Moses bar Kepha

Principal writings

• A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, often quoted by Bar Hebraeus, and most of it still extant in manuscript form;
• a treatise on predestination and free will, preserved in a manuscript in the British Museum ;
• a commentary on Aristotle's Dialectics, mentioned by Bar Hebraeus;
• a commentary on the Hexameron in five books, preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, a passage of which is translated into French by François Nau in his Bardésane l'astrologue, p. 59;
• a Tractatus de Paradiso, in three parts, dedicated to his friend Ignatius.
• A treatise on the soul, in forty chapters, with a supplementary essay on the utility of offering prayers and sacrifices for the dead.
• A Tractatus de sectis, or, Liber disputationum adversus haereses ;
• a treatise on the Sacraments;
• a commentary on the Liturgy;
• an ecclesiastical history.