The Histories of Rabban Hormizd and Rabban Bar-Idta

The importance of these biographies lies in the fact that their subjects founded two great monasteries which became centers for teaching and monasticism at a critical period of the Church of the East, during the seventh and following centuries.

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• The Author's Preface [Vol I]
• Concerning the birthplace of Rabban Hormizd [Vol I]
• Concerning his arrival in Mawsel (Mawsil, the modern Mosul, or Nineveh) [Vol I]
• Concerning his arrival at the Monastery of Rabban Bar-'Idta in Marga [Vol I]
• Concerning the cures wrought by Rabban Hormizd [Vol I]
• How Rabban Hormizd turned water into olive oil [Vol I]
• How Rabban Hormizd went to the Monastery of Risha [Vol I]
• Rabban Hormizd and the people of Al-Kosh [Vol I]
• How ten monks from the Monastery of Bezkin fell upon Rabban and beat him nearly to death [Vol I]
• The story of the murder of the harlot of Bezkin [Vol I]
• How Shaibin the son of the governor of Mawsel was healed of his disease [Vol I]
• The story of the miracle which he wrought in the matter of the baptism of the governor and his son [Vol I]
• How Rabban shewed kindness to men who had come to murder him from Bezkin, and how it had no effect on them [Vol I]
• How the monks of Bezkin went to the idol in the Monastery of Mattai [Vol I]
• The story of the destruction of the Monastery of Bezkin [Vol I]
• How the building of the Monastery of Rabban Hormizd was begun near al-Kosh [Vol I]
• How the worship of idols grew [Vol I]
• How Tumarsa II. the Patriarch and Catholic came and consecrated the Monastery of Rabban [Vol I]
• How Khodahwi gave a gift of money unto the catholicus tumarsa II [Vol I]
• How twenty Jacobites were drowned in the Tigris [Vol I]
• How Rabban went to the Monastery of Mar Mattai [Vol I]
• How Rabban triumphed over Ignatius the Sorcerer [Vol I]
• How Ignatius came to the Governor [Vol I]
• The last words of Rabban Hormizd [Vol I]
• The Author's declaration of his belief and the doctrine of the trinity [Vol II]
• The Author's Preface [Vol II]
• The Life of Rabban Bar-'Idta [Vol II]
• Rabban Bar-'Idta leaves Nisibis for Marga [Vol II]
• Bar-'Idta arrives at Beth Rastak [Vol II]
• The story of Mebharakh and the camel [Vol II]
• The Death of Mar Joseph [Vol II]
• The story of Isho'-Sabhran from the Monastery of Mar Mattai [Vol II]
• Rabban restores the sight of the son of Isho' Apri [Vol II]
• Rabban expels a devil from the son of Zadhan-Par-rukh [Vol II]
• Rabban's views on asceticism [Vol II]
• Rabban and Mar Babhai set down the Nestorian faith in writing for Khusrau, King of Persia [Vol II]
• The story of Bishop Yazdpanah, who sinned [Vol II]
• The story of the driving of the devils out from Malbed's house [Vol II]
• The increase in the number of monks in Rabban's Monastery [Vol II]
• The death of Berikh-Isho' [Vol II]
• The story of Matthew of Beth Garmai and the enchanted well [Vol II]
• The story of Yazdadh and the blind woman [Vol II]
• The story of Teris-Isho' and the soldier [Vol II]
• The story of Dadh-Isho' who played with lions [Vol II]
• The story of Zakhai and the sick woman [Vol II]
• The story of Nisanaya and the locusts [Vol II]
• Rabban Bar-'Idta and Mar Abha [Vol II]
• Of the return of Mar Abha from his journey with Khusrau [Vol II]
• The story of the great famine [Vol II]
• The story of the dispersal of the monks [Vol II]
• Bar-'Idta admonishes Sahdona [Vol II]
• Bar-'Idta warns Isho-Sabhran [Vol II]
• Zakhai (Nana) and his twelve devils [Vol II]
• The disgrace of Nana [Vol II]
• Devils appear to Rabban [Vol II]
• The story of Bar-Sahde and his books [Vol II]
• Of the prophetic visions of Rabban Bar-'Idta [Vol II]
• Rabban Hormizd and Rabban Mar Yozadhak [Vol II]
• The comming of Sergius into the Monastery [Vol II]
• The story of the snake and the woodcutter [Vol II]
• Malbeds mother is cured of her sickness [Vol II]
• Rabban heals a dropsical woman [Vol II]
• The story of the Jewish tailor who became converted to Nestorianism [Vol II]
• Rabban causes a woman to have three sons [Vol II]
• The story of Job of the village of Beth Kartewaye [Vol II]
• The story of Emmanuel the deacon and the lustful woman [Vol II]
• How the step-mother of Gaws-Isho' tried to poison him [Vol II]
• The story of the woman who was possessed of a devil [Vol II]
• Rabban straightens the twisted feet of a young man [Vol II]
• Rabban drives a devil out from a bride [Vol II]
• Rabban drives a devil out from a woman of Bar-Shira [Vol II]
• Rabban stays a plague among the sheep [Vol II]
• Rabban gives Yazdin a son and heir [Vol II]
• The story of the sinful virgin [Vol II]
• Rabban heals one of the brethren who was sick [Vol II]
• The story of the stolen bull [Vol II]
• How Rabban cast out a devil [Vol II]
• How a magician who persecuted a nestorian maiden fell with his horse into the river Zabh and was drowned [Vol II]
• How Rabban turned a skin of water into wine [Vol II]
• How Rabban prophesied that hail, drought, and mildew should come upon the crops of the village [Vol II]
• How Rabban's cross kept error out of a village [Vol II]
• The story of the monk and the lion [Vol II]
• The story of the sick mule [Vol II]
• How a monk was cured of the lust of the flesh [Vol II]
• The story of the brother who was cured of the gout [Vol II]
• How the water from Rabban's well kept away death [Vol II]
• How Rabban kept away the wolves in Marga [Vol II]
• The story of the newly-married couple [Vol II]
• The periods of Rabban Bar-'Idta's life [Vol II]
• Rabban Bar-'Idta's exhortations to his monks [Vol II]
• The death of Rabban Bar-'Idta [Vol II]
• Colophons [Vol II]