03 — The Ascetical Homilies

The “First Part” — the eighty-two Syriac discourses that are the core of Isaac’s legacy, and the translation made at the Lavra of Mar Saba around the year 800 that carried them into Greek and from there into every Orthodox language. The Philokalic Isaac the East has known and loved for twelve centuries, and the textual history that lies beneath the familiar English page.

Files

File	Description
the-first-part.md	The First Part; the transmission into Greek by the monks of Mar Saba c. 800; the Isaac the Christian East has read and loved
text-and-translation.md	The editions and translations — Bedjan, Wensinck, the Holy Transfiguration Monastery English, Pirard’s Greek; the numbering problem

See Also

• 02 — The Church of the East Question — the Mar Saba translation as the vehicle of his reception
• 04 — The Second Part and Beyond — the corpus the Greek tradition never received
• Master README — the collection overview