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The Acts of the Pagan Martyrs, Volume I
ACTA ALEXANDRINORUM
Av MUSURILLO, Herbert A. Musurillo
Inbunden, 2000
1942 kr
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Volume I of Herbert Musurillo's critical editions, with translations and commentaries, of ancient martyr literature, surveys the development of the genre, discussing the political and historical background which produced it. These texts were written in the form of court records reporting the trials …
The Case Against Diodore and Theodore
Texts and their Contexts
Av John Behr
Häftad, 2017
1197 kr
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This is a landmark work, providing the first complete collection of the remaining excerpts from the writings of Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia together with a ground-breaking study of the controversy regarding the person of Christ that raged from the fourth to the sixth century, and …
Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God
Av John Behr
Inbunden, 2023
4196 kr
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This book presents the first modern critical edition of the work of Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human Image of God (formerly known as On the Making of Man, De hominis opificio) and the first English translation since the nineteenth century. This treatise is one of the most important of Gregory's …
Leontius of Byzantium
Complete Works
Häftad, 2021
907 kr
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Leontius Of Byzantium (485-543) was a Byzantine monk and theologian who provided a breakthrough of terminology in the 6th-century Christological controversy over the mode of union of Christ's human nature with his divinity. He did so through his introduction of Aristotelian logical categories and …
Prudentius’ Hymn to Romanus (Peristephanon 10)
Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary
Av Tsartsidis, Thomas Tsartsidis
Inbunden, 2027
3475 kr
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This volume is the first book-length study on Prudentius' Hymn to Romanus in English, and the first full-scale commentary. Prudentius' text, written at the end of the fourth/beginning of the fifth century AD, is an inventive verse rendering of the martyrdom of St Romanus of Antioch (d. 303). Basing …
The Life of Mashtots' by his Disciple Koriwn
Translated from the Classical Armenian with Introduction and Commentary
Av Terian
Inbunden, 2022
2696 kr
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The Life of Mashtots' is mostly praise for the inventor of the Armenian alphabet--the only inventor of an ancient alphabet known by name--and progenitor of Armenian literacy that began with the translation of the Bible. Written three years after his death, by an early disciple named Koriwn, it …
Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God
Av John Behr
Häftad, 2026
483 kr
Kommande
This book presents the first modern critical edition of the work of Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human Image of God (formerly known as On the Making of Man, De hominis opificio) and the first English translation since the nineteenth century. This treatise is one of the most important of Gregory's …
De Doctrina Christiana
Av St Augustine
Inbunden, 1996
4505 kr
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The De Doctrina Christiana ("On Christian Teaching") is one of Augustine's most important works on the classical tradition. Undertaken at the same time as the Confessions, is sheds light on the development of Augustine's thought, especially in the areas of ethics, hermeneutics, and sign-theory. …
Severus of Minorca: Letter on the Conversion of the Jews
Av Severus of Minorca, Scott Bradbury
Inbunden, 1996
2994 kr
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This book provides an edited text, introduction, and the first English translation of a central document in the history of religious coercion in late antiquity: Severus of Minorca's Letter on the Conversion of the Jews. The Letter describes the forced conversion of the Jews of Minorca to …
Contra Gentes; De Incarnatione
Av Athanasius, Robert W. Thomson
Inbunden, 1971
3475 kr
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Contra Gentes; De Incarnatione
Selected Letters
Av Cyril of Alexandria, Lionel R. Wickham
Inbunden, 1983
4277 kr
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Selected Letters
'On Pascha' and Fragments
Reprinted with corrections and revisions, 2012.
Av Melito of Sardis, Stuart George Hall
Inbunden, 1978
2095 kr
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On Pascha' and Fragments Reprinted with corrections and revisions, 2012.
The Extant Works
Av Eunomius, Richard Paul Vaggione
Inbunden, 1987
4643 kr
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Eunomius of Cyzicus is virtually the only Arian theologian of whose dogmatic works a significant portion has survived. This edition contains a critical text and translation of all the extant works, apart from the Apologia Apologiae, which is presented in the form of references and summaries.
De Bono Coniugali and De Sancta Virginitate
Inbunden, 2001
3727 kr
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De bono coniugali and De sancta virginitate were written in the same year (AD 401). In them Augustine rebuffs the Manichees, who argued that marriage was evil, and the fellowers of Jovinian, who argued that the married state was as meritorious as that of virginity. The first work analyses why …
Maximus the Confessor and his Companions
Documents from Exile
Av Pauline Allen, Bronwen Neil
Inbunden, 2003
3917 kr
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The seven documents in this book, which appear for the first time in an English translation from Greek and Latin, constitute a unique contemporary witness to the stalwart opposition of the monk Maximus the Confessor to seventh-century imperial edicts enforcing adherence to the doctrines of …
Adrian's Introduction to the Divine Scriptures
An Antiochene Handbook for Scriptural Interpretation
Inbunden, 2017
3810 kr
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Adrian likely flourished in the early fifth century. His sole-surviving work is the Introduction to the Divine Scriptures, a Greek treatise that today survives in two recensions. The central topic of the Introduction is the Septuagint's odd stylistic features. In the first section Adrian catalogs …
Nonnus of Panopolis
Paraphrasis of the Gospel of John XI
Av SPANOUDAKIS, Konstantinos Spanoudakis
Inbunden, 2014
4598 kr
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This ground-breaking work is a critical edition of chapter XI (The Resurrection of Lazarus) of Nonnus of Panopolis' Paraphrasis of the Gospel of St John, written in the mid-fifth century in elegant hexameters. Made available for the first time in Anglophone literature, the volume consists of an …
Thomas of Edessa's Explanations of the Nativity and Epiphany
Av Ute Possekel, Ute Possekel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2478 kr
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Thomas of Edessa flourished as a teacher at the School of Nisibis, an important Christian intellectual centre in sixth-century Persia. He accompanied the later patriarch Mar Aba on his travels around the Mediterranean and followed him to Nisibis. Thomas's only surviving writings are two lectures in …
Damasus of Rome
The Epigraphic Poetry
Av Dennis Trout
Inbunden, 2015
3315 kr
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Damasus of Rome makes available in English the epigraphic poetry of Damasus, bishop of Rome from 366 to 384. The translations are accompanied by the Latin text as well as by commentary on the literary, topographic, and archaeological features of Damasus' inscribed epigrams. Antonio Ferrua published …
Greek and Latin Narratives about the Ancient Martyrs
Inbunden, 2017
4391 kr
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Greek and Latin Narratives about the Ancient Martyrs provides a collection, with facing-page translations, of Greek and Latin Christian martyr narratives dating from the first four centuries CE. While Herbert Musurillo's authoritative collection The Acts of the Martyrs (1972) aimed to gather the …
The Life of Saint Helia
Critical Edition, Translation, Introduction, and Commentary
Av Virginia Burrus, Marco Conti
Häftad, 2015
855 kr
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The Life of Saint Helia, a late ancient Latin hagiography of uncertain provenance, is a remarkable and virtually unknown text, of which a critical edition and English translation appear here for the first time, accompanied by an introduction and commentary. Written predominately in dialogue format, …
The Prologues on Easter of Theophilus of Alexandria and [Cyril]
Av MOSSHAMMER, Alden A. Mosshammer
Inbunden, 2017
2673 kr
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The Letter and Prologue on Easter of Theophilus of Alexandria (385-412), the 95-year list of Paschal data compiled by Cyril (412-444), and the Prologue or Praefatio to that list written in Latin about 482 in the persona of Cyril are among the foundational documents for our knowledge of the …
Papias of Hierapolis Exposition of Dominical Oracles
The Fragments, Testimonia, and Reception of a Second-Century Commentator
Av Stephen C. Carlson, Stephen C. Carlson
Inbunden, 2021
2920 kr
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This work is the most complete edition of the remains of the lost five-volume work, Exposition of Dominical Oracles, by Papias of Hierapolis, a second-century Christian commentator. In all, some ninety-eight separate mentions of Papias and his work are documented, from the second century to the age …
Varieties of Nicene Theology
Phoebadius of Agen, Apollinarius of Laodicea, and Theodore of Mopsuestia
Av Mark Delcogliano, Lewis Ayres
Inbunden, 2026
3022 kr
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Scholarship of the past forty years on the fourth-century Trinitarian controversies has been suspicious of narratives that speak of a well-defined, monolithic, and unchanging theological parties, whether Arians or Nicenes. Against such a narrative, such scholarship has emphasized the development of …
The Acts of the Christian Martyrs, Volume II
Av MUSURILLO, Herbert A. Musurillo
Inbunden, 2000
1942 kr
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Volume II of Herbert Musurillo's critical editions, with translations and commentaries, of ancient martyr literature, surveys the development of the genre, discussing the political and historical background which produced it. These texts were written in the form of court records reporting the …
Greek and Latin Narratives about the Ancient Martyrs
Häftad, 2019
870 kr
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Greek and Latin Narratives about the Ancient Martyrs provides a collection, with facing-page translations, of Greek and Latin Christian martyr narratives dating from the first four centuries CE. While Herbert Musurillo's authoritative collection The Acts of the Martyrs (1972) aimed to gather the …
The Lives of Saint Constantina
Introduction, Translations, and Commentaries
Av Marco Conti, Marco Conti m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2678 kr
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Constantina, daughter of the fourth-century emperor Constantine who so famously converted to Christianity, deserves a place of her own in the history of Christianity. As both poet and church-builder, she was an early patron of the Roman cult of the virgin martyr Agnes and was buried ad sanctam in a …
The Philocalia of Origen
A Reader’s Edition
Häftad, 2025
351 kr
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The Philocalia of Origen is a collection of texts excerpted from the third century church father Origen's numerous works. It was created sometime in the fourth century, perhaps by Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus. It is of special interest to scholars of Origen because it contains several …
The Philocalia of Origen
A New Translation with Annotations
Inbunden, 2024
3147 kr
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Origen was one of the great thinkers of the third-century Church and the most influential of the Greek Church Fathers. He created significant interpretations of Scripture throughout his life. The Philocalia of Origen is a collection of texts excerpted from Origen's numerous works. It was created …