Sebastian P. Brock
Author of The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of Saint Ephrem
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Works by Sebastian P. Brock
The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life (Cistercian Studies) (1987) 123 copies, 1 review
Treasure-house of Mysteries: Explorations of the Sacred Text through Poetry in the Syriac Tradition, PPS 45 (Popular Patristics) (2012) 67 copies
Two Early Lives of Severos, Patriarch of Antioch (Liverpool University Press - Translated Texts for Historians) (2013) 13 copies
Studies in Syriac Christianity: History, Literature and Theology (Collected Studies Series Cs357) (English, Syriac and Syriac Edition) (1992) 12 copies
The Old Testament in Syriac According to the Peshitta Version: Isaiah (Vol. 3, Part 1) (1993) 4 copies
From Ephrem to Romanos: Interactions between Syriac and Greek in Late Antiquity (Variorum Collected Studies) (1999) 3 copies
The Stanzaic Poems of Jacob of Serugh: A Collection of His Madroshe and Sughyotho (Texts from Christian Late Antiquity) (2022) 3 copies
A Classified Bibliography of the Septuagint (Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristentums) (1973) 3 copies
The Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Nonnos Mythological Scholia (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications) (1971) 2 copies
The Wisdom of Saint Isaac the Syrian — Translator — 2 copies
The People and the Peoples: Syriac Dialogue Poems from Late Antiquity: 3 (Journal of Jewish Studies Supplement Series) (2019) 2 copies
A Note on Luke IX. 16 (D) 1 copy
Daily Readings With St. Isaac of Syria — Translator — 1 copy
Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts and Fragments in the Library of Deir al-Surian, Wadi al-Natrun (Egypt) (2014) 1 copy
Catalogue of Syriac Fragments (New Finds) in the Library of the Monastery of St. Catherine, Mount Sinai (1995) 1 copy
The Hidden Pearl Volume III: At the Turn of the Third Millennium; The Syrian Orthodox Witness 1 copy
Miscellanea 1 copy
Associated Works
The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 13: The Late Empire, A.D. 337–425 (1998) — Contributor — 83 copies
The Harp of the Spirit: Poems of Saint Ephrem the Syrian (1984) — Translator, some editions — 31 copies
It Is Written: Scripture Citing Scripture: Essays in Honour of Barnabas Lindars, SSF (1988) — Contributor — 30 copies
From Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East (2009) — Contributor — 23 copies
Ephrem the Syrian: Select Poems (Brigham Young University - Eastern Christian Texts) (2007) — Translator, some editions — 23 copies
The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor: Church and War in Late Antiquity (Liverpool University Press - Translated Texts for Historians) (2011) — Contributor — 21 copies
Biblical & Near Eastern Essays (Library Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) (2004) — Contributor — 12 copies
Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Texts: Essays in Memory of Michael P. Weitzman (2001) — Contributor — 11 copies
Isaac Of Nineveh (Isaac The Syrian): The Second Part, Chapters IV-XLI [Text] (1995) — Translator, some editions — 8 copies
Biblical Traditions in Transmission: Essays in Honour of Michael A. Knibb (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism) (2006) — Contributor — 5 copies
Bibel, Byzanz und Christlicher Orient: Festschrift für Stephen Gerö zum 65. Geburtstag (2011) — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Brock, Sebastian Paul
- Birthdate
- 1938
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Cambridge (BA)
University of Oxford (DPhil) - Relationships
- Hughes-Brock, Helen (wife)
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The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of Saint Ephrem (Cistercian Studies, No 124) by Sebastian Brock
This is the best little introduction to Ephrem the Syrian and his writing. Sebastian Brock writes as life-long scholar of Syriac, thoroughly inspired by Ephrem. If you need to know that theology is beautiful, read this.
Philoxenus of Mabbug (Syriac: ܐܟܣܢܝܐ ܡܒܘܓܝܐ, Aksenāyâ Mabûḡāyâ) (died 523) was one of the most notable Syriac prose writers and a vehement champion of Miaphysitism.
Sebastian Brock is Reader in Syriac Studies in the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fellow of Wolfson College. He has written extensively on Syriac subjects and served on the translation panel which produced The Psalms: A New Translation for Worship (1977). He is a member of the Editorial Board of Sobornost/Eastern Churches Review, and is curator of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts at the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham. Before taking up his present position, Dr. Brock taught in show more the Department of Theology at the University of Birmingham and in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge. show less
THE LUMINOUS EYE [POP (JCC) 270.2092 BROCK]: THE SPIRITUAL WORLD VISION OF SAINT EPHREM by Sebastian Brock
SERIES: CISTERCIAN STUDIES SERIES (NO. 124); CHAPTER NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEXES: BIBLICAL REFERENCES; PASSAGES ON EPHREM; SYRIAC AND GREEK WRITERS; NAMES AND SUBJECTS; GREED, HEBREW, AND SYRIAC TERMS
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