The Syriac Book of Steps: Syriac Text and English Translation

Fasicle 1. The Syriac Book of Steps 1. Memra one -- Memra two: About those who want to become perfect -- Memra three: The physical and the spiritual ministry -- Memra four: On the vegetables for the sick -- Memra five: On the milk of the children -- Memra six: On those who are made perfect and continue to grow -- Memra seven: On the commandments of the upright -- Memra eight: On one who gives all he has to feed the poor -- Memra nine: On uprightness and the love of the upright and the prophets -- Memra ten --

Fasicle 2. The Syriac Book of Steps 3. Memra eleven: On the hearing of the scriptures when the Law is read before us -- Memra twelve: On the hidden and public ministry of the church -- Memra thirteen: On the ways of the upright -- Memra fourteen: On the upright and the perfect -- Memra Fifteen: On Adam's marital desire -- Memra sisteen: On how a person may surpass the major commandments -- Memra seventeen: On the sufferrings of our Lord who became through them an example for us -- Memra eighteen: On the tears of prayer -- Memra Nineteen: On the discernment of the way of perfection -- Memra twenty: On the difficult steps that are on the road of the City of our Lord --

Fasicle 3. The Syriac Book of Steps 3. Memra twenty-one: On the Tree of Adam -- Memra twenty-two: On the judgments that do not save those who observe them -- Memra twenty-three: On Satan and Pharoah and the Israelites -- Memra twenty-four: On repentance -- Memra twenty-five: On the voice of God and of Satan -- Memra twenty-six: On the second law that the Lord established from Adam -- Memra twenty-seven: About the history of the thief who is saved -- Memra twenty-eight: On the fact that the human soul is not identical with the blood -- Memra twenty-nine: On the discipline of the body -- Memra thirty: On the commandments of faith and the love of the solitaires.

Syriac and English translation on opposite pages; introduction and notes in English.