Texts in Syriac

apocryphal gospel on the childhood of Jesus

thumb|Parchment manuscript of the Ephrem's Commentary on the Diatessaron, from Egypt, late 5th or early 6th century, in the [[Chester Beatty Library]]

main figure in an ancient Aramaic story

apocryphic book of the New Testament

pseudepigraphic book of the Bible

set of obscure ancient prayers

early Christian church order from the 3rd century

3rd-century gnostic gospel written by Mani

passage of the apocryphal Acts of Thomas

6th–7th century Syriac Christian text providing a theological history from the creation of Adam to the coming of Christ, presenting Adam and the patriarchs as prefigurations of Christ and incorporating local Mesopotamian traditions

7th-century Syriac Christian text

5th century Manichean manuscript

ancient narrative about the Hebrew patriarch Joseph’s marriage to Asenath

2nd-5th century CE Christian pseudepigraphical work; purports to be the final words of Adam to Seth

13th-century compilation containing numerous Bible legends

Bible in a particular Aramaic dialect

anonymous 7th-century Nestorian Christian chronicle

Syriac Christian apocrypha

chronicle written in Syriac

Mid-6th century Syriac history of Edessa

The Shabuhragan ( Shāpuragān), which means "dedicated to Šābuhr", also translated in Chinese as the was a sacred book of Manichaeism, written by the founder Mani (c. 210–276 CE) himself, originally in Middle Persian, and dedicated to Shapur I (c. 215272 CE), the contemporary king of the Sasanian Empire. This book is listed as one of the seven treatises of Manichaeism in Arabic historical sources, but it is not among the seven treatises in the Manichaean account itself. The book was designed to present to Shapur an outline of Mani's new religion, which united elements from Zoroastrianism, Chris

The Marganitha (; ) is a book summarising the doctrine of the Church of the East written by Mar Odisho, Metropolitan of N’siwin and Armenia, in 1298. The website of the Assyrian Church calls the Marganitha the "official manual of the faith of the Church of the East". The explanation of the author for naming the book as Margānītā (Pearl) is as follows: “I […] wrote this book, small in size and brief, but extensive in its subject matter. Hence, I have called it “The Pearl”, the truth of Christianity; and herein I have briefly treated of the origin, roots, plants and branches of the teaching of t

Greek document written between 544 and 944 CE; purports to describe correspondence between King Abgar V of Edessa and Jesus, which results in Judas Thaddeus going to Edessa

Religious text of Manichaeism

late 5th-century text for law schools

collection of Eastern Christian texts