The Spiritual World of Isaac the Syrian 98.99 the greatest Jewish mystic

the greatest Jewish mystic

His Ladder was the most widely used handbook of the ascetical life in the ancient Greek church

and a number of lesser figures

with the explicit intention of exerting not only religious but also political influence

The Spiritual World of Isaac the Syrian 98.99 the greatest Jewish mystic"Sugg. Donation" Isaac the Syrian, also called Isaac of Nineveh, lived and wrote during "the golden age of Syriac Christian literature" in the seventh century. Cut off by language and politics from the Churches of the Roman Empire and branded "Nestorian," the Church of the East produced in isolation a rich theological literature which is only now becoming known to outsiders. Yet over the centuries and in all parts of Christendom, Isaac's works have