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Latest revision as of 22:01, 1 April 2006
This is a work in 30 chapters, dealing with matters of interest to those involved in the spiritual life. The author almost certainly lived in the Persian empire, as there is a reference to the river Zab, a tributary of the Tigris. His name is not known to us. He seems to have written in the late 4th century, or possibly just into the early 5th century.
Bibliography
- Michael Kmosko (ed.), Patrologia Syriaca 3. Paris (1926), with Latin preface.
- Robert A. Kitchen and Martien F. G. Parmentier. The Book of Steps: The Syriac Liber Graduum, Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Robert A. Kitchen and Martien F. G. Parmentier, Cistercian Studies Series 196, Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications (2004). ISBN 0879076968
- Fiona Joy Parsons, The nature of the Gospel quotations in the Syriac Liber Graduum. PhD Thesis, University of Birmingham (1968)
Links
- Anne Seville, Review of Kitchen translation Hugoye 8.2 (2005)
