A Guide to Preaching and the Homiletic Genre in Late Antique Syriac Literature (Studies in Preaching and the Sermon, 2)

Sermons and other texts that might be regarded as homiletic comprise a significant proportion of the surviving corpus of Syriac literature from late antiquity. Nevertheless, the Syriac homiletic tradition has hardly been incorporated into the general study of early Christian preaching. The present volume provides an introduction to Syriac sermons, which will be useful both for specialists in Syriac literature and for anyone interested in late antique homilies. The contributions in this volume offer diverse approaches to the study of homilies, focusing on thematic elements, questions of audience and reception, and defining the "genre" of homilies in Syriac literature.

Philip Michael Forness is Associate Professor of Eastern Christianity and Coordinator of the Louvain Centre for Eastern and Oriental Christianity at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He has published two books on the homilies of Jacob of Serugh (2018, 2022).

J. Edward Walters is Associate Professor of History at Abilene Christian University. His research focuses on Syriac literature in late antiquity, and he is the editor of Eastern Christianity: A Reader (2021).