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For individual saints' lives not in major collections (e.g., John of Ephesus, Lives ) see under Vita ___.

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Acta sanctorum martyrum orientalium . Edited by J. S. Assemani. Pars 2. Rome, 1748.

Anan-Isho. The Book of Paradise: Being the Histories and Sayings of the Monks and Ascetics of the Egyptian Desert. The Syrian Texts, According to the Recension of Anan-Isho of Beth Abhe . 2 vols. Edited and translated by E. A. Wallis Budge. London, 1904.

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Cyril of Scythopolis. Vitae. In Kyrillos von Skythopolis . Edited by E. Schwartz. TU 49.2. Leipzig, 1939. Also in Les moines de Palestine, Les moines d'Orient 3.1–3. Translated by A.-J. Festugière. Paris, 1962–63.

Doctrine of Addai . Edited and translated by G. Phillips. London, 1876. Also in The Teaching of Addai . Retranslated by G. Howard. Missoula, 1981.

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Ephrem Syrus. Des heiligen Ephraem des syrers carmina Nisibena 1–2. Edited and translated by E. Beck, CSCO 218/92, 219/93, 240/102, 241/103. Louvain, 1961–63.

Ephrem Syrus. Des heiligen Ephraem des syrers hymnen de fide . Edited and translated by E. Beck, CSCO 154/73, 155/74. Louvain, 1955.

Ephrem Syrus. Des heiligen Ephraem des syrers sermones 1. Edited and translated by E. Beck, CSCO 305/130, 306/131. Louvain, 1970.

Ephrem Syrus. Ephraim the Syrian, Hymns and Homilies . Translated by J. Gwynn, SLNPNF 13, 165–344. Oxford, 1898.

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[Ephrem Syrus?] Des heiligen Ephraem des syrers hymnen auf Abraham Kidunaya und Julianos Saba . Edited and translated by E. Beck, CSCO 322/140, 323/141. Louvain, 1972.

Epiphanius of Salamis. Adversus Haereses (Panarion) . Edited by K. Holl, GCS 25, 31, 37. Leipzig, 1915–33.

Euphemia and the Goth with the Acts of Martyrdom of the Confessors of Edessa, Shmona, Guria and Habib . Edited and translated by F. C. Burkitt. London and Oxford, 1913.

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Evagrius Scholasticus. Historia ecclesiastica . Edited by J. Bidez and L. Parmentier. London, 1898; New York, 1979. Translated by A.-J. Festugière. Byzantion 45 (1975):187–471.

"The Fenqitho of the Monastery of Mar Gabriel in Tur Abdin." Edited and translated by S. P. Brock. Östkirchliche Studien 28 (1979): 168–82.

Gregory of Nazianzus. Saint Grégoire de Nazianze, Lettres . 2 vols. Edited and translated by P. Gallay. Paris, 1967.

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Gregory of Nyssa. Opera . 8 vols. Edited by W. Jaeger. Leiden, 1959.

The History of the Blessed Virgin, and the History of the Likeness of Christ Which the Jews of Tiberias Made to Mock At . Edited and translated by E. A. Wallis Budge. Vols. 4 and 5, Luzac's Semitic Text and Translation Series. London, 1899.

Holy Women of the Syrian Orient . Translated by S. P. Brock and S. A. Harvey. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1987.

"Une hymne nestorienne sur les saintes femmes." Edited and translated by J.-M. Fiey. Anal. Boll. 84 (1966): 77–110.

Isaac the Syrian. The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian . Translated by Holy Transfiguration Monastery [D. Miller]. Boston, 1984.

Jacob of Edessa. Chronicon . Edited and translated by E. W. Brooks, CSCO 5/5, 6/6. Paris, 1905–1907.

Jews and Christians in Egypt: The Jewish Troubles in Alexandria and the Athanasian Controversy . Edited and translated by H. I. Bell. London, 1924; Westport, 1976. (Documents).

John of Ephesus. Ioannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae fragmenta quae e prima et secunda parte supersunt . Edited by E. W. Brooks, CSCO 104/53, 402–20. Louvain, 1965.

John of Ephesus. "Analyse de la seconde partie inédite de l'Histoire Ecclesiastique de Jean d'Asie, patriarchs jacobite de Constantinople (585)." Edited by F. Nau. ROC 2 (1897): 455–93.

John of Ephesus. Ioannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia . Edited and translated by E. W. Brooks, CSCO 105/54, 106/55. Paris, 1935–36.

John of Ephesus. Lives of the Eastern Saints . Edited and translated by E. W. Brooks. PO

17–19. Paris, 1923–25. Also in Commentarii de beatis orientalibus . Translated by J. P. N. Land and W. J. van Douwen. Amsterdam, 1889.

John Moschus. Ioannis Moschi pratum spirituale. PG 87.3, cols. 2851–3112. Also in Jean Moschus, Le pré spirituel . Translated by M.-J. Rouët de Journel. Sources Chrétiennes. Paris, 1946.

John of Nikiu. Chronicle . Edited and translated by R. H. Charles. London, 1916; 1981.

John Rufus. Plérophories, témoignages et révélations contre le concile de Chalcédoine . Edited and translated by F. Nau. PO 8:5–208. Paris, 1912.

John the Stylite of Beth-Mar-Qanun. Select Narrations of Holy Women . Edited and translated by A. Smith Lewis. Studia Sinaitica 9–10. London, 1900.

"Joshua the Stylite." Chronicle . Edited and translated by W. Wright. Cambridge, 1882.

Lucian. Opera . 8 vols., LCL. Edited and translated by A. H. Harmon. London/ Cambridge (Mass.), 1969.

Lucian. Lucian, The Syrian Goddess (De dea syria) . Translated by H. W. Attridge and R. A. Oden. Missoula, 1976.

"A Martyr at the Sasanid Court under Vahran II: Candida." Edited and translated by S. P. Brock. Anal. Boll. 96 (1978): 167–81. (= Brock, S. P. Syriac Perspectives, chap. 9.)

Michael the Syrian. Chronique de Michel le syrien . 3 vols. Edited and translated by J.-B. Chabot. Paris, 1899–1905.

The Nag Hammadi Library in English . 2d ed., ed. J. M. Robinson. San Francisco, 1988.

Narrationes variae . Edited and translated by E. W. Brooks, CSCO 5/5:259–63 and 6/6:331–35. Paris, 1905–1907.

Nessana Papyri . In Excavations at Nessana . Vol. 3, Non-Literary Papyri . Edited and translated by C. J. Kraemer, Jr. Princeton, 1958.

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Palladius. Historia Lausiaca . In The Lausiac History of Palladius . 2 vols. Edited and translated by C. Butler. Cambridge, 1898–1904. Also in Palladius: The Lausiac History . Translated by R. T. Meyer. Ancient Christian Writers 34. London, 1965. For the Syriac versions, Les formes syriaques de la matière de l'histoire lausiaque . 2 vols. Edited and translated by R. Draguet, CSCO 389/169, 398/ 173. Louvain, 1978.

Patrologiae cursus completus, Series Graeca . Edited by J. P. Migne. Paris, 1867–1934.

Patrologia Orientalis . Edited by R. Graffin, F. Nau, and F. Graffin. Paris, 1907-.

Piacenza Pilgrim. Travels . Edited by P. Geyer, CSEL 39, 159–91. Vienna, 1898. (= CSL 175, 127–53.) Also in Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades, 79–89. Translated by J. Wilkinson. Jerusalem, 1977.

Procopius. Opera . 7 vols., LCL. Edited and translated by H. B. Dewing. London, 1961. (Wars, vols. 1–5; Anecdota, vol. 6; Buildings, vol. 7.)

Pseudo-Dionysius of Tell-Mahre. Incerti auctoris chronicon anonymum pseudo-Dionysianum vulgo dictum . Edited and translated by J.-B. Chabot, CSCO 91/43, 121/66, and 104/53. Louvain, 1927–49; 1933.

Les saints stylites . Edited and translated by H. Delehaye, Sub. Hag. 14. Bruxelles, 1923.

Severus of Antioch. Les homiliae cathedrales de Sévère d'Antioche, Homélie 77 . Edited and translated by M.-A. Kugener and E. Triffaux, PO 16:761–863. Paris, 1922.

Severus of Antioch. "Sévère d'Antioche en Égypte." Edited and translated by W. E. Crum. ROC 3 (1922–23): 92–104. [Coptic fragments]

Severus of Antioch. The Sixth Book of Select Letters of Severus, Patriarch of Antioch by Athanasius of Nisibis . 4 vols. Edited and translated by E. W. Brooks. Oxford, 1902; 1969.

Simeon the Stylite. "The Letters of Simeon the Stylite." Edited and translated by C. C. Torrey. JAOS 20 (1899): 253–76.

Socrates. Historia ecclesiastica . Edited by J. Bidez and G. C. Hansen, GCS 50. Berlin, 1960.

Sozomen. Historia ecclesiastica . Edited by J. Bidez and G. C. Hansen, GCS 50. Berlin, 1960.

Syriac and Arabic Documents Regarding Legislation Relative to Syrian Asceticism . Edited and translated by A. Vööbus, PETSE 11. Stockholm, 1960.

The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life . Translated by S. P. Brock, Cistercian Studies 101. Kalamazoo, 1987.

Tertullian. Adversus Marcionem . Edited by A. Kroymann, CSEL 47. Vienna, 1906.

Tertullian. De cultu feminarum . Edited by A. Kroymann, CSEL 70, 59–88. Vienna, 1942.

Tertullian. De praescriptione haereticorum . Edited by A. Kroymann, CSEL 70, 1–58. Vienna, 1942.

Theodoret of Cyrrhus. Historia religiosa . In Théodoret de Cyr, Historie des moines de syrie . Edited and translated by P. Canivet and A. Leroy-Molinghen. Sources Chrétiennes 234, 257. Paris, 1977–79. Also in Theodoret of Cyrrhus, A History of the Monks of Syria . Translated by R. M. Price, Cistercian Studies 88. Kalamazoo, 1985.

Thomas of Marga. Historia monastica . In The Book of Governors: The Historia Monastica of Thomas Bishop of MargaA.D. 840. 2 vols. Edited and translated by E. A. Wallis Budge. London, 1893.

Three Byzantine Saints . Translated by E. A. Dawes and N. Baynes. Oxford, 1948; London, 1977.

Vita Abraami (Cyril of Scythopolis). Edited by E. Schwartz, TU 49.2, 244–47. Also in Les moines d'Orient 3.3, 73–79. Translated by A.-J. Festugière. Paris, 1962–63.

Vita Alexii . In La légende syriaque de Saint Alexis l'homme de Dieu . Edited and translated by A. Amiaud. Paris, 1889.

Vita Antonii. PG 26, cols. 837–976. Also in The Life of Antony . Translated by R. T. Meyer. Ancient Christian Writers 10. London, 1950. And in Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus . Translated by R. C. Gregg. New York, 1980. For the Syriac version, La Vie primitive de S. Antoine . Edited and translated by R. Draguet, CSCO 417/183, 418/184. Louvain, 1980.

Vita Danielis Stylitae . In Les Saints Stylites, edited by H. Delehaye, 1–94. Also in Three Byzantine Saints, translated by E. Dawes and N. Baynes, 1–71.

Vita Euthymii (Cyril of Scythopolis). Edited by E. Schwartz, TU 49.2, 3–85. Also in Les moines d'Orient 3.1. Translated by A.-J. Festugière. Paris, 1962.

Vita Febroniae (Thomaïs). AMS 5:573–615. Also in Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, translated by S. P. Brock and S. A. Harvey, 150–76.

Vita Iacobi Baradaei . In "A Spurious Life of James." Edited and translated by E. W. Brooks, PO 19:228–68. Paris, 1925.

Vita Iohannis Eleemosynarii (Leontius of Neapolis). In Leontios' von Neapolis leben des heiligen Johannes des Barmherzigen erzbishofs von Alexandrien . Edited by H. Gelzer. Freiburg/Leipzig, 1893. Also in Three Byzantine Saints, translated by E. Dawes and N. Baynes, 207–62.

Vita Iohannis Episcopi Tellae (Elias). Edited and translated by E. W. Brooks, CSCO 7/7: 29–95 and 8/8: 21–60. Paris, 1907.

Vita Iohannis Hesychasti (Cyril of Scythopolis). Edited by E. Schwartz, TU 49.2, 201–22. Also in Les moines d'Orient, 3.3, 13–34. Translated by A.-J. Festugière. Paris, 1962–63.

Vita Isaiae Monachi (Zachariah Rhetor). Edited and translated by E. W. Brooks, CSCO 717: 1–16 and 8/8: 1–10. Paris, 1907.

Vita Kyriaki (Cyril of Scythopolis). Edited by E. Schwartz, TU 49.2, 222–35. Also in Les moines d'Orient, 3.3, 39–52. Translated by A.-J. Festugière. Paris, 1907.

Vita Macrinae (Gregory of Nyssa). Edited by V. W. Callahan. In Greg. Ny., Opera, edited by W. Jaeger, 8.1, 347–414.

Vita Pelagiae (Jacob the Deacon). AMS 6:616–49. For the versions, Pélagie la pénitente: Metamorphoses d'une legende . Vol. 1, Les textes et leur histoire . Edited by P. Petitmengin. Études Augustiniennes. Paris, 1981. Also in Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, translated by S. P. Brock and S. A. Harvey, 40–62.

Vita Petri Iberi (John Rufus). In Petrus der Iberer . Edited and translated by R. Raabe. Leipzig, 1895.

Vita Sabae (Cyril of Scythopolis). Edited by E. Schwartz, TU 49.2, 85–200. Also in Les moines d'Orient, 3.2. Translated by A.-J. Festugière. Paris, 1962.

Vita Severi (Athanasius Scriptor). In "Athanasius Scriptor of Antioch, The Conflict of Severus ." Edited and translated by E. J. Goodspeed and W. E. Crum, PO 4 (1908): 575–726.

Vita Severi (John of Beith-Aphthonia). In "Vie de Sévère par Jean de Beith-Aphthonia." Edited and translated by M.-A. Kugener, PO 2:204–64. Paris, 1907.

Vita Severi (Zachariah Rhetor). In "Vie de Sévère, Patriarche d'Antioche 512–518 par Zacharie le scholastique." Edited and translated by M.-A. Kugener, PO 2:7–115. Paris, 1907.

Vita Simeonis Stylitae . In Das leben des heiligen Symeon Stylites, Edited by H. Lietz-

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Vita Simeonis Stylitae Iunioris . In La vie ancienne de S. Syméon Stylite le jeune (521–592 ). 2 vols. Edited and translated by P. Van den Ven, Sub. Hag. 32. Bruxelles, 1962–70.

Vita Theodosii (Cyril of Scythopolis). Edited by E. Schwartz, TU 49.2, 235–41. Also in Les moines d'Orient, 3.3, 57–62. Translated by A.-J. Festugière. Paris, 1907.

Vita Theognii (Cyril of Scythopolis). Edited by E. Schwartz, TU 49.2, 241–43. Also in Les moines d'Orient, 3.3, 65–67. Translated by A.-J. Festugière. Paris, 1907.

Vitae virorum apud Monophysitas celeberrimorum . Edited and translated by E. W. Brooks, CSCO 7/7, 8/8. Paris, 1907.

Women in the Early Church . Translated by E. A. Clark. Wilmington, 1983.

Zachariah Rhetor. Historia ecclesiastica Zachariae Rhetori vulgo adscripta . Edited and translated by E. W. Brooks, CSCO 83/38, 84/39, 87/41, 88/42. Louvain and Paris, 1919–24. Also in The Syriac Chronicle Known as that of Zachariah of Mitylene . Translated by F. J. Hamilton and E. W. Brooks. London, 1899; New York, 1979.