Books in the Cambridge Library Collection - Religion series

This 1924 volume broke new ground by considering a collection of fragments of Manichaean texts that had been recently discovered in Turkestan. It describes the dualistic form of Christianity that thrived during the fourth and fifth centuries, and remains important for those studying heterodox movements in early Christianity.

This is a two-volume translation by Clement Huart (1854-1926), a leading French Orientalist, of a fourteenth-century Persian text recording the lives of the founders of the order of whirling dervishes. Published in 1918-22, it provides fascinating insights into the origins of this branch of Islamic mysticism.

In this two-volume set published in 1902, the writings of colonial American missionary David Brainerd help detail his life story and religious work amongst the Native Americans. Volume 2 contains Brainerd's journal retelling his missionary work with native peoples, together with correspondence and other religious writing.

Charles Christian Hennell (1809-1850) was a theological writer best known for his association with George Eliot. First published in 1838, this volume contains Hennell's deconstruction of the Bible to separate the historical character of Jesus from later myths. Hennell's 1839 work Christian Theism is also included in this volume.

Strauss' highly controversial The Life of Jesus applied strict historical methods to the gospel narratives and caused scandal by concluding that all miraculous elements were mythical and ahistorical. Volume 1 introduces the idea of 'de-mythology' and applies modern historical methods to the narratives of Jesus' birth and early life.

Presented in the form of a series of biographical essays, this 1845 history of Hebrew women traces a continuity from the biblical matriarchs to the Jewish women of Aguilar's own generation. Volume 1 focuses on the women of the Old Testament, starting with Eve and concluding with Hannah.

In 1593 documents for a sequel to the Puritan work Parte of a Register were collected, but never published. Edited by the ecclesiastical historian Albert Peel (1886-1949) this study contains a list of these manuscripts, which provide valuable evidence of the concerns of the early Puritan movement in England.

This volume contains the Short Journal, the Itinerary Journal, and the Haistwell Journal of George Fox (1624-1691), the founder of the Religious Society of Friends. It was first published in 1925 to mark the tercentenary of Fox's birth. It is a key source for the origins of the Quaker movement.

This account of the radical ideas of George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, his travels through Europe, the West Indies and America was compiled from documents dictated by Fox himself. First published in 1952, it provides an intimate insight into the life and trials of a seventeenth-century religious reformer.

A commentary written by the revered Assyrian bishop Isho'dad of Merv, an influential figure in the Eastern Church in the ninth century. Covering the gospels, this English translation was first published in 1911 by pioneering scholar Margaret Gibson and is a fascinating glimpse into the theology of its time.

A commentary in Syriac on the gospels of Matthew and Mark, written by the revered Assyrian bishop Isho'dad of Merv, an influential figure in the Eastern Church in the ninth century. First published in 1911 by pioneering scholar Margaret Gibson, this is a detailed interpretation of the first two gospels.

A commentary in Syriac on the gospels of Luke and John, written by the revered Assyrian bishop Isho'dad of Merv, an influential figure in the Eastern Church in the ninth century. First published in 1911 by pioneering scholar Margaret Gibson, this is a detailed interpretation of the first two gospels.

A commentary in Syriac and English on Acts and the epistles of James, Peter and John, written by the revered Assyrian bishop Isho'dad of Merv, an influential figure in the Eastern Church in the ninth century. Translated and first published in 1913 by pioneering scholar Margaret Gibson.

A detailed and incisive commentary in Syriac on the Epistles of Saint Paul, written by the revered Assyrian bishop Isho'dad of Merv, an influential figure in the Eastern Church in the ninth century. Edited and first published in 1916 by pioneering New Testament scholar Margaret Gibson.

A detailed and incisive commentary in English on the Epistles of Saint Paul, written by the revered Assyrian bishop Isho'dad of Merv, an influential figure in the Eastern Church in the ninth century. Translated and first published in 1916 by pioneering New Testament scholar Margaret Gibson.

Documenting the massacre of monks in fourth century Egypt and telling the cautionary tale of hubristic stone-cutter Eulogius, this text in Arabic and Syriac was first published by Agnes Lewis in 1912. Including the full English translation, this is a volume of great theological and historical interest.

Published in 1845, the Essay is an important work from English clergyman John Henry Newman. Written during his own conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, it discusses how the development of Christian teaching over time in Rome and elsewhere was a natural response to human appropriation of God's transcendent truths.