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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. Philoxenus

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