Verse homilies: Syriac, Greek, English, American

Ephrem the Syrian – foundational

c. 306–373; Syriac

• Ephrem the Syrian. Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns. Edited by Bernard McGinn, Translated by Kathleen E. McVey, Paulist Press, 1989.
• Schaff, Philip, and Henry Wace, editors. Gregory the Great (Part II), Ephraim Syrus, Aphrahat. Christian Literature Company, 1898.
• St. Ephrem the Syrian. The Hymns on Faith. Translated by Jeffrey T. Wickes, vol. 130, The Catholic University of America Press, 2015.
• St. Ephrem the Syrian. St. Ephrem the Syrian: Songs for the Fast and Pascha. Translated by Joshua Falconer et al., vol. 145, The Catholic University of America Press, 2022.
• Ephrem the Syrian. Select Metrical Hymns and Homilies of Ephraem Syrus. Translated by Henry Burgess, Robert B. Blackader; Sampson Low, Son and Co.; Asher and Co., 1853.
• S. Ephrem the Syrian. Select Works of St. Ephrem the Syrian. Translated by J. B. Morris, John Henry Parker; F. and J. Rivington, 1847.
• Ephrem the Syrian. A Spiritual Psalter or Reflections on God. Translated by Isaac E. Lambertsen and Antonina Janda, The St. John of Kronstadt Press, 2004.

Narsai of Nisibis – liturgical and sacramental exposition

c. 399–c. 502; Church of the East

• Bishop, Edmund. The Liturgical Homilies of Narsai. Edited by J. Armitage Robinson, Translated by R. H. Connolly, No. 1, vol. 8, Cambridge at the University Press, 1909.

Isaac of Antioch – moral exhortation and social criticism

probably several fifth- and sixth-century Syriac authors confused under one name

• Becker, Adam H. Isaac of Antioch: Homilies on Moral and Monastic Reform (Writings from the Greco-Roman World). SBL Press, 2024.

Jacob of Serugh – sustained narrative and typological biblical exegesis

451–521; Syriac, associated with the Syriac Orthodox tradition

• Jacob of Sarug. Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on Elijah (Texts from Christian Late Antiquity). Translated by Stephen Kaufman. Gorgias Press 2009
• Jacob of Sarug. Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on Jephthah’s Daughter (Texts from Christian Late Antiquity: The Metrical Homilies of MarJacob ob Sarug Fascicle 16) Translated by Susan Harvey and Ophir Munz-Manor
• Jacob of Serugh. Monalis: Progression of Homily of Salvation. Translated by Rev. Awele Ilobah. JDM International Ministry 2021.
• Jacob of Serug. On the Mother of God. Translated by Mary Hansbury. St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press. 2011
• Jacob of Serugh. The Stanzaic Poems of Jacob of Serugh: A Collection of His Madroshe and Sughyotho (Texts from Christian Late Antiquity). Translated by Sebastian P. Brock. Gorgias Press. 2022.

Balai of Qenneshrin

early fifth century; Syriac

• Phenix Robert. The Sermons on Joseph of Balai of Qenneshrin: Rhetoric and Interpretation in Fifth Century Syriac Literature (Studien Und Texte Zu Antike Und Christentum). Mohr Siebeck 2008

Anonymous Syriac poets attributed to Ephrem

fourth–sixth centuries and later

Romanos the Melodist

early sixth century; Byzantine Greek

• Mellas, Andrew with Saint Romanos the Melodist. Hymns of Repentance. Edited by John Behr, Translated by Andrew Mellas, vol. 61, St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2020.

Latin

• Commodian, Instructiones and Carmen apologeticum.
• Orientius, Commonitorium.
• Paulinus of Nola, selected Natalicia.
• Prudentius, selected Peristephanon poems.
• Arator, Historia apostolica.
• Sedulius, Carmen Paschale.
• Avitus, De spiritalis historiae gestis.
• Dracontius, De laudibus Dei.
• Aldhelm, Carmen de virginitate.
• Theodulf of Orléans, Contra iudices.
• Bernard of Cluny, De contemptu mundi.
• Peter Riga, Aurora.

English

• anonymous. The Ormulum
• anonymous. The Northern Homily Cycle

American

• Johnson, James Weldon. God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse