The Book of Steps (ktābā d-masqātā; Liber Graduum in modern scholarship) is a collection of 30 Syriac discourses or mēmrē on the spiritual and ascetical life. Written by an intentionally anonymous author in the late 4th century CE in the Adiabene region of the Persian Empire (northeast Iraq), the work focuses on the description and development of two levels of committed Christ…