Books in the Cambridge Library Collection - Religion series

Giovanni Bernardo de Rossi (1742-1831), professor of oriental languages at the University of Parma, was an important collector of manuscripts and incunabula, and an authority on Hebrew typography and textual variants. This volume comprises his 1800 Latin catalogue of Jewish anti-Christian polemics and an 1812 Italian catalogue of books from his library.

Published in 1851, this edition of Pistis Sophia, an important second-century Gnostic work, was edited by the orientalist Julius Heinrich Petermann (1801-76) and presents the Coptic text derived from codices stored in the British Museum, followed by a Latin translation by the German scholar Moeritz Gotthilf Schwartze (1802-48).

Volume 4 of Pahlavi Texts was published in 1892 and comprises West's collation and analysis of the fragmentary evidence for and remnants of the Nasks, the twenty-one treatises compiling theological texts of the Sassanid empire. These were largely lost after the fall of the empire in the mid-seventh century CE.

Volume 3 of Pahlavi Texts was published in 1885 and includes the texts of Dina-i Mainog-i Khirad, Sikand-gumanik Vigar, and the Sad Dar. The translations of these manuscripts provide further historical and social context to Zoroastrianism and its relationship with other contemporary faiths, from lay and clerical perspectives.

Volume 2 of Pahlavi Texts was published in 1882 and includes histories of the manuscripts of the ninth-century Dadistan-i Dinik and Epistles of Manuskihar, as well as noting their relevance to scholarship and Zoroastrian history. Their scope provides an insight into the nature of Zoroastrianism in the period.

Volume 1 of Pahlavi Texts was published in 1880 and includes a guide to Parsi writings, a history of Pahlavi language and literature and studies of the texts translated within. These texts include the Bundahis, the Bahman Yast, and the Shayast La-Shayast, written around the sixth century CE.

Agnes Lewis (1843-1926) was a biblical scholar credited with the discovery of a number of ancient manuscripts. This text from the monastic library of St Catherine, Mount Sinai, first published in 1900, is a collection of stories in Syriac describing the lives of saintly women including Pelagia and Eugenia.

Agnes Lewis (1843-1926) was a biblical scholar credited with the discovery of a number of significant ancient manuscripts. This text from the monastic library of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, first published in 1900, is a translation of Syriac stories describing the lives of saintly women including Pelagia and Eugenia.

Eberhard Nestle (1851-1913) was a German biblical scholar known chiefly for his textual criticism of the New Testament. This text, first published in 1894 as part of the Studia Sinaitica, is a Syriac version of a Plutarch treatise on human virtue, accompanied by Nestle's typical careful translation and notes.

George Robert Stow Mead (1863-1933). a member of the Theosophical Society, published widely on both eastern religions and western esotericism. This translation of Pistis Sophia, published in 1896, was the first major gnostic text available to English-speaking readers. It presents the risen Jesus addressing mysterious teachings to his disciples.

This 1938 work is the final book by the pre-eminent religious scholar, C. G. Montefiore (1858-1938). Founder of Liberal Judaism, Montefiore collected, with his co-editor, Herbert Loewe (1882-1940), more than 1,600 passages from Rabbinic literature dating from 100 to 500 CE, providing extensive theological, historical, and lexical context.

In this 1905 work the classical historian J. B. Bury considers the life of St Patrick, to whom he was drawn through study of other missionaries across the later Roman empire. His first chapter surveys the context of the diffusion of Christianity, and an appendix supplies details of the original sources.

Published in 1860, this book is the detailed record of the conference on Christian missions held in Liverpool in that year. It has a complete index of the subjects discussed which included the education and recruitment of missionaries, fundraising, female education and the consequences of the Indian Mutiny of 1857.

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 2 continues with Old Testament and Talmudic heroines and concludes with a section on modern Jewish women.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.