This book is a collection of articles written by the eminent scholar and Syrian Orthodox Patriarch Ephrem Barsaum. The "Lighthouse" in the book is meant to refer to the thought of Patriarch Barsaum: like a lighthouse, every researcher, scholar, or reader of Syriac must turn towards it for guidance. The articles in this volume display Barsoum's characteristic erudition and scholarly thoroughness and cover a wide variety of topics, all related to the history of the various Syriac-speaking churches and the churches of Antioch, in addition to other Middle Eastern Churches.

Philoxenos Yuhanna Dolabani (1885-1969), Metropolitan of Mardin, was an important figure in the Syrian Orthodox church in the twentieth century and a prolific scholar, most of whose works remain unpublished and unknown to Western scholarship. Bishop Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim has here given us a biography of this key figure.

This volume is a translation into Arabic of the papers and discussions published as part of the Pro-Oriente ecumenical consultation between members of Roman Catholic, Chaldean Catholic, Syro-Malankar, Syrian Orthodox, Maronite, and Assyrian Orthodox Churches, originally published in Vienna in 1994. Many of the papers in this volume are commentaries by members of the various churches represented at the consultation on the joint declaration issued by Pope John Paul II and Patriarch Denha IV. A number of other papers seeks to address the question of whether the Council of Ephesus unites or...

This book is a translation into Arabic of The Vienna dialogue: Five Pro Oriente consulations with oriental Orthodoxy: communiqes and common declarations, edited by Rudolf Kirchschla]ger and Alfred Stirnemann (Horn, Austria, 1991); it contains a number of documents written by both Roman Catholic and Oriental Orthodox churchmen connected to the question of the relationship between these churches.

This book is a translation into Arabic of The Vienna Dialogue: five Pro Oriente consultations with Oriental Orthodoxy/ Middle East Regional Symposium, Deir Amba Bishoy, October 1991 (Vienna, 1991) and contains a number of articles by Roman Catholic and Oriental Orthodox churchmen connected to the question of the relationship between these churches.

A collection of twenty five poems. It features an introduction that offers biographical information about the life of the author, his birth in Tur 'Abdin, his time in Adana, Beirut, Damascus, Brazil, and his activities in Aleppo.

Collects 20 of the most beautiful memre of Jacob of Sarugh. This title is suitable for students of the poetry.

Suitable for third-graders, this book introduces basic outlines of the Life of Christ covering all the major events from the Annunciation to Pentecostuin language they can understand.

A collection of poems and essays. It focuses on the persistence and resilience of the Syriac language in the face of the tragedies of the twentieth century and the determination of Syriac-speakers to keep the language of Ephrem, Aphrahat and Michael the Great a vibrant and living idiom.

Discusses the contribution of the areas of al-Raqqa (Kallinikos) and Diyar Mudar to translation into the Arabic language; the importance of Christian monasteries in the region of the Jazira for the history of translation of Greek receives special emphasis.