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Audo Audo, Thomas. Dictionary of the Chaldean Language. Mosul, 1897. 2 volumes.

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BJS Bedjan, Paul. Selected Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarugh. Paris, 1905-10. 5 volumes.

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CSCO Syr. Corpus of Oriental Christian Writers. Syrian Writers. Paris, 1903——.

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ERE Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, edited by James Hastings. Edinburgh and New York, 1908——.

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