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Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Syriac Literature.

The purpose of this site is to make it possible to create a guide to Syriac literature.

A. The 1st to 3rd centuries A.D.

The most obscure period of Syriac literature.

1. Peshitta Old Testament
2. The Diatessaron
3. The Old Syriac Gospels
4. Bardaisan
5. The Odes of Solomon
6. The Acts of Thomas
7. Pseudo-Melito's Apology
8. The Syriac Sentences of Menander
9. The Letter of Mara
10. The Story of the 'Aramaean sage' Ahikar

B. The 4th century A.D.

1. Aphrahat
2. Ephrem (Ephraim Syrus)
3. Liber Graduum (The Book of Steps)

C. The 5th to mid-7th centuries A.D.

5th century

1. Cyrillona
2. Balai
3. John the Solitary (John of Apamea)
4. Anonymous prose hagiography

5-6th century

1. Jacob of Serugh
2. Simeon the Potter
3. Philoxenus
4. Isaac of Antioch
5. Symmachus

6th century

1. Ps.Joshua the Stylite
2. Stephen bar Sudhaili
3. Sergius of Resh'aina
4. Simeon of Beth Arsham
5. Elias
6. Daniel of Salah
7. Cyrus of Edessa
8. Thomas of Edessa
9. The Chronicle of Edessa
10. John of Ephesus
11. Peter of Kallinikos
12. Ps.Zacharias Rhetor
13. Ahudemmeh
14. Abraham of Nathpar
15. Anonymous literature of the 6th century

6-7th century

1. Barhadbeshabba 'Arbaya
2. Barhadbeshabba of Halwan
3. Shubhalmaran
4. Babai the Great
5. Martyrius (Sahdona)
6. Isho'Yahb II
7. John of the Sedre
8. Marutha
9. Gregory of Cyprus
10. Anonymous literature of the early 7th century

D. Mid-7th to 13th century A.D.

In the middle of the 7th century, the Syriac-speaking world was occupied by the Arabs.

Second half of the 7th century

1. Severus Sebokht
2. Gabriel of Qatar
3. Abraham bar Lipeh of Qatar
4. The Khuzistan Chronicle
5. Isho'Yahb III
6. Isaac of Nineveh (Isaac the Syrian)
7. Shem'on the graceful (Shem'on d-Taybutheh)
8. Dadisho'
9. John bar Penkaye
10. The Apocalypse of Ps.Methodius
11. Hagiography of the 7th century

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