Analecta Gorgiana

The Acts of Pilate is an apocryphal document of uncertain date. Conybeare offers an introduction to and a critical edition of this text based on a Greek recension compared with two Armenian versions.

Turning his keen linguistic eye toward various influences on the Syriac language, Lagarde he addresses the various Persian, Armenian, and Indic words that occur in Syriac literature. Arranged alphabetically according to the Syriac spelling of the words, Lagarde ably addresses 222 loan words with frequently detailed entries tracing roots of the words back through their linguistic pedigree. For the scholar of comparative Semitic philology who is interested in the wider background and origins of these specific words, this booklet will prove to be a powerful and much-used tool.

Hasting’s Great Texts of the Bible was a massive, twenty volume set of Bible Studies. Under each biblical book comments were added to the lections in order to provide homiletical support. Conscientious about the difficulty of locating material in a resource of about 10,000 pages, Hastings had an index prepared. Knowing that clergy and biblical scholars tend to seek subjects for study, the index was prepared as an alphabetical index rather than a simple scriptural one. Such a resource retains its value for those who continue to use the extensive commentary that Hastings edited. This little index will be helpful to anyone following in Hasting’s impressive footsteps.

The genuineness of the Slavonic text of Josephus; a massive compilation of evidence.

This work highlights the legal position of Christian women under the Roman Empire collected from accounts of trials and martyrdom from Tertullian to Jerome and John Chrysostom.

Notes on Erwin Preuschen’s edition of Origen’s Commentary on the Gospel according to John.

The main goal of this study is to present data from Syriac and Christian Arabic writers, and some other sources, dealing with missionary activity and the expansion of Christianity into east Asia.

Demonstration of the inauthenticity of the commentary on the Gospels ascribed to Theophilus of Antioch

This book examines which ornaments were actually in use in second year of King Edward VI, during the incessant changes of the English Reformation.

Renan (1823-1892) here gives a study of Aristotelian philosophy among both east Syriac and west Syriac schools at different times and in different centers, including Syriac texts as paving the way for the Arabic reception of Greek philosophy.

A survey of the independent subjunctive in Plautus, resulting in an alternative set of rules for its use and application.

This volume contains Syriac texts of the old Syriac translation of Gregory Nazianzen’s orations edited from British Museum manuscripts. Fourteen orations, in whole or in part, are included, with concordance of the texts with Migne’s Patrologia Graeca edition.

Gerhard Beyer surveys the evidence for the transmission of Eusebius’s work including questions and answers on the Gospels (peri diaphonias euangelion) within the Jacobite and the Nestorian Syriac traditions.

A monograph on several curse-tablets owned by Johns Hopkins University including text, translation, and extensive commentaries.

Rahmani here presents the first edition of the martyrdom stories of Guria and Shmona in Syriac, who were killed during the Diocletian persecution. The editor also gives a Latin translation and discusses historical and textual matters in the introduction.

This volume, in Arabic, provides an overview of biblical history in the form of questions and answers divided into chapters by theme.

Sbath here publishes the Arabic text of The Medical Garden, a compendium of medical-philosophical definitions, the work of the last prominent member of the famous Bakhtishu‘ family of physicians, with notes and a brief introduction.

This paper presents a thorough review of the physical remains and excavation history of the Athenian Acropolis from the Bronze Age to the early 20th Century.

The site report for the University of Pennsylvania's excavation of Nippur in Iraq. The detailed excavation report includes photographs, diagrams, and topographical map.

In this edition of the poems of Mutalammis, a 6th-century poet from the tribe of Bakr, Vollers draws on his extensive experience in Cairo to present an informative edition of the poems in both Arabic and German translation. After a substantial introduction to the material at hand, the Arabic texts, annotated, are presented. This is followed by the fragments that have survived and a translation of texts I to XVII. With this wealth of material, the interested reader of early Arabic poetry will find this edition of poems by Mutalammis a welcome edition to their library of Arabic literature.

As the introductory lecture to his collection of observations on ancient religion, Sayce begins this extract with a consideration of the difficulties of knowing what can be deduced from ancient Mesopotamian religion. Extracted from Sayce’s Origin and Growth of Religion, this booklet will be of interest to those who research the early period of the field of Assyriology in order to learn where various concepts about Mesopotamian religious life have their genesis.

Rackham publishes here a critical edition of the Canons of the Council of Ancyra (314). In his comments on the text he evaluates the manuscripts available for this edition and provides the Syriac and Armenian versions for comparative purposes.

In the first English attempt to address the Syriac homilies of Aphraates, Gavin sets a context for the material by considering the church and the sermons themselves. The topic of how the Jews are treated in the homilies is given special attention.

Noted American philosopher Albert Balz offers his observations on the concepts of idea and essence as reflected in the philosophers Hobbes and Spinoza.

The Teaching of Addai is a Syriac document convincingly dated by some scholars in the fourth or fifth century AD. I agree with this dating, but I think that there may be some points containing possible historical traces that go back even to the first century AD, such as the letters exchanged by king Abgar and Tiberius. Some elements in them point to the real historical context of the reign of Abgar ‘the Black’ in the first century. The author of the Doctrina might have known the tradition of some historical letters written by Abgar and Tiberius.