The Histories of Rabban Hormizd and Rabban Bar-Idta: (1 Kiraz Chronicles Archive)

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.

Table of Contents:
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]