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Desert Fathers (Ward, Benedicta ed./trans.). The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection.
Rating: (Review by M.C. Steenberg, August 2003)

The foremost English edition of the Sayings of the Desert Fathers: essential reading in Orthodox spirituality and ascetic praxis as relayed through short sayings and accounts of the lives of many of the earliest monks.
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Ephrem the Syrian . A Spiritual Psalter - Or Reflections on God.
Rating: (Review by M.C. Steenberg, July 2003)

An essential collection of short, song-like texts or 'psalms' by St Ephrem, collated by Theophan the Recluse. Among the most beautiful of all theological poetry, these 150 texts demonstrate the unique manner of theological writing that flourished in the Syriac East.
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Isaac the Syrian (trans. S. Brock). The Wisdom of Saint Isaac the Syrian.
Rating: n/a (Review by M.C. Steenberg, August 2003)

A select collection of the 'apothegmata' or sayings of St Isaac, translated and introduced by one of the foremost scholars of Syrian Christianity.
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