Publications

Narsai: The Homilies

The translation volumes will be published by Peeters (Leuven) as a distinctive part of their Eastern Christian Texts in Translation series.

Volume 1 (edited by Aaron M. Butts, Kristian S. Heal, Robert A. Kitchen) [Published, 2024]

A Brief Introduction to Reading Narsai (Heal)
Memra 1 ‘Revelations to Patriarchs and Prophets I’ (Griffith)
Memra 5 ‘On Mary’ (Walsh)
Memra 8 ‘On Peter and Paul’ (Forness)
Memra 10 ‘On Stephen’ (Gross and Paz)
Memra 12 ‘On the Iniquity of the World’ (Van Rompay)
Memra 14 ‘On Jonah’ (Kitchen)

Volume 2 (translated by Adam H. Becker) [In Press]

Introduction
Memra 20 ‘On Lent 1’
Memra 23 ‘On Lent 3’
Memra 24 ‘On Lent 4’
Memra 26 ‘On Lent 5’
Memra 25 ‘On Reproof’
Memra 78 ‘On Reproof of the Clergy’
Memra 79 ‘On Reproof’

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Other Publications

Aaron M. Butts, “Reclaiming Narsai’s Mēmrā of the Feast of the Victorious Cross.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 23:1 (2020): 3–30.

Aaron M. Butts, Kristian S. Heal, and Robert A. Kitchen (eds.), Narsai: Rethinking his Work and his World. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020.

Aaron M. Butts, Kristian S. Heal, and Sebastian P. Brock, Clavis to the Metrical Homilies of Narsai. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium. Leuven: Peeters, 2021.

Aaron M. Butts, “Recovering Some Lost Lines in the Mēmrē of Narsai (d. c. 500), with an Appendix on the Stemma of Manuscripts of Narsai.” COMSt Bulletin 9.1-2 (2023): 7–23.