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    Saint Isaac the Syrian, Isaac of Nineveh, Abba Isaac, Isaac Syrus and Isaac of Qatar, was a 7th-century Syriac Christian bishop of the Church of the East...
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    The Ascetical Homilies of Isaac the Syrian is a collection of homilies on the topic of Christian asceticism and prayer, written c. 688 by Saint Isaac...
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    March 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2016. St. Isaac the Syrian, "Homily 28," In The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian, trans. Dana Miller (Brookline, MA:...
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    Directorate) and eventually in the Mossad. Isaac Shoshan was born as Isaac Shasho, nicknamed "Zaki", in Allepo, Syria to poor Jewish parents, Yaqoub Shasho...
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    manner by Isaac the Syrian," Wacław Hryniewicz The challenge of our hope: Christian faith in dialogue 2007 The 7th-century mystic, Isaac the Syrian, known...
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    two-thirds of Syrian Christians had left the country by 2021. The estimate was also verified by other Christian organizations in Syria. During the Syrian civil...
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  • Isaac of Antioch also remembered as Isaac of Amid or Isaac the Syrian, is one of the stars of Syriac literature, and the reputed author of a large number...
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    Ascetical Homilies of Isaac the Syrian Oriental Orthodoxy Miaphysitism, Cyril of Alexandria's Christology Syriac Christianity Jacobite Syrian Christian Church...
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    Hesychasm (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Early monasticism The Philokalia. The Ladder of Divine Ascent. The Ascetical Homilies of Isaac the Syrian. Works of St. Symeon the New Theologian. Coenobitical...
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    Byzantine calendar (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    mystical Fathers such as St. Isaac the Syrian accepted without question the common understanding of the Church that the world was created "more or less"...
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    Wood 2013, p. 136. Alfeyev, Hilarion (24 March 2016). The Spiritual World of Isaac the Syrian. Liturgical Press. ISBN 978-0-87907-724-2. Brock 2006,...
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    (Ottoman Period)." Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Asia Minor. 9/9/2005. Retrieved: 20 January 2015. Hieromonk Isaac, 2012: p. 322. (in Greek) Και επίσημα...
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  • Brock, Sebastian (2020). "Stages in the Spiritual Life According to Isaac the Syrian and Syriac Tradition". Orthodox Theology in Dialogue. 6 (6). Mitropolia...
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  • Mar Isaac may refer to: Mar Isaac (bishop), early bishop of Seleucia Isaac the Syrian, d. ca. 700 Mar Isaac of Firuz Shapur, Gaon of the Jewish Yeshiva...
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  • Apamea's works have influenced Isaac the Syrian, a prolific 7th-century Syriac Christian mystical writer. In Syriac, John the Solitary is known as Yoḥannan...
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    Saint Isaac the Syrian said that "Paradise is the love of God, in which the bliss of all the beatitudes is contained," and that "the tree of life is the love...
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    correspond to what the ascetics of the Philokalia require from a humble person, whom Seraphim of Sarov followed. So, Isaac the Syrian says: ‘The true righteous...
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    love of God. Saint Isaac the Syrian says in his Ascetical Homilies that "Paradise is the love of God, in which the bliss of all the beatitudes is contained...
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    Saints, and Prelates of the Syriac Orthodox Church". The feast of St. Evagris (surnamed Ponticus) is celebrated in the Syrian Orthodox Church on 16 January...
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    live in the region of the modern state of Syria, and their descendants born outside Syria. Syrian Jews derive their origin from two groups: from the Jews...
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    Justin Popović (category People from the Kingdom of Serbia)
    and Isaac the Syrian). He also wrote The Theory of Knowledge According to St. Isaac, which was derived from The Ascetical Homilies of Isaac the Syrian. From...
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    Hilarion Alfeyev (category Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church)
    Symeon the New Theologian and Orthodox Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2000), welcomed by the press, The Spiritual World of Isaac the Syrian (Cistercian...
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    Muslim conquest of Persia Origin of the name Khuzestan Mesopotamian Marshes The Ascetical Homilies of Isaac the Syrian Tidal irrigation in Abadan Island...
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    April 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) (category April in the Eastern Orthodox calendar)
    beheading (285-305) Martyr Sabbas the Goth, at Buzău in Wallachia (372) (see also: April 15 - Slavic) Saint Isaac the Syrian (Isaac of Monteluco), Abbot of Spoleto...
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    (St. Isaac of Syria, Mystic Treatises) The Orthodox Church of America website [2] Archived 4 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine For those who love the Lord...
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    at the head of Mar Mattai Monastery near Mosul in what is now northern Iraq. He was a near contemporary to the slightly younger Ephrem the Syrian, but...
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  • Gorgias Press (category Publishing companies of the United States)
    under-translated works, such as those of Hippolytus of Rome, Jacob of Sarug, and Isaac the Syrian. As of 2019, Gorgias publishes 29 book series, including Gorgias Handbooks...
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    Gregory Palamas (category Byzantine saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church)
    Light Mount Athos Gregory Acindynus Christian mysticism The Ascetical Homilies of Isaac the Syrian, a 7th-century hesychastic text Rigo, A. (1989), "La vita...
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    Mothers Early Christianity Eastern Christian monasticism The Ascetical Homilies of Isaac the Syrian Fools for Christ Pachomian monasteries Sinaites in Serbia...
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    Sogdian translations of works by Isaac the Syrian. Manichaean texts survive in Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian and Uyghur; the Sogdian and Uyghur documents...
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