Eminent Syriac and Arabic scholar William Wright here offers an edition of the homilies of the early Syriac father, Aphrahat. The work was originally proposed and begun by Cureton, but Wright took it up after his death. In the preface, Wright surveys the information known about Aphrahat from later Syriac writers: George, Bishop of the Arabs; Elias bar Shinaya; Barhebraeus; and Abdisho (the relevant sections from George and Elias are given in Syriac at the end of the preface). Naturally, he also deals there with the three manuscripts used for the edition, a task at which he is a widely recognized master; the manuscripts are dated to 474, 512, and sometime in the sixth century. The Syriac text itself includes both critical apparatus and notes on biblical citations, which are also indexed. Though an English translation was planned, it never appeared.