Comments on: Indian Patristics: Rather Huge News

By: Mike Aquilina

Mike Aquilina — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:30:37 +0000

Kevin,
Those translations are good. But there is indeed a single complete translation of Aphrahat’s Demonstrations. Unfortunately, it’s available only in India. It’s in two volumes, translated by Kuriakose Valavanolickal. I’m holding it in my hands — bought it from Merging Currents.

By: Kevin P. Edgecomb

Kevin P. Edgecomb — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:25:46 +0000

Bekman, Demonstrations 1, 5, 6, 8, 10, 17, 21, and 22 are availaible through the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers collection, in various places online, like this one. Demonstrations 2 and 7 are available from Roger Pearse's site, here. Just scroll down to Aphrahat to find the links. Most of the remaining Demonstrations (11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 21 in full, and excerpts of 23) were translated by Jacob Neusner in his Aphrahat and Judaism: The Christian-Jewish Argument in Fourth-Century Iran (Brill, 1971). There is no single complete translation of St Aphrahat's Demonstrations (yet!) in English. Someone will take care of that soon enough.

By: bekman

bekman — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:18:28 +0000

i’d like to get my hands on translations of aphraat, is this the place to go? i clicked around but wasn’t able to find it.

peace.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:44:52 +0000

FYI: I recently obtained a copy of a new DVD: Kerala, The Cradle of Christianity in South Asia, put out by Joseph J. Palackal. [Info at http://www.thecmsindia.org. Very nice visuals and a good overall view of Christianity and its music in southern India.