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PATRISTIC STUDIES CATALOGUE 2011 

STUDIA PATRISTICA VOL. XLIV - XLIX 

Papers presented at the Fifteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies 

held in Oxford 2007 

Edited by BAUN J., CAMERON A., EDWARDS M., VINZENT M. 

The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on 

Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis 

of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world 

and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century 

to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small 

and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, 

dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers 

put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic 

scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject. 

• 2010 – Studia Patristica 44 

• XVIII-553 p. 

• 120 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2370-6 

STUDIA PATRISTICA. VOL. XLIV - ARCHAEOLOGICA, ARTS, 

ICONOGRAPHICA, TOOLS, HISTORICA, BIBLICA, 

THEOLOGICA, PHILOSOPHICA, ETHICA 



• 120 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2371-3 

STUDIA PATRISTICA. VOL. XLV – ASCETICA, 

LITURGICA, ORIENTALIA, CRITICA ET PHILOLOGICA, 

FIRST TWO CENTURIES 


• XVI-358 p. 

• 120 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2372-0 

STUDIA PATRISTICA. VOL. XLVI – TERTULLIAN TO 

TYCONIUS, EGYPT BEFORE NICAEA, ATHANASIUS 

AND HIS OPPONENTS 


• XVI-313 p. 

• 120 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2373-7 

STUDIA PATRISTICA. VOL. XLVII – CAPPADOCIAN 

WRITERS, THE SECOND HALF OF THE FOURTH CENTURY 

(GREEK WRITERS) 


• XVI-442 p. 

• 120 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2374-4 

STUDIA PATRISTICA. VOL. XLVIII – FROM THE FIFTH 

CENTURY: GREEK WRITERS, LATIN WRITERS, NACHLEBEN 


• XVI-429 p. 

• 120 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2375-1 

STUDIA PATRISTICA. VOL. XLIX – ST AUGUSTINE 

AND HIS OPPONENTS 


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Available volumes: 

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1975: 

15 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XV - Inaugural Lecture, Editiones, Critica, Biblica, Historica, 

Theologia, Philosophica, Liturgica, 1984, XI-585 p., ISBN: 978-90-429-1328-8 

120 EURO 

16 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XVI - Monastica et Ascetica, Orientalia, E Saeculo Secundo, 

Origen, Athanasius, Cappadocian Fathers, Chrysostom, Augustine. with a Cumulative Index of Contributors to 

Studia Patristica, Vols. I-XVI, 1985, XI-614 p., ISBN: 978-90-429-1329-5 

120 EURO 

Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1979: 

17.1 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XVII, 1 - Historica, Theologica, Gnostica, Biblica, Critica, 

Classica, 1982, XX-460 p. 

151 EURO 

17.2 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XVII, 2 - Ascetica, Liturgica, Second Century, Tertullian to 

Nicea in the West, Origen, 1982, XVI p. - p. 461-978 

151 EURO 

17.3 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XVII, 3 - Athanasius, Cappadocian Fathers, Chrysostom, Augustine 

and his Opponents, Oriental Texts, 1982, XVI p. - p. 979-1405 

151 EURO 

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1983: 

18.1 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XVIII, 1 - Historica, Theologica, Gnostica, Biblica, 1989, 358 

p., ISBN: 978-90-6831-258-4 

63 EURO 

18.2 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XVIII, 2 - Critica, Classica, Ascetica, Liturgica, 1989, 402 p., 

ISBN: 978-90-6831-233-1 

63 EURO 

18.3 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XVIII, 3 - Second Century, Tertullian to Nicaea in the West, 

Clement and Origen, Cappadocian Fathers, 1990, 595 p., ISBN: 978-90-6831-232-4 63 EURO 

18.4 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XVIII, 4 - Augustine, Post Nicene Latin Fathers, Orientalia, 

Nachleben of the Fathers, 1990, 390 p., ISBN: 978-90-6831-301-7 

80 EURO 

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1987: 

19 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XIX - Historica, Theologica, Gnostica, Biblica et Apocrypha, 

1989, XVI-405 p., ISBN: 978-90-6831-231-7 79 EURO 

20 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XX - Critica, Classica, Orientalia, Ascetica, Liturgica, 1989, 

X-408 p., ISBN: 978-90-6831-230-0 79 EURO 

21 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XXI - Second Century, Tertullian to Nicaea in the West, 

Clement of Alexandria and Origen, Athanasius, 1989, X-455 p., ISBN: 978-90-6831-229-4 79 EURO 

22 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XXII - Cappadocian Fathers, Chrysostom and his Greek 

Contemporaries, Augustine, Donatism and Pelagianism, 1989, IV-386 p., ISBN: 978-90-6831-228-7 

79 EURO 

23 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XXIII - Late Greek Fathers, Latin Fathers after Nicaea, 

Nachleben of the Fathers, Index Patrum and Index Auctorum of Vols. XIX-XXIII, 1989, VI-313 p., ISBN: 

978-90-6831-227-0 79 EURO 

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1991: 

24 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XXIV - Historica, Theologica et Philosophica, Gnostica, 1993, 

XVIII-414 p., ISBN: 978-90-6831-520-2 

88 EURO 

25 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XXV - Biblica et Apocrypha, Orientalia, Ascetica, 1993, IX-478 

p., ISBN: 978-90-6831-519-6 

88 EURO 

26 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XXVI - Liturgica, Second Century, Alexandria before Nicaea, 

Athanasius and the Arian Controversy, 1993, X-433 p., ISBN: 978-90-6831-518-9 

88 EURO 

27 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XXVII - Cappadocian Fathers, Greek Authors after Nicaea, 

Augustine, Donatism and Pelagianism, 1993, X-438 p., ISBN: 978-90-6831-521-9 

88 EURO 

28 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XXVIII - Other Latin Authors, Nachleben of the Fathers, Index 

Patrum, 1993, VII-259 p., ISBN: 978-90-6831-522-6 

88 EURO 

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Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1995: 

29 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XXIX - Historica, Theologica et Philosophica, Critica et 

Philologica, 1996, 520 p., ISBN: 978-90-6831-836-4 

88 EURO 

30 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XXX - Biblica et Apocrypha, Ascetica, Liturgica, 1996, 408 p., 

ISBN: 978-90-6831-840-1 

88 EURO 

31 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XXXI - Preaching, Second Century, Tertullian to Arnobius, 

Egypt before Nicaea, 1996, VI-568 p., ISBN: 978-90-6831-847-0 

88 EURO 

32 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XXXII - Athanasius and his Opponents, Cappadocian Fathers, 

Other Greek Writers after Nicaea, 1996, VI-408 p., ISBN: 978-90-6831-854-8 

88 EURO 

33 Livingstone E.A. (ed.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XXXIII - Augustine and his Opponents, Jerome, Other Latin 

Fathers after Nicaea, Orientalia, Index Patrum and Table of Contents, 1996, VI-585 p., ISBN: 978-90-6831- 

868-5 88 EURO 

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1999: 

34 Wiles M.F., Yarnold E.J. (eds.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XXXIV - Historica, Biblica, Theologica et Philosophica, 

2001, XVIII-604 p., ISBN: 978-90-429-0881-9 100 EURO 

35 Wiles M.F., Yarnold E.J. (eds.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XXXV - Ascetica, Gnostica, Liturgica, Orientalia, 

2001, XVI-535 p., ISBN: 978-90-429-0922-9 100 EURO 

36 Wiles M.F., Yarnold E.J. (eds.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XXXVI - Critica et Philologica, Nachleben, First Two 

Centuries, Tertulian to Arnobius, Egypt before Nicaea, Athanasius and his Opponents, 2001, XVI-519 p., 

ISBN: 978-90-429-0923-6 

100 EURO 

37 Wiles M.F., Yarnold E.J. (eds.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XXXVII - Cappadocian Writers. Other Greek Writers, 

2001, XVI-635 p., ISBN: 978-90-429-0957-1 100 EURO 

38 Wiles M.F., Yarnold E.J. (eds.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XXXVIII - St. Augustine and his Opponents. Other 

Latin Writers, 2001, XVI-550 p., ISBN: 978-90-429-0964-9 

100 EURO 

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2003: 

39 Young F., Edwards M., Parvis P. (eds.), Studia Patristica XXXIX - Historica, Biblica, Ascetica et Hagiographica, 

2006, XVI-472 p. ISBN 978-90-429-1882-5 

120 EURO 

40 Young F., Edwards M., Parvis P. (eds.), Studia Patristica XL - Liturgia et Cultus, Theologica et Philosophica, 

Critica et Philologica, Nachleben, First Two Centuries, 2006, XVI-526 p. ISBN 978-90-429-1883-2 

120 EURO 

41 Young F., Edwards M., Parvis P. (eds.), Studia Patristica XLI - Orientalia, Clement, Origen, Athanasius, 

The Cappadocians, Chrysostom, 2006, XVIII-475 p. ISBN 978-90-429-1884-9 

120 EURO 

42 Young F., Edwards M., Parvis P. (eds.), Studia Patristica XLII - Other Greek Writers, John of Damascus and 

Beyond, The West to Hilary, 2006, XVI-415 p. ISBN 978-90-429-1885-6 

120 EURO 

43 Young F., Edwards M., Parvis P., (eds.), Studia Patristica XLIII - Augustine, Other Latin Writers, 2006, 

XVIII-569 p. ISBN 978-90-429-1886-3 

120 EURO 

Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2007: 

44 Baun J., Cameron A., Edwards M., Vinzent M. (eds.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XLIV - Archaeologica, Arts, 

Iconographica, Tools, Historica, Biblica, Theologica, Philosophica, Ethica, 2010, XVIII-553 p., ISBN: 978-90- 

429-2370-6 120 EURO 

45 Baun J., Cameron A., Edwards M., Vinzent M. (eds.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XLV - Ascetica, Liturgica, 

Orientalia, Critica et Philologica, First Two Centuries, 2010, XVIII-451 p., ISBN: 978-90-429-2371-3 

120 EURO 

46 Baun J., Cameron A., Edwards M., Vinzent M. (eds.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XLVI - Tertullian to Tyconius, 

Egypt before Nicaea, Athanasius and his Opponents, 2010, XVI-358 p., ISBN: 978-90-429-2372-0 120 EURO 

47 Baun J., Cameron A., Edwards M., Vinzent M. (eds.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XLVII - Cappadocian Writers, 

The Second Half of the Fourth Century (Greek Writers), 2010, XVI-313 p., ISBN: 978-90-429-2373-7 

120 EURO 

48 Baun J., Cameron A., Edwards M., Vinzent M. (eds.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XLVIII - From the Fifth Century: 

Greek Writers, Latin Writers, Nachleben, 2010, XVI-442 p., ISBN: 978-90-429-2374-4 120 EURO 

49 Baun J., Cameron A., Edwards M., Vinzent M. (eds.), Studia Patristica. Vol. XLIX - St Augustine and his 

Opponents, 2010, XVI-429 p., ISBN: 978-90-429-2375-1 

120 EURO 


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STUDIA PATRISTICA. VOL. L 

BRENT A., VINZENT M. (eds.) 

This volume includes papers presented at the National Conference on Patristic Studies held at Cambridge 

in the Faculty of Divinity under Allen Brent, Thomas Graumann and Judith Lieu in 2009. 

• 2011 – Studia Patristica 50 

• XIV-327 p. 

• 100 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2449-9 

STUDIA PATRISTICA. VOL. LI 

BRENT A., KHOMYCH T., VAKULA O., VINZENT M. (EDS.) 

This volume includes papers presented at the Conference ‘The Image of the Perfect Christian in 

Patristic Thought’ at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine, under Taras Khomych, 

Oleksandra Vakula and Oleh Kindiy in 2009. 

• 2011 – Studia Patristica 51 

• XVI-216 p. 

• forthcoming 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2555-7 

PLOTINUS, ENNEAD II 9 [33] “AGAINST THE GNOSTICS” 

A Commentary 

SPANU N. 

• 2011 – Studia Patristica 

Supplement 1 


• ISBN 978-90-429-2583-0 

This book consists in a commentary and translation of Plotinus’s Ennead II 9 [33], entitled by Porphyry 

Against the Gnostics. The commentary has tried to go beyond the traditional approach, based on the 

idea that Plotinus’s Ennead II 9 is the theatre of the clash of two antithetical worldviews: the first, 

championed by Plotinus; the second, by his Gnostic disciples; on the contrary, the Ennead II 9 [33] 

represents a dialogue between a master of philosophy and his own disciples. Plotinus’s disciples do not 

regard Gnosticism as distant from Plato. In contrast, Plotinus does not think that Plato is a precursor 

of Gnosticism, even if he is aware that his doctrines can be interpreted in a dualistic and Gnostic fashion. 

He agrees with his disciples that for Plato sensible and intelligible reality, as well as Soul and body, 

are different; however, Plotinus thinks that their different nature can be ultimately traced back to the 

same principle, namely being, which contains in itself all possibilities of existence. This is the true 

gnosis that Plotinus has tried to make his disciples obtain by writing the Ennead II 9 [33]. 



AUTOBIOGRAPHIE UND HAGIOGRAPHIE IN 

DER CHRISTLICHEN ANTIKE 

VAN OORT J., WYRWA D. (eds.) 

‘Autobiographie und Hagiographie’ – mit dieser Themenwahl hat die Patristische Arbeitsgemeinschaft 

erneut ihre Sensibilität für innovative Forschungsimpulse und aktuelle Forschungsdiskussionen unter 

Beweis gestellt. 

• 2009 – Patristic Studie 7 

• X-129 p. 

• 36 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2212-9 

Aus dem Inhalt: 

Rudolf Brändle (Basel), Anfänge christlicher Autobiographie von Paulus bis Cyprian. Eine Skizze. 

Dietmar Wyrwa (Bochum), Literarische und theologische Gestaltungselemente der Vita Antonii des 

Athanasius. 

Ernst Dassmann (Bonn), Autobiographie und Hagiographie: Zur Selbstdarstellung des Hieronymus 

in seinen Mönchsviten, Nekrologen und Trostbriefen. 

Alfred Schindler (Zürich), Hagiographie und Hagiologie in Augustins Werk, vor allem in den Confessiones. 

CHRISTENTUM UND POLITIK IN DER ALTEN KIRCHE 

VAN OORT J., HESSE O. (eds.) 

• 2009 – Patristic Studies 8 

• XIV-154 p. 

• 38 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2165-8 

Im Januar 2005 widmete sich die 25. Tagung der Patristischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft in Goslar dem 

Thema “Christentum und Politik in der Alten Kirche”. Damit griff die Patristische Arbeitsgemeinschaft 

erstmals eingehend ein Themenfeld auf, welches seit ihrer Gründung immer wieder in ihrer Arbeit 

angesprochen wurde. Der vorliegende Band enthält fast alle Vorträge der Tagung in ausgearbeiteter 

Form, außerdem den Text der Morgenandacht, die im Rahmen der Tagung stattfand. 

Die Untersuchung des Verhältnisses von politischer Macht und Religion innerhalb verschiedener historischer 

Horizonte erweist sich dabei als relevant auch für gegenwärtige Positionsbestimmungen. Mit 

der Wahl der Kaiserpfalz Goslar als Tagungsort wurde an die westliche Tradition dieses Verhältnisses 

gleichsam symbolisch erinnert; die kirchenhistorische Arbeit der Tagung jedoch konzentrierte sich auf 

Fragestellungen aus dem Bereich der Ostkirche, von der Antike bis in die jüngste Zeit. Sowohl der 

regulierende politische Eingriff in die Sphäre der Religion als auch die starke christliche Einflußnahme 

auf die Politik und die geistesgeschichtliche Durchdringung beider Bereiche werden in den Beiträgen 

in den Blick genommen. 

ETHIK IM ANTIKEN CHRISTENTUM 

BRENNECKE H.C., VAN OORT J. (eds.) 

«Ethik im antiken Christentum» war das Thema des Treffens der Patristischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft im 

Januar 2003 in Heilsbronn bei Nürnberg. Die dort gehaltenen Vorträge international ausgewiesener 

Spezialisten aus verschiedenen Disziplinen der Altertumswissenschaften und der Theologie dokumentiert 

dieser Band. Die ergänzten und aktualisierten Beiträgen zeigen, daß bei diesem Thema noch erheblicher 

Forschungsbedarf besteht. Deutlich wird an den Beiträgen auch, daß und wie sich das antike Christentum 

in einen gesammtgesellschaftlichen ethischen Diskurs einmischte und ihn mit gestaltete. 

Folgende Beiträge wurden aufgenommen: 

• 2011 – Patristic Studies 9 

• VIII-113 p. 

• 34 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2442-0 

Ekkehard Mühlenberg (Göttingen), Altchristliche Lebensführung zwischen Bibel und Tugendlehre. 

Michael Erler (Würzburg), «Bezinge das Kind im Menschen»: Ein Element platonischer Ethik als 

Hintergrund von Clemens’ Paedagogus. 

Uwe Kühneweg (Wien), Die Bedeutung der Ethik für die Selbstdefinition des Christlichen im 

2. Jahrhundert. 

Karl Leo Noethlichs (Aachen), Christliche Ethik in der Gesetzgebung Konstantins? 

Johannes Zachhuber (Oxford), Die patristische Ethik der homoiôsis theôi und die Mimesislehre René 

Girards. Perspektiven der Aneignung einer theologisch-philosophischen Tradition. 


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DIE SPÄTANTIKE KIRCHE NORDAFRIKAS IM UMBRUCH 

VAN OORT J., WISCHMEYER W. (eds.) 

»Kirchen in den Umbrüchen der Spätantike am Beispiel Nordafrika« war das Thema des Treffens der 

Patristischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft im Januar 2007 in Wien. Verschiedene der dort gehaltenen Vorträge 

international ausgewiesener Spezialisten sind in diesem Band aufgenommen. Der Band versucht Akzente 

zu setzen in der Christentumsgeschichte Nordafrikas, und bemüht sich dabei stark um eine historische 

und archäologische Kontextualisierung. Dabei erscheint Nordafrika nicht nur als eine Kulturlandschaft, 

die durch ihren christlichen Autoren bestimmend für die lateinische Christenheit geworden ist; vielmehr 

ist es auch als eine eigene Entität bemerkens- und beachtenswert. 


• XVI-124 p. 


• ISBN 978-90-429-2500-7 

LITURGIE UND RITUAL IN DER ALTEN KIRCHE 

Patristische Beiträge zum Studium der gottesdienstlichen Quellen der Alten Kirche 

KINZIG W., VOLP U., SCHMIDT J. (eds.) 

Die Liturgiegeschichte der Alten Kirche hat durch die Aufnahme ritualtheoretischer Überlegungen aus 

dem Bereich der Anthropologie und Ethnologie sowie durch die stärkere Beachtung theologiegeschichtlicher 

Reflexe im Vollzug des Gottesdienstes in den letzten Jahren neue Impulse erfahren. Sie 

prägen auch die Beiträge dieses Bandes, die aus der Tagung der Patristischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft im 

Januar 2009 in Bonn hervorgegangen sind. Ein zeitlicher Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf der Geschichte 

des Gottesdienstes im 4. und 5. Jahrhundert. 


• VIII-238 p. 

• 38 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2461-1 

INQUIRIES INTO EASTERN CHRISTIAN WORSHIP 

Selected Papers of the Second International Congress of the Society of Oriental Liturgies, 

Rome, 17-21 September 2008 

GROEN B., HAWKES-TEEPLES S., ALEXOPOULOS S. (eds.) 

• 2011 – Eastern Christian Studies 12 

• XII-510 p. 


• ISBN 978-90-429-2492-5 

This volume contains twenty-five selected papers of the 2008 congress of the Society of Oriental 

Liturgy held in Rome. The Society is a non-confessional scholarly association dedicated to the study 

of Eastern Christian worship, founded at its first congress in Eichstätt, Germany in 2006. The 

Society’s scope and purpose is to foster that study in all its aspects, such as the origins of Eastern 

liturgy, history, current practice, theology, and spirituality. The field includes related disciplines, such 

as hymnography, architecture, iconography, and their multiple methodologies. This volume shows the 

great variety of the field in question and brings to light new interesting and relevant research results 

by scholars working in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The papers deal with, inter alia, the 

Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Georgian, Greek, Russian, Serbian, Syriac, and Ukrainian ritual-liturgical 

traditions, their development, and their meaning. 



MAKING MYTHS 

Jews in Early Christian Identity Formation 

RUTGERS L.V. 

• 2009 

• VIII-151 p. 

• 22 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2240-2 

Were the Jews who appear so abundantly in the writings of the early Church real or were they figments 

of the imagination? 

In this new book, Leonard Rutgers argues that they were both. Exploring Jewish-Christian interaction 

in Late Antiquity in the form of three case studies, Rutgers shows that early Christian ideas about Jews 

and Judaism not only played a determining role in the ideologies that shaped early Christian identity 

formation. They also had a tendency to spill over into the real world. Therefore such ideas deeply influenced 

the dynamics of Jewish-Christian relations during a period that saw the curtailing of Jewish civil 

rights and liberties precisely as a result of early Christian exegetical activity. 

Making Myths draws a picture of Jewish-Christian relations in Late Antiquity that is significantly bleaker 

than the optimistic view of Roman-period Jewish history that permeates many recent studies on the 

topic. An epilogue sets out to explain why more irenic scenarios do not apply to the period under study. 

EARLY JUDAEO-CHRISTIANITY 

Historical Essays 

MIMOUNI S.C. 

• 2011 – Interdisciplinary Studies in 

Ancient Culture and Religion 13 

• XIV-458 p. 


• ISBN 978-90-429-2482-6 

The essays presented here are the results of over ten years study. To appreciate the development of 

Christianity in the ancient world, knowledge of the Jewish parameter remains as important as that of 

the pagan parameter. The question is to know when, how and why Christianity left Judaism to 

become an independent religion. In other words, at what moment did the disciples of Jesus consider 

themselves as no longer Jews or pagans, but rather as Christians? What are the historian’s sources? 

Christianity built its history through the diligence of its theologians. The historian must therefore 

detach himself from this perspective, explaining the traditional sources, recovering in them historical 

elements which facilitate bringing to light the gradual separation. 

BETWEEN ROME AND JERUSALEM: 

HEROD THE GREAT AND HIS SONS IN 

THEIR STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION 

A Chronological Investigation of the Period 40 BC – 39 AD, 

with a Time Setting of New Testament Events 

MAHIEU B. 

• 2011 – Orientalia Lovaniensia 

Analecta 208 

• XXXVIII-615 p. 


• ISBN 978-90-429-2497-0 

The present study proposes a challenging new chronological framework for the Herodian age, a critical 

period in Jewish history. Not only do the rules of Herod the Great and his sons receive altered time 

settings, but the birth and death of Jesus are also placed several years later than is generally accepted. 

As a consequence of this the dates of Paul’s apostolate are reexamined. Ostensibly narrow in scope, 

these modifications entail far-reaching implications for our understanding of the Syro-Palestinian 

region at the beginning of the present era. Interconnections between numerous events are established 

and tensions within and between the Herodian and Hasmonean dynasties are laid bare. It is shown 

that Roman impact on the East was substantial, with a strong Hellenistic influence exerted on local 

cultures. Several customs of the Jewish and early Christian communities, hitherto unknown, are also 

brought to light. Both in its details and in its overall sweep this important work sets up a stimulating 

reference point for future historical investigations of the Herodian and New Testament worlds. 


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PSEUDOCLEMENTINA ELCHASAITICAQUE INTER 

JUDAEOCHRISTIANA 

Collected Studies 

JONES F.S. 


Analecta 203 

• XIV-531 p. 


• ISBN 978-90-429-2452-9 

Alongside his long-awaited systematic introduction to the Pseudo-Clementines, F. Stanley Jones collects 

into one volume over thirty new and previously published essays on the Pseudo-Clementines, Elchasai, 

and Jewish Christianity. This corpus spans three decades of concerted research into manuscripts, 

ancient witnesses, editions, translations, reconstructions, and historical analysis. A chorus of Jewish 

Christian voices from second/third-century Syria emerges and reveals distinctive beliefs and literary 

productions in their interface with contemporary Judaism, gentile Christianity, and the pagan world. 

The Book of Elchasai, for example, is reconstructed and translated as an eye-opening church order 

from 116-117 C.E. This volume provides vistas for new appreciations of ancient Jewish Christianity 

as well as of the sparkling diversity in early Christianity generally. 

THE PSEUDO-CLEMENTINES 

BREMMER J.N. (ed.) 

• 2010 – Studies on Early Christian 

Apocrypha 10 

• XVI-342 p. 

• 48 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2269-3 

This book is one of the first modern collections of studies on important aspects of the Pseudo- 

Clementines, which occupy a special place among the early Christian writings, due to their complicated 

origin and their relevance in reconstructing Jewish Christianity. The volume starts with two chapters 

which discuss the problems of the date, place, text and genre of the Pseudo-Clementines. The majority 

of chapters focus on various aspects and passages of the Homilies and Recognitions. In the Homilies we 

look at philanthropy, the relationship between Judaism and Hellenism, Appion and Annoubion, 

Enochic traditions, Orphic cosmogonies, philosophical sources, the theory of two ways and the conversion 

of families. In the Recognitions we look at the theme of recognition, the doctrine of free will, figures 

of speech, the Sadducees and the narrative intention of speeches. Finally, both works are interrogated 

on their uses of centre and periphery. The volume concludes with a discussion of Clement in the 

Legenda Aurea and, as has become customary, with an extensive bibliography and index. 

THE VISIO PAULI AND 

THE GNOSTIC APOCALYPS OF PAUL 

BREMMER J.N., CZACHESZ I. (eds.) 

• 2007 – Studies on 

Early Christian Apocrypha 9 

• XIV-249 p. 

• 41 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-1851-1 

The «Visio Pauli» and the Gnostic «Apocalypse of Paul» is the first modern collection of studies on the 

most important aspects of the Visio Pauli, the most popular early Christian apocalypse in the Middle 

Ages. The volume starts with a short study of the textual traditions of the Visio Pauli, its Jewish and 

early Christian traditions as well as its influence on later literature, such as Dante. This is followed by 

studies of the Prologue, the four rivers of Eden, the place of the Ocean, the relation between body 

and soul, the image of hell and its punishments, and the connection with fantastic literature. Finally, 

a codicological, comparative, and textual re-evaluation of the Coptic translation attempts to correct 

earlier errors and to rehabilitate the value and interest of this long neglected version of the Visio Pauli. 

The book is concluded with a study of the earthly tribunal in the fourth heaven of the Gnostic 

Apocalypse of Paul. As has become customary, the volume is rounded off by an extensive bibliography 

of the Visio Pauli and the Gnostic Apocalypse of Paul and a detailed index. 



MONOTHEISM BETWEEN PAGANS AND 

CHRISTIANS IN LATE ANTIQUITY 

MITCHELL S., VAN NUFFELEN P. (eds.) 

• 2010 – Interdisciplinary Studies in 


• VI-225 p. 

• 48 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2242-6 

The fourth century was a major religious battleground. The rise of Christianity, and in particular its 

dominance from Constantine onwards, marked an important shift in the religious history of the 

Mediterranean. Christianity saw this change as the victory of its monotheism over the polytheism of paganism. 

This volume studies how similarities between paganism and Christianity were obscured in the polemic 

that was waged by Christianity against paganism and in the pagan responses to it. The volume includes 

papers on Porphyry, Augustine, Themistius, Latin verse inscriptions, as well as dealing with the different 

ways in which Christian and pagan thinkers conceived of monotheism. A recurring theme in the papers 

shows that a concrete religious issue lay at the heart of such polemic: who can one worship? Christians 

would restrict worship to their God, whereas pagans accepted cultic acts for the many traditional deities. 

The debate about monotheism was therefore not just about conceptions of the divine, but was part of the 

creation and defence of social, cultural and religious identities in Late Antiquity. In exploring how the 

notion of monotheism was shaped by Late Antique polemic and how this still influences our understanding 

of it, this volume also hopes to inform contemporary debates about the dangers of monotheism. 

ENTRE LIGNES DE PARTAGE ET TERRITOIRES DE PASSAGE 

Les identités religieuses dans les mondes grec et romain. «Paganismes», «judaïsmes», 

«christianismes» 

BELAYCHE N., MIMOUNI S.C. (eds.) 

• 2009 – Collection de la Revue 

des Études Juives 47 

• VIII-502 p. 

• 75 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2130-6 

Dans le monde dit classique, les «identités religieuses» – c’est-à-dire les perceptions d’une singularité 

de soi ou des autres énoncée sur la base de la représentation d’un référent conçu comme supérieur et 

des relations construites avec lui – n’échappent pas au principe du collectif. Les affichages identitaires 

s’inscrivant dans des stratégies de représentation, il s’est agi de comprendre la place et la part de l’identité 

religieuse dans l’identité sociale, d’établir le lien éventuel entre des affirmations identitaires appuyées 

et des sociétés ambiantes où la pluralité religieuse fait voisiner identités statuaires et identités choisies, 

d’examiner si un même sujet adhérent de plusieurs cultes se représente comme porteur d’identités 

religieuses différentes, d’étudier comment la forme sociale du système religieux de référence (civique, 

ethnique, universel) intervient dans la définition et les modalités des identités religieuses, et, donc, en 

prenant appui sur des travaux existants sur les identités juives et chrétiennes, se demander si – et si oui, 

en quoi? – l’émergence du christianisme a fait naître une identité religieuse d’un type nouveau. 

LE MONACHISME FÉMININ ANTIQUE 

Idéal hiéronymien et réalité historique 

LAURENCE P. 

• 2010 – Spicilegium Sacrum 

Lovaniense 52 

• VIII-362 p. 

• 70 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2297-6 

Ce volume réunit 13 articles publiés entre 1997 et 2007 par M. Patrick Laurence, Professeur à l’Université 

de Tours. Quatre index (sources bibliques, sources anciennes citées, noms propres, thèmes et realia divers) 

favorisent la consultation du nouvel ensemble. 

Les treize études permettent de se familiariser aisément à la fois avec la mentalité très particulière et l’idéal 

ascétique de S. Jérôme et avec les réalités de la vie des clercs et des ascètes, surtout féminines mais pas uniquement, 

entre 370 et 420, principalement dans l’univers latinophone. Citant et traduisant abondamment 

les sources, M. Laurence nous fournit un accès à la fois facile et sûr à ce monde si différent du nôtre. 

L’angle d’observation est évidemment la femme et son statut, dans et hors de l’Église. Mais cet angle est si 

large que, lorsqu’on referme le livre, on est surpris de tout ce qu’on y a appris. Retenons deux aspects particulièrement 

frappants: Jérôme et ses contemporains sont encore imprégnés d’une vieille morale romaine, 

sévère mais préchrétienne; les femmes, malgré la tutelle sous laquelle on les maintenait, pouvaient, si elles 

étaient de l’aristocratie, s’instruire, décider, fonder de nouvelles institutions comme elles l’entendaient. 


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WRITING TO SURVIVE. A COMMENTARY ON SIDONIUS 

APOLLINARIS. LETTERS BOOK 7 

Volume 1: The Episcopal Letters 1-11 

VAN WAARDEN J.A. 

• 2010 – Late Antique History and 

Religion 2 

• XII-659 p. 

• 85 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2320-1 

A key figure in late antique Gaul, Sidonius Apollinaris is still insufficiently understood. This study aims 

to contribute to an up-to-date appreciation. It is a philological and historical commentary with many of 

the qualities of a monograph. Focusing on eleven letters written by Sidonius to his fellow bishops, one 

of which contains the only surviving example of Sidonius’ prose oratory, it fills an important gap in the 

critical coverage of his literary production. A lengthy introduction situates the letters within Sidonius’ 

life and works, the politics of the last years of the Roman empire in the west, and the traditions of late 

antique epistolography. The book offers a reappraisal of late antique stylistic ‘mannerism’ as ‘community 

art’ which gives preference to the socially unifying function of art over its individual creative potential. 

This is a work which will be of interest to classicists and medievalists, to literary scholars and church 

historians, to those concerned with philological and historical intricacies and those interested in the 

broader development of literature and mentalities in Late Antiquity. 

CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE 

Studies in His Life, Language and Thought 

BAKKER H., VAN GEEST P., VAN LOON H. (eds.) 

• 2010 – Late Antique History and 

Religion 3 

• XX-307 p. 

• 65 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2397-3 

Up to Augustine, bishop Cyprian of Carthage was the theological authority in the West, and he has 

continued to influence theology ever since. Cyprian of Carthage. Studies in His Life, Language and 

Thought is the result of a symposium on this Church Father held by the Centre for Patristic Research 

(CPO), which is an initiative of VU University Amsterdam and Tilburg University. The symposium 

was held on the occasion of the 1750th anniversary of his martyrdom, which took place on 

14 September 258. Virtually all contributions are from Dutch scholars who are members of the CPO. 

They cover Cyprian’s biography, hermeneutical and philological questions, theological issues such as 

baptism and the role of the laity in episcopal elections, and the reception of the Church Father’s texts 

in ancient and modern times. 

CHURCH, CITIES, AND PEOPLE 

A Study of the Plebs in the Church and Cities of Roman Africa in Late Antiquity 

EVERS A. 

• 2010 – Interdisciplinary Studies in 


• XIV-367 p. 

• 58 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2206-8 

This book is an attempt to make sense of the position of the plebs in the Church and cities of Roman 

Africa in Late Antiquity. By looking at the terminology of plebs and populus in Christian texts, in 

combination with aspects of the vast amount of archaeological evidence and epigraphy, Evers seeks to 

establish a much closer link between text and context, arguing that the laity in the Early Church had 

an active role to play. The writings of Cyprian of Carthage, Optatus of Milevis, and Augustine of 

Hippo are taken more at face value, and not discarded as purely theological treatises and other programmatic 

products of the Christian pen. Christian texts, certainly of earlier times, most of all aimed 

at convincing an audience as large as possible. The “rhetoric of Empire” became rapidly adapted by the 

great minds of the Early Church to the needs of Christianity. Their works continued to refer to real, 

social, political, and cultural frameworks outside the texts. Both plebs and populus continued to have 

significant social and political connotations. The conversion of Emperor Constantine did not bring 

about a rapid change. Orthodoxy, and hence authority, was not established and secured overnight. The 

ecclesiastical hierarchy, moulded over centuries, and with the structures of Empire as its prime example. 

Arguably, the position of the plebs Christiana was a reflection of that of the plebs urbana, the people in 

the cities of Roman Africa. The Empire and its cities acted as a model for the Church, hence the 

Church became a mirror for the cities and the Empire. 



THE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF GOD 

Augustine as a Negative Theologian 

VAN GEEST P. 

• 2011 – Late Antique History and 

Religion 4 

• XIV-262 p. 

• 65 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2473-4 

Augustine’s way of speaking about God has been frequently deplored. It has been dismissed as too 

confident regarding the content of its assertions and too narrowly confined. The reception of Augustine’s 

work appears to indicate that there was not a little truth to this view. Augustine’s affirmative statements 

on God’s essence and activities constituted the ‘initial capital’ of Christian theology and spirituality. 

The presupposition of this book is that, throughout his life, Augustine maintained a balance between 

speaking about God and remaining silent about him to a much greater extent than has often been 

realized. On the one hand, as a priest and a bishop, he wished to prevent misunderstandings concerning 

the nature of God’s essence and activity. On the other hand, as a young priest, he already showed 

his concern to drive home to the faithful the idea that God was a mystery. 

If Augustine positioned himself at the cutting edge of speaking and remaining silent, then his work is 

once more of importance for the future of the Christian faith, because it recognizes that the tension 

between affirmative and negative discourse about God has been characteristic of the Christian tradition 

from time immemorial. 

THE LONGING OF THE HEART 

Augustine’s Doctrine on Prayer 

VAN BAVEL T.J. 

• 2009 

• VI-175 p. 

• 30 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-1975-4 

Augustine often falls outside the scope of people that look for prayers among famous spiritual masters. 

Presumably this is caused by the absence of a monograph on prayer by his hand. However, anyone 

who knows his writings, also knows that the force of this inspiring man was based on prayer. Who 

else than the celebrated authority on Augustine, T.J. van Bavel (1923-2007), can introduce us to this 

dimension of Augustine. In this book he shows how this passionate North African combined the inner 

self, prayer, intellectual effort and pastoral dedication to a harmonious whole. His Confessions, confessions 

of sin and gratitude, are monumental and belong to our religious heritage. His Sermons about 

the Psalms formed the right moments to incite his faithful to a life of prayer. One will hardly find in 

his other writings and sermons texts that do not mention the theme of prayer. Much of his ideas have 

influenced greatly religious leaders of later times. 

AUGUSTINE AND POSTMODERN THOUGHT 

A New Alliance against Modernity? 

BOEVE L., LAMBERIGTS M., WISSE M. (eds.) 

• 2009 – Bibliotheca Ephemeridum 

Theologicarum Lovaniensium 219 


• 80 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2120-7 

This book publishes the papers of an expert symposium on the return of Augustine in current postmodern 

philosophical-theological debates. The North-African Church Father, or at least the thinking 

patterns or intuitions borrowed from him, are often invoked in discussions on the relation between 

Christian faith and the contemporary postmodern context. On the one hand, one observes the 

retrieval of rather premodern approaches in order to remedy the so-called (post-)modern crisis, which 

is said to result in nihilism, relativism, etc. For what seems to attract some theologians in Augustinian 

thinking is the (apparent) marriage between Greek (neo-Platonic) philosophy and Christian faith. 

Such a combination of premodern metaphysics and Christian faith would serve as a necessary presupposition 

for every legitimate theological epistemology. On the other hand, there are theologians and 

philosophers who are increasingly trying to reread Augustine from a postmodern stance, stressing the 

role of particularity, narrativity, historicity, and the decentring of subjectivity, which they see present in 

Augustine’s approach, or from which they deconstruct Augustine’s thinking. 


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ORIGENIANA NONA 

Origen and the Religious Practice of His Time 

HEIDL G., SOMOS R. (eds.) 



• XIV-752 p. 

• 95 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2234-1 

This volume contains the written versions of the lectures delivered by the participants of the 

Colloquium Origenianum Nonum held in Pécs (Hungary, 29 August – 2 September 2005). The main 

topic of the conference was Origen and the religious practice of his time. Here 49 scholars from some 

18 countries publish their newest findings on the greatest and most influential Christian thinker before 

Augustine, who laid the foundation of the Biblical textual studies, created systematic theology, and was 

regarded as an authentic spiritual leader of Christianity. The papers not only provide the best overview 

on a lively field of studies but also demonstrate how Origen’s heritage in Christian history, theology 

and spirituality carried with it the imprint of one of the most vital traditions of our civilization. 

ORIGENIANA DECIMA 

Origen as Writer 

KACZMAREK S., PIETRAS H. (eds.) 

• 2011 – Bibliotheca Ephemeridum 



• ISBN 978-90-429-2529-8 

This volume contains the proceedings of the tenth meeting of the international “Origeniana” conference 

which is convened every four years. The overall theme of the “Origeniana Decima” is “Origen 

as writer”. The volume is divided into eight parts which are preceded by two introductory papers that 

introduce the reader into some of the secrets of Origen’s writing techniques. The first part consists of 

two essays that deal with two intellectual traditions that had a major influence on Origen, Neo- 

Platonism and the rabbinic exegetical tradition. Part Two deals with the scope and complexity of 

Origen’s oeuvre and Part Three with aspects of hermeneutics. Part Four focuses on the Apologies, 

with special interest in the Contra Celsum, and Part Five on the commentaries and the homilies. The 

sixth part includes articles on various aspects of Origen’s language. Part Seven deals with the philosophical 

sources as these are used in exegetical and other works. Part Eight, on the disciples and followers 

of Origen, is the longest one with nineteen essays. Overall, this is once more an excellent 

specimen of the famous Origeniana conferences which for now almost forty years bring together 

specialists from all over the world. This volume, like previous ones in the series, will contribute significantly 

to our knowledge of Origen’s achievements and of his influence. 

PSEUDO-ATANASIO. 

DIALOGHI IV E V SULLA SANTA TRINITA 

CAPONE A. 

• 2011 – Corpus Scriptorum 

Christianorum Orientalium 634 

• XX-215 p. 


• ISBN 978-90-429-2381-2 

Il volume presenta l’edizione critica con traduzione italiana a fronte di due testi greci pseudoepigrafi 

abitualmente noti con il titolo di Dialogi de sancta Trinitate IV-V (CPG 2284). Gli opuscoli, che 

appartengono ad autori e ambienti culturali differenti, sono incentrati sui problemi sollevati dalla 

controversia apollinarista e sono stati assemblati insieme ad altri scritti in un periodo che non si può 

definire con precisione, quasi a formare un corpus delle principali eresie tra IV e V secolo. Per il quarto 

dialogo, oltre al testo greco, si pubblicano anche l’antica versione latina e quella armena, grazie alle 

quali è stato possibile non solo sciogliere alcuni problemi testuali, ma anche avere uno sguardo 

d’insieme su tutta la tradizione del testo. Le note di commento e gli indices (locorum Sacrae Scripturae 

e verborum) completano il volume, che offre pertanto anche un contributo significativo per la comprensione 

della polemica apollinarista. 



ARMENIAN PARADIGMS 

Revised and edited by Michael E. Stone 

STERLING G.E. 

Armenian Paradigms provides a systematic presentation of the morphology of classical Armenian. 

Developed in the context of a course in Armenian at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, it serves as 

a pedagogical aid for any who are learning or reviewing classical Armenian. The booklet is invaluable 

for beginning students who need to see the full scope of grammatical forms arranged according to the 

parts of speech as well as for advanced students who want to a review. 

• 2004 

• X-45 p. 

• 10 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-1382-0 

GRECISMS IN ANCIENT ARMENIAN 

MURADYAN G. 

This book is a systematic presentation of the linguistic features in all the published Ancient Armenian 

texts, mainly belonging to the so-called Hellenizing School of translations (late fifth – early eighth 

century), which are explained by Greek influence. These features include various types of lexical, 

morphological and syntactical Grecisms. Many of them are also characteristic of “pre-Hellenizing” 

translations; a few examples of some of them are found in the early classical translations from Greek. 

In all cases the corresponding passages of the Greek originals (if extant) are cited. Most of the sections 

concluded with examples of the classical translation practice of the corresponding linguistic features 

without any Greek influence. In an appendix, various features of Latinizing Armenian (seventeenth 

century) are traced back to Hellenizing Armenian. 

• 2011 – Hebrew University 

Armenian Studies 13 

• IV-280 p. 


• ISBN 978-90-429-2346-1 

CATALOGUE OF THE ADDITIONAL ARMENIAN MANU- 

SCRIPTS IN THE CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY, DUBLIN 

STONE M.E., STONE N. 



• XII-224 p. 


• ISBN 978-90-429-2232-7 

The Chester Beatty Library in Dublin has a world-famous collection of oriental manuscripts assembled 

by the late Sir Alfred Chester Beatty during the last century. A catalogue of the Armenian manuscripts 

was prepared by the eminent historian of Armenian art, Sirarpie Der Nersessian, in the 1950’s. The 

present catalogue presents some manuscripts which Dr. Der Nersessian did not catalogue and those 

which entered the collection after her catalogue was completed. It was prepared by Michael Stone, 

Professor of Armenian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Nira Stone, lecturer in 

Armenian Art at the same university. It deals in considerable detail with each manuscript, its codicology, 

its structure and its text (M.E. Stone) and a study of its illuminations (Nira Stone). The book 

contains onomastic and iconographical indexes. It completes the publication of the Armenian manuscripts 

of the Chester Beatty Library and will eventually be followed by a further volume dedicated to 

other Armenian holdings, notably old printed books and metal bindings. 


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A MINOR EDITION OF THE ARMENIAN VERSION OF 

JOSEPH AND ASENETH 

With an Index of Words by Joseph J.S. Weitenberg 

BURCHARD C. 

• 2010 – Hebrew University 


• VIII-211 p. 

• 43 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2041-5 

The Jewish-Hellenistic story about Joseph and Aseneth tells first how Aseneth, the daughter of 

Pentephres the priest of Heliopolis, became the wife of the patriarch Joseph following her conversion 

to the God of the Hebrews, and secondly how she was saved from an attempt to abduct her perpetrated 

by Pharao’s first-born son. The tale was adopted by the Christian Church and circulated widely 

from Middle Byzantine times on in its original Greek and a number of vernacular renderings. The 

Armenian version (10/11th cent.?) is preserved in about 50 mss., many of them Bibles. Moreover, 

it is an excellent witness to the Greek text. Oddly enough we do not have a complete edition, let alone 

a critical one. For an editio maior a lot of preliminary studies remain to be done. This book presents 

a minor edition as a substitute pro tempore. It is based on the best Armenian ms., viz. Erevan, 

Matenadaran 1500 penned by Mxit’ar of Ayrivank’ in 1282/83. It represents a line of tradition by 

itself while all other mss. hark back to a hyparchetype which is notably inferior. M. 1500 is printed 

in full and supplemented and corrected by a choice of 12 other mss. from 1269 to 1626. 

AN EDITIO MINOR OF THE ARMENIAN VERSION OF 

THE TESTAMENTS OF THE TWELVE PATRIARCHS 

STONE M.E., HILLEL V. 



• VIII-324 p. 


• ISBN 978-90-429-2224-2 

The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is a much-debated apocryphal work, but it is usually considered 

to be a Christian work of the second century CE, including many, ancient Jewish traditions. 

It is of considerable significance for the history of Judaism and Christianity. The Armenian version, 

associated with the Armenian Bible translation, has long been considered to be a very faithful rendering 

of an early Greek text. The present work is a critical editio minor of this version, based on 11 selected 

manuscripts of a total of over 70. It is provided with an English translation, a commentary and extensive 

indexes, of importance alike to Armenian textual studies and translation practice. This completes 

the series of critical editions of the apocryphal works most closely associated with the biblical corpus 

in Armenian (4 Ezra – Stone, UPATS and Joseph and Aseneth – Burchard, HUAS). These are some 

of the best editions of any Armenian biblical associated texts. 

MAGNALIA DEI. BIBLICAL HISTORY IN EPIC VERSE 

BY GRIGOR MAGISTROS (THE FIRST LITERARY EPIC 

IN MEDIEVAL ARMENIAN) 

Critical Text, with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary 

TERIAN A. 



• XII-193 p. 


• ISBN 978-90-429-2507-6 

Composed by Grigor Magistros, an 11th-century Armenian princely savant and friend of the 

Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX Monomachus (reigned 1042–55), the Magnalia Dei is a summation 

of the Bible in epic verse. Written on one of the author’s visits to Constantinople, it resulted 

from an encounter there with a Moslem intellectual by the name of Manazi — none other than Abu 

Nasr al-Manazi, vizier and emissary of the Abbasid Caliphate, theologian and poet, who frequently 

visited Constantinople in quest of Greek scientific manuscripts. During their discussion on the Bible 

and the Qur’an, a stock Islamic argument emerged: that the Qur’an is superior to the Christian 

Scriptures on account of its beautiful, inimitable verse. The epic is Magistros’s response. The Magnalia 

Dei is the earliest literary epic in medieval Armenian, and one of the most informative compositions 

within the genre of biblically inspired verse narratives in Christian literature. 



EUSÉBE D’ÉMESÈ. COMMENTAIRE DE LA GENÈSE 

Texte arménien de l’édition de Venise (1980), fragments grecs et syriaques, avec traductions 

PETIT F., VAN ROMPAY L., WEITENBERG J.J.S. 

• 2011 – Traditio Exegetica Graeca 15 

• XL-442 p. 

• 94 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2313-3 

Du Commentaire original d’Eusèbe d’Émèse sur la Genèse, rédigé en grec vers le milieu du IVe siècle, 

seuls des fragments sont connus, incorporés dans la Chaîne exégétique grecque et dans l’Épitomé de 

Procope de Gaza. Il existe toutefois une ancienne traduction arménienne complète (éd. V. Hovhannessian, 

1980). À cette documentation s’ajoutent des fragments syriaques conservés dans le Commentaire 

d’Iso’dad de Merv (IXe siècle). 

Le présent volume regroupe les quatre rameaux de la tradition. Du Commentaire arménien, dont le 

texte est reproduit en entier, on trouve ici la première traduction dans une langue moderne. Les fragments 

grecs (dont ceux de Procope édités ici pour la première fois) et syriaques sont également accompagnés 

de traductions françaises annotées. Le volume permet, dès lors, pour la première fois une vue 

d’ensemble de ce commentaire dont l’importance consiste en son originalité et en sa position intermédiaire 

entre l’ancienne exégèse syriaque et l’exégèse grecque antiochienne de la fin du IVe et du Ve siècle. 

ÉGLISES EN DIALOGUE: ARMÉNIENS ET BYZANTINS 

DANS LA SECONDE MOITIÉ DU XII E SIÈCLE 

AUGÉ I. 



• XXX-317p. 

• 75 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2357-7 

Dans les années 1165-1178, les autorités religieuses et politiques byzantines et arméniennes entrent 

en contact de manière soutenue, dans le but de trouver un accord entre les deux Églises. De nombreuses 

missives sont alors échangées, missives qui ont été conservées pour partie en langue arménienne 

et compilées dans un recueil par Nerses Lambronac’i. Le présent ouvrage est une traduction 

commentée de ces textes, dix-neuf lettres au total, qui envisagent les questions théologiques débattues, 

mais apportent également des informations importantes sur le plan historique. À cet élément central 

s’ajoutent, en annexes, les traductions de trois documents importants pour l’étude de la controverse 

arméno-byzantine au XIIe siècle, un opuscule de Nerses Lambronac'i, le récit anonyme de la visite de 

ce même Nerses à Constantinople en 1197, et une Vie du catholicos Nerses Snorhali, l’un des principaux 

protagonistes, avec l’empereur Manuel Comnène, du rapprochement religieux arméno-grec. 

INTERREGNUM 

Introduction to a Study on the Formation of Armenian Identity (ca 600-750) 

GARSOÏAN N. 




• ISBN 978-90-429-2516-8 

Forty-three Syriac and Garshuni manuscripts owned by the Iraqi Department of Antiquities and 

Heritage are here catalogued and described in great detail. The manuscripts cover major literary genres 

known to Syriac literature, each of which is discussed in a lengthy introduction with an up-to-date 

bibliography. To illustrate the contents and styles of the manuscripts, short texts extracted from most 

of them are given in Syriac and Garshuni with translations in English. Some manuscripts are liturgical 

and were once the property of Melkite, Syriac Orthodox, Syriac Catholic, and Assyrian churches. 

Other manuscripts are spiritual and theological compendiums, biblical lectionaries and psalms, Melkite 

pastoral letters dealing with Roman Catholic devotional practices, charms and popular medicine, and 

sogyata and durikyata poems. A unique manuscript consists of a Kurdish (Kurmanji) grammar in Syriac 

authored by a 19th century Chaldean monk living in the Monastery of Rabban Hormizd in northern 

Iraq. The codices are dated between the 16th and the 19th centuries, though there is one dated to the 

14th century, and they were produced in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and central and eastern Anatolia. 


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THE SYRIAC “VITA” TRADITION OF 

EPHREM THE SYRIAN 

Critical Edition of the Syriac Text (T) and English Translation (V) 

AMAR J.P. 


Christianorum Orientalium 

629 (T) & 630 (V) 

• XXIV-104 p. & XL-118 p. 

• 70 EURO (T) & 65 EURO (V) 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2331-7 (T) & 

ISBN 978-90-429-2332-4 (V) 

This monograph is a synoptic presentation of the texts of all the recensions of the Syriac Life of 

Ephrem. Working from the manuscript sources, the author corrects previously published recensions 

of the Life and presents heretofore unpublished recensions. A critical introductory study traces the Life 

to its sources among Byzantine ecclesiastical writers who were promoters of the monastic ideal and 

who seized upon the reputation of Ephrem in native Syriac tradition to authorize a way of life he 

never practiced. By anachronistically associating Ephrem with leading figures in the movement, such 

as Pisoes and Basil the Great, these authors, aided by later generations of Syriac-speaking churchmen, 

sought to bring Ephrem’s poetic expression of the truths of the faith within the canonical authority 

of the Byzantine imperial church. 

MUNDUS PRIMUS 

Die Geschichte der Welt und des Menschen von Adam bis Noach im Genesiskommentar 

Ephräms des Syrers 

KREMER T. 




• ISBN 978-90-429-2566-3 

Albeit famous as a composer of liturgical hymns, the exegetical works of Ephrem the Syrian are almost 

unknown. This monograph deals with Ephrem’s commentary on Genesis in which he provides a specific 

explanation of the biblical primordial history. His exegesis proves to be apologetic (refuting the 

positions of his main opponents Marcion, Bardaisan and Mani), ascetic and critical towards allegorical 

interpretations of an allusive type. By applying principles of a complex typology, he interprets the primordial 

events by relating them to particular contexts (cosmology, anthropology, ethics and eschatology). 

Thus he assumes that Gen 1:1–9:17 describes the contours of a first world (mundus primus), 

which is in a paradigmatic way a typological pre-image of the second world (mundus secundus) in which 

we live. According to Ephrem, with the landing of the Ark and God’s covenant with Noah, the history 

undergoes its decisive turning point. This study may prove both Ephrem’s close proximity to rabbinic 

exegesis and his great originality. As a starting point for a specific Syriac interpretation tradition of the 

first book of the Bible Ephrem’s commentary is highly interesting for patristic exegesis and inspiring 

for the theological interpretation of the primordial history and a lively dialogue with modern exegesis. 

ISACCO DI NINIVE. TERZA COLLEZIONE 

Critical Edition of the Syriac Text (T) and Italian Translation (V) 

CHIALA S. 



637 (T) & 638 (V) 

• XXIV-104 p. & XL-118 p. 


• ISBN 978-90-429-2514-4 (T) & 

ISBN 978-90-429-2515-1 (V) 

Un manoscritto unico, copiato intorno al 1900 nella regione di Urmia (attuale Iran), ci ha restituito 

una collezione di discorsi di Isacco di Ninive fino ad ora sconosciuta. Le fonti antiche informano circa 

l’esistenza di più collezioni di suoi discorsi, ma sino a qualche decennio fa solo la Prima collezione era 

nota. Negli anni ottanta del secolo scorso è stata ritrovata la Seconda collezione, in seguito parzialmente 

edita, ed ora con quest’opera di fornisce la Terza collezione. 

Il manoscritto di Teheran, che resta unico per l’insieme dei discorsi, ha consentito l’individuazione di 

altri testimoni parziali, in siriaco e in arabo, che sono stati così collazionati con il manoscritto principale. 

Qui si fornisce dunque l’edizione critica dell’insieme, che tiene conto di tutti i testimoni siriaci 

e, per alcuni passi, anche della versione araba. Il secondo volume contiene invece la traduzione dei 

testi, corredata di un apparato di note volto in primo luogo a mettere in luce i paralleli lessicali e 

concettuali con le altre due collezioni isacchiane. 



TIMOTHEOS I., OSTSYRISCHER PATRIARCH: 

DISPUTATION MIT DEM KALIFEN AL-MAHDI 

Kritische Edition (T) und deutsche Übersetzung (V) 

HEIMGARTNER M. 



631 & 632 (V) 

• XX-165 p. & LXVI-123 p. 

• 70 EURO (T) & 65 EURO (V) 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2336-2 (T) & 

ISBN 978-90-429-2337-9 (V) 

Der Bericht des ostsyrischen Patriarchen Timotheos über eine Disputation mit dem Kalifen al-Mahdi 

(um 782/783 geschrieben) ist einer der ersten grossen Texte der christlich-muslimischen Kontroversliteratur. 

Zentralthemen der scharfsinnigen und doch fairen Diskussion sind die Trinitätslehre, die 

Christologie, die Stellung Mohammeds und die Frage nach einer Kontinuität der Heilsgeschichte 

zwischen Christentum und Islam. Dabei werden Beispiele christlicher Koranexegese und muslimischer 

Bibelauslegung diskutiert. Erkennbar sind Bezüge zur islamischen Theologie der frühen ‘Abbasidenzeit 

wie auch zur beginnenden Rezeption der aristotelischen Philosophie in der islamischen Welt. In der 

sogenannten Perlenparabel über die Unerkennbarkeit der wahren Religion wird Lessings Ringparabel 

vorausgenommen. Der syrische Text, bereits 1928 von Alphonse Mingana als Faksimile einer Handschrift 

publiziert, erscheint hier erstmals in kritischer Edition, die auch die älteste erhaltene Handschrift 

berücksichtigt. Die deutsche Übersetzung mit Anmerkungen reflektiert Probleme in der Textüberlieferung. 

CHRÉTIENS EN TERRE D’IRAN III: VITA E STUDI DI 

TIMOTEO I, PATRIARCA CRISTIANO DI BAGHDAD 

Ricerche sull’ epistolario e sulle fonti contigue 

BERTI V. 

• 2009 – Cahiers de Studia Iranica 41 

• 395 p. 

• 60 EURO 

• ISBN 978-2-910640-27-9 

The period coinciding with the education and with the first part of the patriarchate of Timothy I, 

more or less corresponding with the second half of the 8th century, is one of the best observation 

points for evaluating the cultural reorganisation of the ancient Oriental Christian communities after 

the Muslim conquest, in particular in consequence of the establishment of the Abbasid Caliphate. The 

case studied here refers in particular to the life of the Church of the East, or East-Syrian Church, a 

vast network with a liturgical and literary tradition in aramaic language, spread along the Asian commercial 

routes. This study traces a pathway that starts with the school reform of Babai the Musician 

in Northern Iraq at the beginning of the 8th century, going through the vicissitudes of the Church 

during the Abbasid Revolution, the history of the School of Mar Abraham and Mar Gabriel, where 

Timothy received his education, leading to an analysis of the structure of the teachings received, based 

on the patriarch’s intellectual output, with the aim of identifying the characteristics of the cultural 

policy he promoted within the Church: a decisive moment of the history of Christianity in the Middle 

East and, more in general, in the history of Islamic-Christian relations. 

CHRÉTIENS EN TERRE D’IRAN IV: ITINÉRAIRES MIS- 

SIONNAIRES: ÉCHANGES ET IDENTITÉS 

JULLIEN C. (ed.) 

Peter Burns, «Hagiographia satis legendaria. Einige Beobachtungen zum Mar Behnam-Martyrium 

(BHO 177)»; Florence Jullien, «Stratégies du monachisme missionnaire en Iran»; Vittorio Berti, 

«Idéologie et politique missionnaire de Timothée Ier, patriarche syro-oriental (780-823)»; Marco 

Bias, «Rendre à César pour rencontrer Dieu. La mission politico-religieuse de l’évêque Israyel chez les 

Honk’»; Alexander M. Schilling, «Autour des mages arabisés. La vie de Zoroastre selon Girgis ibn 

al-’Amid al-Makin»; Angelo Michele Piemontese, «La traduction persane de l’évangile par Leopoldo 

Sebastiani». 

• 2011 – Cahiers de Studia Iranica 44 

• 235 p. 

• 45 EURO 

• ISBN 978-2-910640-30-9 


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RELIGIOUS POETRY IN VERNACULAR SYRIAC FROM 

NORTHERN IRAQ (17 TH -20 TH CENTURIES): AN ANTHOLOGY 

Critical Edition of the Syriac Text (T) and English Translation (V) 

MENGOZZI A. 



627 (T) & 628 (V) 

• XX-129 p. & XXIV-163 p. 

• 65 EURO (T) & 60 EURO (V) 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2276-1 (T) & 

ISBN 978-90-429-2277-8 (V) 

The present publication offers the reader a rich anthology and the most complete historical sketch of 

the dorektha genre, surveying published and unpublished works by Chaldean and Assyrian authors. 

Texts dating from 1607/08 to 1980 AD are critically edited and translated into English, with linguistic, 

philological and literary comments: On Repentance by Hormizd of Alqosh (17th cent.); the poetic 

diptych On the Torments of Hell and On the Delights of the Kingdom by Damynanos of Alqosh, which 

shows the author’s indebtedness to Italian Baroque sermons; On a Famine in the Year 1898 by the 

poetess Anne of Telkepe; the fascinating and living story of the Hermit Barmalka by Joseph ‘Abbaya 

of Alqosh; On an Attack by the Mongols at Karamlish, in which Thomas Hanna of Karamlish elaborates 

on classical sources such as Gewargis Warda and Barhebreus; the touching and beautiful elegy On Exile 

by Yohannan Cholagh, who deals with the Christian emigration from Iraq, a contemporary social 

problem that is even more pressing today than in 1980, when the poem first appeared in Qala Suryaya. 

THE SYRIAC RENAISSANCE 

TEULE H.G.B., FOTESCU TAUWINKL C., TER HAAR ROMENY R.B., 

VAN GINKEL J.J. (eds.) 

• 2010 – Eastern Christian Studies 9 

• XII-408 p. 

• 58 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2258-7 

The Syriac Renaissance (11th-13th cent.) is a period which has received relatively little attention as 

such. Traditionally, the focus of attention has been on the literary production of individual authors 

as Barhebraeus or ‘Abdiso’ bar Brikha, without trying to study them in relation with other contemporary 

authors or within the context of the general theological, cultural and artistic orientations of 

this period. For this reason, the aim of the book is: 

– To complete the picture of this presumed Renaissance by presenting the works of less known 

authors such as Khamis Bar Qardahe, Ghiwarghis Warda, Michael Badoqa, Abu Ghalib and 

Dioscorus d-Gozarto. 

– To discuss the works of better known authors such as Michael the Syrian, Barhebraeus and ‘Abdiso’ 

bar Brikha from the intercultural, interreligious and interconfessional perspectives of this period. 

– To investigate whether these perspectives can also be found in the field of biblical interpretation, 

manuscript production, church construction, etc. 

– To draw the attention to comparable developments among the Copts and the Armenians. 

The work is preceded by a general introduction to the renaissance. 

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SYRIAC ASCETIC AND 

MYSTICAL LITERATURE 

KESSEL G., PINGGÉRA K. 


• X-224 p. 

• 48 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2457-4 

This book offers a complete bibliographical presentation of Syriac authors and texts in the domain of 

Syriac asceticism and mysticism. It also includes Greek texts that were translated into Syriac and 

profoundly influenced the spiritual life of Christians in the Near and Middle East. Among the Syrian 

Churches ascetic and mystical literature was flourishing over the centuries and witnesses the intensity 

of their religious life. It also enriched the spirituality of other Christian traditions. Therefore, the 

bibliography also indicates Medieval translations of Syriac texts into other languages. The list of 

authors and texts ranges from Ps.-Clement of Rome and Antony the Great to the Chaldean Patriarch 

Joseph II (1696-1713/4). Editions (if available), translations and secondary literature are arranged in 

chronological order. Additionally, subject sections present surveys and introductions to the topic as 

well as literature about Syriac proto-monasticism, monastic anthologies, mystical experience and 

Messalianism in the Syriac tradition. The introduction of the book highlights the importance and 

originality of the Syriac ascetic and mystical literature. 



CATALOGUE OF SYRIAC AND GARSHUNI MANUSCRIPTS 

Manuscripts owned by the Iraqi Department of Antiquities and Heritage 

HARRAK A. 




• ISBN 978-90-429-2521-2 

Armenian mediaeval historians, who have concentrated primarily on political high points, have tended 

to dismiss the more than four centuries dividing the two royal epochs of the Arsacids (ending, A.D. 

428) and the Bagratids (inaugurated with the coronation of Asot I, A.D. 884), as a “Dark Age”. The 

intention of the present study, on the contrary, is to attempt the examination of a portion of the 

“Interregnum” (600-750) as a period of religious synthesis and social renewal, as well as of intellectual 

and particularly artistic effervescence. In such an interpretation, the “Interregnum”, despite the unfavourable 

nature of its exterior and interior political setting, becomes the hypothetical locus during 

which, the identity of Armenia seems to have been forged, as that of a nation existing outside the 

framework of a political state. Consequently, the purpose of the present investigation is to eschew a 

political approach, which has proved at best episodic and fragmentary, in order to seek, in a period 

devoid of a centralized state, a different explanation for the continuous survival of “Armenia”, in spite 

of the numerous vicissitudes of its tumultuous history. 

PALIMPSESTES ET ÉDITIONS DE TEXTES: 

LES TEXTES LITTÉRAIRES 

Actes du colloque tenu à Louvain-la-Neuve (septembre 2003) 

SOMERS V. (ed.) 

• 2009 – Publications de l’Institut 

Orientaliste de Louvain 56 

• IV-340 p. 

• 80 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-1981-5 

Les contributions réunies dans cette publication ont été présentées au colloque organisé les 5 et 6 septembre 

2003 à l’Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, dans le cadre de la participation 

de l’Institut orientaliste (et plus particulièrement du Centre d’études sur Grégoire de Nazianze) au projet 

international Rinascimento Virtuale. Digitale Palimpsestforschung. Rediscovering written records of a hidden 

European cultural heritage. Ce projet, mis en place sous la direction du Prof. D. Harlfinger (Université 

de Hambourg), réunit depuis 2001 des spécialistes de l’Europe entière dans le but de faire progresser 

l’étude de textes mal connus, parce que souvent difficiles ou impossibles à lire à l’oeil nu, sur lesquels on 

a jugé bon d’en copier d’autres. Essentiellement composé d’hellénistes de diverses spécialités (philologues 

classiques, byzantinistes, paléographes, codicologues, etc.), Rinascimento Virtuale s’est construit 

autour des manuscrits palimpsestes grecs. Son premier objectif est d’ailleurs d’arriver au recensement 

exhaustif de ce type de témoins conservés dans les différentes bibliothèques européennes. 

PTOLEMAIOU PROCHEIROI KANONES 

PTOLEMY’S HANDY TABLES – LES «TABLES FACILES» DE PTOLÉMÉE 

Volume 1a: Tables A1-A2. Introduction, Édition critique 

Volume 1b: Tables A1-A2. Transcription and Commentary 

TIHON A., MERCIER R. 

• 2011 – Publications de l’Institut 

Orientaliste de Louvain 59A & B 

• IV-202 p.; IV-213 p. 


• ISBN 978-90-429-2429-1 (59A) 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2436-9 (59B) 

The Handy Tables of Ptolemy have exercised, in the history of ancient astronomy, an influence at 

least equal to that of the Mathematical Syntaxis (Almagest). The present work constitutes the first 

volume of a critical edition of the astronomical tables. Volume PIOL 59a includes first of all a long 

introduction explaining the history of these tables and the principles followed in the edition. This 

includes the tables of right and oblique ascension (A1-A2), as well as the tables of ascensions for the 

climate of Byzantium (B1). The edition is followed by a critical apparatus, which includes also several 

papyri and a fragment of a palimpsest from Vat.syr. 623. Volume PIOL 59b is devoted to the transcription 

of the tables and a commentary. The transcription is accompanied by an apparatus which 

provides where necessary the correctly calculated entry. The commentary provides a study of the 

chronological background of the Era of Philip, a mathematical commentary on the tables of ascension 

(including the equation of time), and in a series appendices a review of Syriac and Arabic texts bearing 

on the Handy Tables. 


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IDENTITY PUZZLES 

Medieval Christian Art in Syria and Lebanon 

IMMERZEEL M. 

• 2009 – Orientalia Lovaniensia 

Analecta 184 

• VIII-325 p. 

• 80 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2149-8 

Numerous churches decorated with medieval wall paintings can be found in Lebanon and Syria, 

especially in the former Crusader County of Tripoli and the Muslim-controlled Damascus area. In 

particular the first half of the thirteenth century turned out to be a period of intensive artistic activities. 

This book addresses the matter of identity formation in the decoration of Maronite, Melkite and 

Syrian Orthodox churches during this artistic ‘Syrian Renaissance’, and explores the differences and 

similarities between the arts of these communities. Attention is given to the interaction between Latins 

and local Christians, the attribution of works of art to local and Byzantine artists, and the relationship 

with Islamic art. Furthermore, recent discoveries have revealed that indigenous painters and workshops 

involved in the embellishment of churches also produced icons which were formerly attributed 

to Latin artists, thus adding a new dimension to the research on the production of Christian art in 

the Middle East during the Crusader era. 

IDENTITY AND CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM INTERACTION 

Medieval Art of the Syrian Orthodox from the Mosul Area 

SNELDERS B. 


Analecta 198 

• XII-591 p. 

• 85 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2386-7 

As elsewhere in the Middle East, the Mosul area witnessed a flourishing of Christian art during the 

thirteenth century. Discussing both art-historical and written sources, this book examines the role of 

art in expressing the identity of Mosul’s Syrian Orthodox community, and explores the relationship 

between Christian and Islamic art. Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East during the medieval 

period have often been seen in terms of conflict and violent opposition, a presumed dichotomy which 

focuses almost exclusively on theological differences and fails to take account of the social complexities 

of daily life. The present study challenges these simplistic views of division along religious lines, seeing 

the boundaries between the Christian and Muslim communities as areas of intermingling rather than 

separation. A detailed comparative analysis between Christian and Islamic art provides a far more 

nuanced picture of extensive cultural interaction, in which the Christians were fully integrated into 

their environment while still retaining their own exclusive religious and communal identity. 

BYZANTINE HOLY IMAGES – TRANSCENDENCE AND 

IMMANENCE 

The Theological Background of the Iconography and Aesthetics of the Chora Church 

KARAHAN A. 


Analecta 176 

• X-355 p. 

• 75 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2080-4 

Patristic thinking is the bedrock of the uniformity of Byzantine culture, legitimization of image use in 

the Eastern Church, as well as Byzantine aesthetics, Karahan argues. The synergy in Late Byzantine 

holy images of “meta-images” for God’s inexplicability, and elaborated dramatized narration for God’s 

immanence epitomize orthodox tradition in general, and in particular fourth-century Cappadocian 

modes and models of thought on Christology, trinitarian theology and the Theotokos. The incomprehensible, 

uncircumscribed invisible Trinity, and the comprehensible God-man born of the Theotokos, 

circumscribed in flesh but not in divinity is a one-God reality of transcendent ontology and actions in 

the world of the two-natured image of God, Christ. Explanations in words or in images cannot ignore 

these orthodox axioms without turning into false images or heretic idols. This book explores why and 

how the idiosyncratic use of color, form, kinetics, light, and brilliance in Late Byzantine aesthetics 

concur with the tradition of the Fathers. How narration in image as well as literature is orthodoxos, 

‘of right belief, orthodox’. 



BIBEL, BYZANZ UND CHRISTLICHER ORIENT 

Festschrift für Stephen Gerö zum 65. Geburtstag 

BUMAZHNOV D., GRYPEOU E., SAILORS T.B., TOEPEL A. (eds.) 


Analecta 187 


• 96 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2177-1 

Bibel, Byzanz und Christlicher Orient ist eine Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Stephen 

Gerö, emiritierter Inhaber der Professur für das Fach “Sprachen und Kulturen des Christlichen 

Orients” an der Universität Tübingen. Die Festschrift vereinigt 36 wissenschaftliche Beiträge von 

Kollegen und Schülern des Jubilars, die unter den Themenkomplexen “Frühes Christentum”, 

“Ägypten und Nubien”, “Syrisches Christentum”, “Armenien, Georgien und Zentralasien”, “Byzanz” 

und “Arabische Welt” zusammengefasst werden. Die Spannweite der Themen reicht von der Soziologie 

des Neuen Testaments bis zur Stadtentwicklung Aleppos im 19. Jahrhundert und spiegelt damit das 

reiche Interessenspektrum des Gefeierten. Den thematischen Schwerpunkt der Beiträge bildet jedoch 

die Kirchen- und Christentumsgeschichte des Nahen Ostens unter Einschluß der angrenzenden 

Gebiete in Byzanz, Nubien und Zentralasien. Dem wissenschaftlichen Teil beigegeben ist eine vollständige 

Bibliographie von Stephen Gerö, sowie ein Vorwort der Herausgeber mit einer biographischen 

Skizze seines persönlichen und wissenschaftlichen Lebensweges. 

HERETICS AND HERESIES IN THE ANCIENT CHURCH 

AND IN EASTERN CHRISTIANITY 

Studies in Honour of Adelbert Davids 

VERHEYDEN J., TEULE H.G.B. (eds.) 


• X-395 p. 

• 59 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2486-4 

This volume in honour of Adelbert Davids, opens with a biographical note (by P. Nissen) and contains 

eighteen essays by friends and colleagues of the honoree that all deal with one or another aspect of the 

crucial question of how the Early Church and the Eastern Church have defined heresy and orthodoxy. 

The contributors are B. Dehandschutter (heresy and the notion of tradition), A. Hilhorst (‘heretical’ 

martyrs), A. van den Hoek (Heracleon’s hermeneutics), F. Ledegang (the Ophites), J. van Amersfoort 

(the Ebionites), K. Demoen (fourth-century thelogy on the notion of heresy), J. Leemans (Gregory of 

Nyssa on orthodoxy and heresy), J. Verheyden (Epiphanius’ Panarion), D. Müller (persecution of heretics 

under Justinian), P. Van Deun (editio princeps of tractate CPG 7697,25 by Maximus the 

Confessor), A.A.R. Bastiaensen (the notion of perfidus/perfidia), M. Parmentier (editio princeps of CPL 

560, a guideline against heretics), G. Bartelink (Cassianus’s De incarnatione), D.W. Winkler (Nestorian 

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in the Eastern Churches), H. Teule (Barhebraeus), F.B. Poljakow (traces of gnosticising thought currents 

in early twentieth-century Russia), B. Groen (dealing with anti-judaism in Byzantine liturgy today). 

MARTYRDOM AND PERSECUTION IN 

LATE ANTIQUE CHRISTIANITY 

Festschrift Boudewijn Dehandschutter 

LEEMANS J. (ed.) 



• XXXIV-430 p. 

• 78 EURO 

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This volume in honour of Professor Boudewijn Dehandschutter collects twenty contributions on persecution 

and martyrdom in Late Antique Christianity. Chronologically, the articles by leading scholars in 

the field range from New Testament writings to the Byzantine period. The volume contains editions 

(Metrophanes of Smyrna), translations (Severus of Antioch), thematic studies (Socrates and the martyrs; 

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church of Qausiyeh). Besides well-known authors and texts (Origen, Augustine, Gregory the Great) also 

less-known texts are brought to the fore (Coptic martyr texts; a Slavonic version of the Martyrium 

Polycarpi). Contributions by P. Allen, G. Bartelink, T. Baumeister, J. den Boeft & J. Bremmer, G. Dunn, 

A. Dupont, A. Hilhorst, T. Khomych, J. Leemans, W. Mayer, B. Neil, T. Nicklas, L. Perendy, G. Roskam, 

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COPTIC IN 20 LESSONS 

Introduction to Sahidic Coptic With Exercises & Vocabularies 

LAYTON B. 

Coptic in 20 Lessons is written by the author of the most authoritative reference grammar of the Coptic 

language, and is based on decades of pedagogical experience. In easy steps and simple explanations, it 

teaches the patterns and syntax of Sahidic Coptic, along with the most useful vocabulary. Drills, compositions, 

and translation exercises enable the student to gain fluency. All words that occur more than 

fifty times in the Sahidic New Testament are introduced lesson by lesson in vocabulary lists, which are 

arranged by semantic field and accompanied by both Greek equivalents and English glosses. The book 

concludes with three chapters of the Gospel of Mark, in which all new vocabulary is glossed in footnotes. 

Coptic in 20 Lessons is the ideal resource for use in the classroom or for teaching oneself Coptic. 

• 2007 

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COPTIC PARADIGMS 

A Summary of Sahidic Coptic Morphology 

STERLING G.E. 

• 2008 

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• 2004 

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Facility in reading an ancient language requires several competencies: control of the morphology, a 

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The work was developed for a course in Coptic at the University of Notre Dame. It is offered in this 

venue with the hope that it will help students elsewhere. 

COPTIC GNOSTIC CHRESTOMATHY 

A Selection of Coptic Texts with Grammatical Analysis and Glossary 

LAYTON B. 

Layton’s Coptic Gnostic Chrestomathy is an essential tool for scholars and students of the Gnostic 

corpus. This useful and accurate text edition contains a large, representative selection of works in 

Coptic, ranging from Sethian Gnostic classics such as the “Apocryphon of John” to Valentinian works 

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EUGNOSTE. LETTRE SUR LE DIEU TRANSCENDANT 

(NH III, 3 ET V, 1). COMMENTAIRE 

PASQUIER A. 

• 2010 – Bibliothèque Copte de 

Nag Hammadi Section «Textes» 33 

• XXVI-290 p. 

• 70 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2138-2 

Découvert dans un manuscrit copte du IV e siècle de notre ère, le texte intitulé Eugnoste est sans doute 

plus ancien. Il se caractérise par l’importance accordée au mythe de l’Homme primordial qui est la 

forme manifestée du Dieu suprême. Il touche la question, chaudement débattue depuis l’École d’Histoire 

des Religions en Allemagne, des liens entre christianisme et gnosticisme, à propos du mythe de 

l’Homme céleste ou du Rédempteur-racheté. Le milieu de production pourrait être Alexandrie. Proche 

d’un judaïsme platonisant, tel qu’on le trouve chez Philon d’Alexandrie, il enseigne un christianisme 

susceptible de plaire et d’attirer ce genre de milieu. 

Comme Eugnoste a fait l’objet de plusieurs réécritures, sont analysées dans ce volume la version du 

codex III de Nag Hammadi (NH III, 3) ainsi que celle du codex V (NH V, 1). Un chapitre est également 

consacré à la doctrine baptismale qui se trouve dans une autre réécriture, celle de la Sagesse de 

Jésus-Christ (BG, 3; NH III, 4). 

L’INTERPRÉTATION DE LA GNOSE (NH XI, 1) 

FUNK W.-P., PAINCHAUD L., THOMASSEN E. 

• 2010 – Bibliothèque Copte de 


• XVI-186 p. 

• 60 EURO 

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On s’est plu à imaginer les auteurs gnostiques comme des solitaires misanthropes, et leurs œuvres 

comme le résultat d’un prurit d’écrire causé par leur haine du monde et des hommes. L’Interprétation 

de la gnose révèle un auteur soucieux de la vie d’une communauté aux prises avec des divisions nées, 

du moins à ses yeux, de la jalousie. Dans le but de remédier à cette situation, il cherche à persuader 

son destinataire de la nécessité de supporter les épreuves comme le Christ crucifié l’a fait. Il lui propose 

comme modèle à imiter la patience de celui-ci devant le mépris et les moqueries dont il a été l’objet, 

lui explique que les divisions dans la communauté sont l’œuvre des archontes mauvais. Il reprend 

l’image paulinienne de l’Église corps du Christ et la tradition gréco-romaine des discours de réconciliation, 

utilisant cette image pour exhorter son destinataire, peut-être une femme si l’on en juge par 

l’emploi d’exemples mettant en scène des figures féminines dans la première partie de l’œuvre, à se 

satisfaire de la place qui est la sienne dans la communauté. L’Interprétation de la gnose, le commentaire 

le montre, est vraisemblablement le produit d’un milieu valentinien ou influencé par le valentinisme. 

Son caractère gnostique, dont le titre à lui seul ne constitue pas une preuve, est donc indéniable. 

LE LIVRE DES SECRETS DE JEAN. RÉCENSION BRÈVE 

(NH III, 1 ET BG, 2) 

FUNK W.-P., BARC B. 

• 2011 – Bibliothèque Copte de 


• X-336 p. 


• ISBN 978-90-429-2321-8 

Dans le Livre des secrets de Jean nous a été conservée la version la plus complète du mythe auquel se 

référaient les gnostiques qui faisaient de Seth, troisième fils d’Adam, leur ancêtre. L’auteur y présente 

une synthèse de l’histoire universelle. On assiste d’abord à la constitution d’un modèle céleste conçu à 

partir d’une Première Pensée du Grand Esprit invisible, Pensée qui se multiplie jusqu’à produire un 

modèle parfait constitué de vingt-deux éons, dont le dernier est Sophia, la Sagesse. Mais celle-ci donnera 

naissance à un 23e éon, celui de l’Archonte. Exclu du modèle mais en gardant le souvenir, l’Archonte 

en construira une contrefaçon, notre monde, dans lequel il manifestera cette part de connaissance 

dont il a dépossédé sa Mère. Toute l’histoire de l’humanité, de la création d’Adam au retour 

annoncé de Seth à la fin des temps, doit alors être interprétée comme une guerre de libération de cette 

connaissance prisonnière, une guerre dont les hommes, partagés en deux camps, seraient à la fois les 

victimes et les acteurs. Au moment où l’auteur écrit, rien n’est joué, la domination de l’Archonte est 

encore universelle, mais grâce à la révélation du Livre des secrets, l’humanité dispose enfin de cette 

connaissance qui permettra à ceux qui appartiennent à la semence de Seth de trouver le chemin du 

retour vers ce monde intelligible auquel ils appartiennent. 


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KOPTISCHE LITURGISCHE MELODIEN 

Die Relation zwischen Text und Musik in der koptischen Psalmodia 

KUHN M. 


Analecta 197 

• XII-621 p. 


• ISBN 978-90-429-2395-9 

Der vorliegende Band ist eine Arbeit zu musikalischen Aspekten der Koptischen Liturgie, die Musik 

der christlichen Gemeinschaft Ägyptens. Die Musik einer der ältesten christlichen Kulturen wird in 

der koptologischen sowie musikologischen Literatur nur wenig erwähnt und oft sogar ganz weggelassen. 

Aus den reichhaltigen Melodien der koptischen liturgischen Musik wurden die Melodien der 

Psalmodia gewählt zu Analysen und musikalischen Transkriptionen. Die verschiedenen kirchlichen 

Festtage kennzeichnen sich durch verschiedene Melodien auf denselben Texten. Die Arbeit ist dreiteilig 

und besteht im ersten Teil aus einer kurzen Übersicht über die koptische Musikgeschichte, einer 

Einführung in das nächtlichen Ritual Psalmodia mit ihren verschiedenen Aufführungen, aus Gesprächen 

mit Teilnehmern an dem Ritual Psalmodia, einer Literaturübersicht und Notationsbeispielen zeitgenössischer 

Ausführenden. Der zweite Teil enthält die Analysen der verschiedenen Festtagsmelodien, 

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verglichen. Im dritten Teil befinden sich die Transkriptionen der analysierten Melodien in westlicher 

Musiknotation. Auf einer dazu gefügten CD ist eine Auswahl der Gesänge zu hören, wobei historische 

Aufnahmen abgewechselt werden mit Aufnahmen während der Zeremonien oder mit Tonbändern, 

die Kantoren für ihre Studenten zu Studienzwecken aufgenommen haben. 

A HISTORY OF THE FIRST ESIFANOSITE MONKS 

Critical Edition of the Ethiopic Text (T) and English Translation (V) 

GETATSHEW HAILE 



635 (T) & 636 (V) 


• ISBN 978-90-429-2512-0 (T) & 

ISBN 978-90-429-2513-7 (V) 

In the fifteenth century, a fearless Abba Es†ifanos and his followers openly criticized the monastic leaders 

of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church for what the monks saw as a gross disregard of monastic rules 

in the monastic leaders’ relationship with political leaders. These monks of the Monastery of 

Gundagunde, in the province of T¢gray, spoke out against the practice of having the monarch appoint 

abbots to head the large monasteries. Further, they dismissed as unchristian all religious practices that 

were not prescribed in, or proscribed by, the Eighty-One Canonical Scriptures of the Church. Most of 

all, they refused to bow to anything or anybody other than the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, 

including the king. Such defiance in a theocratic polity, in which the monarch was the head of the 

Church and State, was an extremely dangerous posture. Consequently, Abba Es†ifanos and his followers 

suffered unspeakable martyrdom. 

Vol. 635 tells the amazing story of these monks as they themselves recorded it in G¢‘¢z, the liturgical 

language of the Church. Vol. 636 is its English version. It is woth noting that although the narrative 

is hagiographical, the pertinent facts contained in the text are independently verifiable. 

LA VERSION ÉTHIOPIENNE DE BARLAAM ET JOSAPHAT 

(Baralâm wayewâsef) 

COLIN G. 

• 2008 

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• 30 EURO 

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Le livre de Barlaam et Josaphat fut probablement le «roman» le plus lu au cours du Moyen Âge. Le 

noyau du récit est constitué par l’enfance du Bouddha qui, peu à peu, se détache de la vie et des biens 

du siècle pour embrasser la solitude monastique. Dans ce cheminement, Josaphat (une déformation 

du mot Bouddha) est guidé par Barlaam, un ascète hindou ultérieurement devenu ermite chrétien. 

L’histoire du texte est remarquable: le canevas général, tiré d’une Vie légendaire du personnage écrite 

en sanscrit, fut traduit en pehlvi puis, à la conquête musulmane, en arabe. Il passe bientôt en géorgien 

puis en grec, où il prend sa forme définitive, fortement christianisée; traduit en latin, il est à l’origine 

de toutes les versions occidentales. Une autre traduction, en arabe, servira de modèle au texte éthiopien. 

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ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS 

BRÜNING A., VAN DER ZWEERDE E. (eds.) 


• X-387 p. 


• ISBN 978-90-429-2508-3 

Orthodox theology and the Orthodox Churches had, and continue to have an ambiguous relationship 

towards the concept of Human Rights: principal approval often stands alongside serious criticism. On 

the one hand, especially since the fall of Communism they enjoy religious freedom that forms a central 

element within the framework of Human Rights. On the other hand, the transformation process of the 

1990s and the challenge of pluralism and globalization have all confronted them with aspects of freedom 

that could not but affect their stance towards the Human Rights concept in general. This also means, 

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decades before. These reservations focused on such issues as Church and secular society, Church and 

state, furthermore on the understanding of central terms such as “freedom”, “dignity”, “rights” – central 

also for an Orthodox anthropology, that needs to be reconciled with the partly differing approaches 

behind the Human Rights concept. The chapters of this volume try and explore as much the philosophical 

and theological as the social, historical and practical aspects of this complex relationship. 

PATRISTIC SOURCES AND CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING: 

A FORGOTTEN DIMENSION 

A Textual, Historical, and Rhetorical Analysis of Patristic Source Citations in the Church’s 

Social Documents 

MATZ B.J. 

• 2008 – Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia 59 

• XII-166 p. 

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The fact that over one hundred patristic sources may be found in the documents of Catholic social teaching 

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Yet, this study of every patristic source citation in twenty-one CST documents since the late nineteenth 

century suggests that just such a conclusion should be drawn. The CST documents in this study largely 

ignored the historical and literary contexts of the patristic sources, and this had the concomitant effect of 

limiting appropriation of the fullness of their arguments. In addition, most of the patristic citations do 

not reflect the socio-ethical concerns of the patristic authors themselves. Even when the patristic citations 

supported related, theological themes, usually they were relegated to footnotes. This book is a study of 

the rhetorical, theological and/or pastoral function of each patristic source citation in the CST documents. 

In this respect, each CST document stands on its own as a rhetorical tour de force. For that 

reason, the study concludes with a vision for the “fair use” of patristic sources in future CST documents. 

LE CORPS GLORIEUX 

Phénoménologie pratique de la Philocalie des Pères du désert et des Pères de l’Église 

DEPRAZ N. 

• 2008 – Bibliothèque Philosophique 

de Louvain 74 

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Revisiter l’expérience du corps glorieux à travers le témoignage que transmettent ses Pères et ses ascètes 

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pratique qui y est déployée répond ainsi à deux attendus: d’une part, ouvrir par le biais des catégories 

philosophiques un espace d’intelligibilité à une expérience qui, relevant pour beaucoup du domaine 

intime et privé de la foi, ne saurait dit-on être partagée au delà du cercle des croyants. Or, l’outil descriptif 

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de son intersubjectivité (la communion ecclesiale), bref, de son anthropologie christique. 


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* Important lexicographical data such as synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, distinction 

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such as what kind of direct or indirect objects a given verb takes, what kind of nouns a given adjective 

is used with, and much more information abundantly presented and illustrated with quotes, 

mostly translated. 

* High-frequency lexemes such as prepositions and conjunctions fully analysed. 

* Data on contemporary Koine and Jewish Greek including the New Testament taken into account. 

* Morphological information provided: various tenses of verbs, genitive forms of nouns etc. 

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An indispensable tool for students of the Septuagint, the New Testament, Hellenistic Judaism, and 

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A GREEK ≈ HEBREW/ARAMAIC TWO-WAY INDEX TO 

THE SEPTUAGINT 

MURAOKA T. 

• 2010 

• XII-383 p. 

• 60 EURO 

• ISBN 978-90-429-2356-0 

Part I of this two-way index for the Septuagint shows which Hebrew/Aramaic word or words corresponds 

or correspond to a given Greek word in the Septuagint and how many times such an equation applies. 

Part II enables scholars to see at a glance what Greek words were used by the Septuagint translators to 

translate the Hebrew and Aramaic words occurring in the Old Testament. This is an entirely revised 

version of the author’s Hebrew/Aramaic Index to the Septuagint Keyed to the Hatch-Redpath Concordance 

now out of print. This replaced a Hebrew Index printed as an appendix to the Hatch-Redpath 

Concordance, which only gave page references of the Concordance for each Hebrew/Aramaic word. In 

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of the canonical books, but also an apocryphal book such as the Aramaic fragments of Tobit. 

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versions of books such as Daniel, Esther and Tobit, and the so-called Antiochene or Proto-Lucianic 

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