The Apology of Aristides on behalf of the Christians : from a Syriac ms. preserved on Mount Sinai / edited with an introduction and translation by J. Rendel Harris ; with an appendix containing the main portion of the original Greek text by J. Armitage Robinson.

By: Aristides, active 2nd century
Contributor(s): Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941 | Robinson, J. Armitage (Joseph Armitage), 1858-1933
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Syriac, Modern Series: Texts and studies (Cambridge, England): v. 1, no. 1.Publisher: Nendeln : Liechtenstein, [1967]Manufacturer: Nendeln : Kraus ReprintCopyright date: ©1967Edition: Second editionDescription: 118, 28 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Apologetics -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Reprint of the 1893 edition, published by University Press, Cambridge, Eng. which was a reprint of the first edition, with a few verbal corrections and the substitution of a fresh literal translation of a few lines of the Armenian version cited on page 78. cf. pref.

The original text of the Apology is lost. A recension of it is preserved in the Greek version of the legend of Barlaam and Joasaph (Nachor's speech to the king) Besides the Syriac translation, discovered by P. R. Harris in 1889, a fragment of an Armenian translation exists in two manuscripts which contain the first two chapters.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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