This volume compiles various ancient lives including that of Simeon Stylites. This is both a standard piece of source-criticism and a sourcebook for all modern students of Symeon.

The classic collection of the evidence on Hippolytus of Rome, his works, his actions as a leader of the church, his martyrdom, and his surviving fragments

Five studies in the textual criticism of the New Testament are presented in this volume.

At the court of a fictitious King of Persia, first the Christians debate the pagans, with a rabbi as referee, and then the Christians debate the Jews, with a pagan referee. Standard edition, long unavaiable, with commentary and indices.

Four debates between the Christians and the Greeks on philosophy and theology;they come down to us among the works of Justin, but written by Diodorus of Tarsus.

This book presents parallel texts of the Acts of the Three Martyrs of Edessa; the Syriac text is translated into German, Greek, and Latin.

A collection of the fragments of the lost Preaching of Peter, with possible fragments and an appendix on the dates of Jesus.

This book explores the dating and place of the martyrdom and commemmoration of Peter and Paul; false theories are examined.

The Syriac text of Eusebius' Historia Ecclestiastica, is here translated into German from 5th and 6th century manuscripts.

Beginning with the history of the formation of the first Christian churches, this work begins with an extensive source criticism of the text of Acts, a history of the Church of Jerusalem, and the organization and action of Paul's mission to the Gentiles.