The Syriac text of Eusebius' Historia Ecclestiastica, is here translated into German from 5th and 6th century manuscripts.
SKU (ISBN): 978-1-61719-369-9
Publication Status: In Print
Publication Date: Aug 12,2010
Interior Color: Black
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Page Count: 308
Language: German
ISBN: 978-1-61719-369-9
Eusebius of Caesarea, the friend and biographer of Constantine, wrote the first history of the Church. It is here translated from the oldest surviving Syriac manuscripts, the Saint Petersburg MS dated to 462, the sixth-century, but superior, British Library MS, and several fragments. This version must have been translated in or near Eusebius' lifetime, and therefore serves to correct the Greek original; extensive critical and source notes,