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.
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Aristides, 2nd cent.
Contributors: Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941.
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Format: Book
Language:English
Syriac
Armenian
Greek
Greek, Syriac, and English.
Published / Created: Cambridge [Eng.] : The University press, 1893.
Edition:2d ed.
Series:Texts and studies; contributions to Biblical ad patristic literature / ed. by J. Armitage Robinson ; 1, no. 1
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Notes: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.

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.

Physical description: 118 p., 1 leaf, 28 p., 2 leaves : ill. facsim. ; 23 cm.

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