Ronald E. Heine is Professor Emeritus of Bible and Theology at Bushnell University, Oregon. He was educated at Lincoln Christian Seminary and the University of Illinois. His areas of research and teaching include patristics, early Christian history and theology, the use and study of the Bible in the early church, and New Testament. He has taught at Christian colleges and seminaries in the US and the UK, and was Director of the Institut zur Erforschung des Urchristentums in Tübingen, Germany for eleven years. He specializes in the study of the third-century church father, Origen.

Heine's welcome new translation provides readers with an up-to-date English rendering of this ancient selection of Origen's writings, which promises to serve as "a convenient doorway into the vast production of his mind".

• Preface Abbreviations Introduction TEXT AND TRANSLATION Bibliography Index

Ronald E. Heine is Professor Emeritus of Bible and Theology at Bushnell University, Oregon. He was educated at Lincoln Christian Seminary and the University of Illinois. His areas of research and teaching include patristics, early Christian history and theology, the use and study of the Bible in the early church, and New Testament. He has taught at Christian colleges and seminaries in the US and the UK, and was Director of the Institut zur Erforschung des Urchristentums in Tübingen, Germany for eleven years. He specializes in the study of the third-century church father, Origen.

Heine's welcome new translation provides readers with an up-to-date English rendering of this ancient selection of Origen's writings, which promises to serve as "a convenient doorway into the vast production of his mind".

• Preface Abbreviations Introduction TEXT AND TRANSLATION Bibliography Index