Narsai of Nisibis
Syriac poet and teacher, head of the school of Nisibis, the chief theological school of the Church of the East; his metrical homilies earned him the title ‘harp of the Spirit’.
Writings
English translations (older public-domain ones, and a few modern ones shared under open licences), divided into chapters and short sections, with a download for each. A modern English version and the original-language text are planned for the works that matter most.
- The Liturgical Homilies (Connolly translation) Older EnglishOCR text 2.1 h read
Most translations are the older ones in the public domain (mostly the nineteenth-century Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers); a few are modern translations shared under an open licence, with the translators credited on the work’s page. Square brackets and any Greek or Latin words are as the source prints them.