The apology of Aristides on behalf of the Christians
Subtitle: from a Syriac ms. preserved on Mount Sinai
By: edited 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
Contributors: Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941, ed. and tr; Robinson, J. Armitage (Joseph Armitage), 1858-1933
Edition: 2d ed.
Series: Texts and studies -- v. 1, no. 1; Texts and studies (Cambridge, England : 1967) -- v. 1, no. 1
Publisher: Liechtenstein; Kraus Reprint
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Nendeln
Language: eng; syr
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Apologetics; Early works to 1800; History
Notes: Reprint of the 1893 ed., published by University Press, Cambridge, Eng. which was a reprint of the first ed., 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 Armenian translation exists in two manuscripts which contain the first two chapters.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.