Tag Archive for 'Ephraim the Syrian'
December 28th, 2012 by Roger Pearse
Adam McCollum has kindly translated for us hymns 23 and 24 from the collection of Hymns against heresies by Ephraim Syrus, and I have placed them in the public domain. Do whatever you like with them, personal, educational or commercial. I’ve uploaded the PDF and RTF files to Archive.org: http://archive.org/details/EphremSyrusHymnsAgainstHeresies23And24 I will do an HTML version when [...]
December 26th, 2012 by Roger Pearse
It’s remarkable how much one can achieve in a few dedicated days. I’ve managed to get my new Mithras site up and functional, although far from complete. It may be found here. http://www.roger-pearse.com/mithras I don’t think that there is very much more to do to the PHP scripts, which is nice. The content needs to [...]
December 24th, 2012 by Roger Pearse
It is now Christmas Eve. A minority of people will be sat at home, in a traditional Dickensian family circle, waiting for Christmas. In rather more households there will be excited children rushing around, and all blessing to them and their harried parents. But for a great many people, including most people who spend their lives [...]
November 16th, 2012 by Roger Pearse
For some years now I have commissioned translations of previously untranslated texts. These I make freely available on the web. A correspondent has suggested that I should make it possible for generous-minded people to contribute. As an experiment, I’ve added a “Donate” button on the right hand side. Not quite sure how I feel about [...]
October 9th, 2012 by Roger Pearse
Adam McCollum has kindly translated this lengthy hymn by Ephraim the Syrian into English for us. The translation is public domain; do whatever you like with it, personal, educational or commercial. ephrem_contra_haer_22.mellel (PDF) ephrem_contra_haer_22 (RTF) These files can also be found at Archive.org here. I will produce an HTML version when I can.
August 3rd, 2012 by Roger Pearse
An email in the ABTAPL list raised a very interesting question. In the IVP Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, in the volume on Hebrews, there is an excerpt from Ephraim the Syrian. Looking at the reference, we find this: Marco Conti, trans. Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews. Works of Ephrem in Armenian. ACCS translation [...]
August 2nd, 2012 by Roger Pearse
I have produced a rough translation of the BKV German translation of this hymn, mainly while reading it to see what it said. I make no claims for reliability, but it gives an idea of what the content is. The line divisions are my own. 23. To the same melody. 1. The twelve apostles were [...]
August 2nd, 2012 by Roger Pearse
I have been reading the prefatory material to E. Beck’s critical edition of this collection of hymns. The following is abstracted from these. Ephraim’s collection of hymns Contra Haereses was printed by Petrus Benedictus (Mubarak) in the 2nd volume (syr.-lat.) of the Editio Romana in 1740, based upon the only manuscript of this work contained [...]
August 1st, 2012 by Roger Pearse
I was answering an email in great haste earlier today, which contained the assertion that heretics like Marcionites or Valentinians (there was no specific) referred to themselves as Christians. I think that I sort of assented, or at any rate did not disagree, in the rush to disagree with other parts of the email. But [...]