If you enjoy the sayings of the desert fathers and mothers or the books of Anthony de Mello or the stories of Mulla Nasruddin, then you will enjoy this books as a source of short quotations and illustrations for teaching or preaching.
The Amazon blurb (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1481835467?psc=1&ref…):
[quote]"Published in 1897, this is a collection of humorous stories collected by Mar Gregory John Bar-Hebraeus, translated from the original Syriac and also includes the Syriac text."
Notice this is an out of copyright volume, a category Logos seems to have ignored since the commentary collections.
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