The Oriental Orthodox Library has published its latest volume. There are now NINETEEN volumes in the library.

Occasional Paper II - The Chronicle of Joshua the Stylite

This is the second publication in the Occasional Papers series.

We owe the preservation of the short Chronicle of Joshua the Stylite to the care of a later historian, Dionysius of Tell-Mahre, patriarch of the Jacobites (ob. A. Gr. 1156, A.D. 845), who incorporated it with his own larger work, which deserves to be made accessible to students of history without further delay.

sOf Joshua we know little more than what he has himself thought fit to tell us. He wrote his Chronicle at the request of one Sergius, the abbot of a convent in the district of Edessa.

The last date which occurs in it is 28th November A.D. 506

Vol XVII -Three Encomiums on the Archangel Michael,

trans. E.A. Wallis Budge.

Publication - Nov 2007

These three Encomiums were written about the beginning of the VIIth century, and in them we see some of the earliest specimens of this class of Coptic literature in existence. They were written by Abba Theodosius, Archbishop of Alexandria, Severus of Antioch, and Eustathius, Bishop of Trake,

The lives of Coptic saints and the Encomiums upon them are generally too full of miracles and somewhat monotonous exhortations to the listener and reader, but these Encomiums now published for the first time are interesting exceptions to the rule, for they contain narratives which are full of importance, not only for the philologist and antiquary, but also for the student of comparative folk-lore and demonology.