The Book of the Bee (Syriac: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܕܒܘܪܝܬܐ, romanized: Kṯāḇā ḏ-debboriṯā) is a historiographic and theological compilation, containing numerous Biblical stories.
[1][2] The book is a collection of theological and historical texts and consists of 55 chapters discussing various topics including the creation, heaven and earth, the angels, darkness, paradise, Old Testament patriarchs, New Testament events, lists of kings and patriarchs, and the final day of resurrection.
He was a diocesan bishop of Basra, now in Iraq, and was present at the consecration of the Patriarch of the Church of the East, Sabrisho IV, in 1222.
[7] The book was written in Syriac, a literary form of Eastern Middle Aramaic, and it was also translated into Arabic.
[9] In 1886, Syriac text was published with English translation, by British orientalist Ernest A. Wallis Budge (d.