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The Apology of Aristides on behalf of the Christians (Hardcover)
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The Apology of Aristides on behalf of the Christians (Hardcover)
Series: Texts and Studies (First Series), 1.1
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This, the very first volume of the TEXTS AND STUDIES monograph
series which began publication in 1891, is also the editio princeps
of the earliest Christian apologia to have survived in its
entirety. The Apology of Aristides was written as a defence of the
new Christian way of life against its many rivals and opponents,
and details some of its leading ethical precepts. Long thought to
have been lost, this early second-century work was rediscovered in
a Syriac translation in 1889 in a seventh-century manuscript
preserved in the monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai. This
volume contains not only the standard edition of the Syriac text
with critical notes, but also the first English translation, and a
study of surviving fragments in Greek, the original language of the
apologia, which were subsequently identified in the 'Life of
Barlaam and Josaphat' (an early Christian reworking of the life of
Buddha). TEXTS AND STUDIES is a series of monographs devoted to the
study of Biblical and patristic texts. Maintaining the highest
scholarly standards, the series includes critical editions, studies
of primary sources, and analyses of textual traditions. J. Rendel
Harris (1852 - 1941), was a prolific writer on biblical and
patristic texts, and a significant collector of ancient
manuscripts, whose colourful life took him from Clare College,
Cambridge, to Johns Hopkins University, Haverford College, Leiden
University, and eventually to the Friends' Settlement at
Woodbrooke, Birmingham. J. Armitage Robinson (1859 - 1933), the
first editor of Texts and Studies, was a New Testament scholar and
a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He went on to become Dean
of Westminster Abbey and then Wells Cathedral.
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