* Vol. 1: Les souverains. L’histoire et la philosophie politique (VII, 383 pp.). II: Les géographes. Les sciences mathématiques et naturelles (400 pp.). III: L’exégèse. La tradition et la jurisprudence (423 pp.). IV: La scolastique. La théologie et la mystioque. La musique (VIII, 384 pp.). V: Les sectes. Le libéralisme moderne (431 pp.).

* From the preface: ‘The book is divided into three main parts: 1. Statistical groups with objective studies thereon. 2. A glance at some of the contemporary institutions and graduates with reference to our Syriac writers. 3. A glance at the services rendered by our Syrian anscestors to human civilisation.’

* Story of two Jewish children who were hidden in the war and were brought up as Dutch Catholic children, against the wishes of their Jewish parents, who were killed in the Holocaust. They eventually fled to Belgium when the Dutch police was ordered to take them from their foster parents's home.

* 35 Studies of various portions of Josephus’ Jewish Antiquities, as an attempt to examine the oldest systematic commentary on the historical books of the Bible.