduction, of one of the Arabic treatises on the soul by Barhebraeus.

This study is set as a theological look at Ephrem the Syrian. After a general introduction, the author systematically examines a number of theological topics based on Ephrem’s poetry. The Syriac passages cited are also translated.

Kugener here gives an edition of the Syriac text, along with a thoroughly annotated French translation, of this unique astronomical and meteorological treatise attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite and later used in the 13th cent. by Jacob bar Shakko.

A selection of essays on magic and divination in relation to the biblical world, including Mesopotamian demonology, Akkadian literary influences, exorcism, healing, calendars, astrology, bibliomancy, dreams, ritual magic, priestly divination, prophecy, magic in the Christian Apocrypha and the New Testament, magic in rabbinic literature, and Jewish Aramaic magic bowls.

John Henry Jowett directs his exegesis of the Pauline epistles for the everyday consideration of challenges and grace. Study chapters are organized by verse.

This work contains inscriptions from the Ramesseum in Thebes and the tomb of Ptahhotep at Thebes, as well as the archaeological work of 1896 in Egypt.

This work consists of the first architectural description of the Temple of Seti I at Abydos, reporting the first full excavation of 1902.

Description of the excavations of several places in north-eastern Egypt in 1906

Report of the 1900 excavations of Abydos, which discovered some of the oldest Egyptian artwork

A full text is provided, with Latin preface and critical notes, of the works of this second-century Christian philosopher, Athenagoras. It also includes an apology for Christianity addressed to the Emperors, and an essay on the rationality of the resurrection of the dead.