Willi Heffening publishes a German translation of two litanies that are preserved only in a Paschal book from the Coptic Church. Heffening also includes an introduction and supplements the translation with critical notes.

Willi Heffening publishes here the Arabic version of the “sermon against laughter” attributed to Ephrem. Heffening accompanies the Arabic text with a brief introduction, a German translation, and a critical apparatus with variants from the Greek version.

In the present study, Willi Heffening presents a German translation of two sermons by Chrysostom on the subject of the monk Theodore preserved in Arabic. The text is also extant in Greek, but the Arabic version contains several unique features.