New Gorgias Press

The new Gorgias catalog is out. In case you've been living in an inky dark cave somewhere in Central Asia or are simply engrossed in other less interesting things, over the last few, Gorgias has been publishing and reissuing a truckload of Syriac and Eastern Christian works, like martryologies, Ephrem's homilies, and scholarship on Aphrahat. One highlight from the most recent catch:

Aphrahat the Persian Sage and the Temple of God

By Stephanie Jarkins
This books examines Aphrahat the Persian Sage's views of asceticism, sacramental theology, Christology, and ecclesiology and concludes that Aphrahat, a mid-fourth century Christian author, uses themes with ancient roots, including Merkabah traditions of the temple and applies these traditions to the Christian experience of God.

And one to come:

Virtuous Reading: Aphrahat's Approach to Scripture

The epistemology of the mid-fourth-century Christian scholar in Persia, Aphrahat, presumes that the human mind and the task of biblical interpretation are caught up in a dynamic experience of Christian spiritual transformation. In short, for the Persian Sage, good Bible interpretation requires nothing less than the total person—inner and outer, in community and before God. In Aphrahat’s Demonstrations, we encounter a scholar who not only presents this remarkably integrated set of ideals but is also an impressive practitioner of them.