Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Library Collection - Religion

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.

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.

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 survey (1889) by an Oxford professor of Sanskrit presents the history, philosophy and practice of Buddhism in the context of other South Asian traditions. It broke new ground in the Western understanding of Buddhism, and remains of interest to historians of religious studies, Victorian Orientalism, and the British Empire.

George Augustus Selwyn (1809-78) was the first Anglican bishop of New Zealand, and later bishop of Lichfield. His ministry helped to shape the form of the Anglican Communion and the relationship of the colonial churches to the Church of England. This 1879 biography was written by his chaplain.

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 lively three-volume account first published in 1843, the British adventurer and agent of the Bible Society, George Henry Borrow, describes his travels in Spain during the 1830s distributing the scriptures. The book's mixture of exotic travelogue and anti-Catholic sentiment proved very popular with early Victorian readers.

Between 1878 and 1902, Constance E. Plumptre championed some of the most fascinating philosophical theories of the Victorian age. Volume 1 of her history of Pantheism (1878) tackles periods and theories as diverse as Brahminism and Scholasticism to provide an erudite but accessible introduction to Oriental, Greek and modern Pantheism.

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.

An indispensable text in the history of medieval Jewish-Christian relations, this work documents one of the first allegations of Jewish ritual murder. This 1896 edition includes an English translation and extensive introductory material by Augustus Jessop and M. R. James.

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.

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).

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.

In 1834 Congregational Ministers Reed (1787-1862) and Matheson (1766-1840) were sent to sister churches in the United States, to promote peace and friendship between the two communities. In Volume 2 of this two-volume work of 1835, the focus is on theological issues, though education is also discussed.

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.

Reginald Heber (1783-1826), Bishop of Calcutta from 1823 to 1826, spent his episcopate travelling widely throughout India. His widow published this two-volume biography in 1830, as well as editions of his sermons and journals. Volume 1 deals with his early life and career, and includes letters and unpublished writings.

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.

In this 1817 book John Liddiard Nicholas tells the story of a five-month journey from New South Wales to New Zealand in the company of Samuel Marsden, who established the first Christian mission to the Maoris. Volume 1 outlines and highlights the relationships he himself developed with the Maoris.

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.

In this two-volume 1896 work, Alan E. Brooke (1863-1939) edited the revised Greek text of Origen's landmark Commentary on John, a work originally written to rescue the gospel from the divergent interpretations of the Gnostics. Volume 1 discusses the manuscript tradition and provides some of the extant chapters.

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.

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 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.

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 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.