The Apology of Aristides on behalf of the Christians,
from a Syriac ms. preserved on Mount Sinai,
ed. 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.

Description

Main Author: Aristides, Marcianus, Saint, of Athens.
Related Names: Robinson, J. Armitage (Joseph Armitage), 1858-1933.
Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941.
Language(s): English ; Syriac, Modern ; Armenian ; Greek, Modern (1453- )
Published: Cambridge [Eng.] The University press, 1893.
Edition: 2d ed.
Subjects: Apologetics > Apologetics / Early works to 1800.
Note: 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 An Armenian translation exists in two manuscripts which contain the first two chapters.
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 p. 78. cf. Pref.
Physical Description: 4 p. ℓ., 118 p., 1 ℓ., 28 p., 2 ℓ. front. (facsim.) 23 cm.
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