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The Psalms of Solomon (Greek version)

English translation by G. B. Gray, from The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English , edited by R. H. Charles, volume 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1913 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Charles’s introduction to the book, the headings and summaries he added, his notes and the record of the manuscript readings at the foot of the page, and the Greek, Hebrew and Latin words quoted in them are also left out, and so are the Greek superscriptions and the musical terms in the margin. Where the OCR lost the number of a verse in the middle of a line, the verse is left joined to the one before. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1913 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The Psalms of Solomon (Syriac version)

English translation by J. Rendel Harris and Alphonse Mingana, from The Odes and Psalms of Solomon , volume 2: the translation, with introduction and notes, by J. Rendel Harris and Alphonse Mingana (Manchester: The University Press, 1920); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1920 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. The editors’ introduction and the indexes are also left out. The psalms are numbered as in the Syriac manuscript, which continues the numbering of the Odes of Solomon (43 to 60). No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1920 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The Odes of Solomon

English translation by J. Rendel Harris and Alphonse Mingana, from The Odes and Psalms of Solomon, volume 2: the translation, with introduction and notes (Manchester: The University Press, 1920); public domain. The text was read by machine (OCR) from a scan of the book and has not been proofread against the printed pages. SermonIndex has removed page numbers and divided the text into sections; the wording is the translators’ own. The editors’ long notes and the Syriac text are left out, so that only the Odes themselves are printed, and a few brief editorial brackets remain. Licence: Public domain.

Some Apocryphal Psalms in Syriac

English translation by William Wright, in the Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, vol. 9 (1886–7); public domain. The text was transcribed for Roger Pearse’s collection Early Church Fathers – Additional Texts (tertullian.org/fathers). SermonIndex has removed the page numbers and the footnotes and divided the text into sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Licence: Public domain.

Some Uncanonical Psalms

English translation by Alphonse Mingana, from Woodbrooke Studies: Christian documents in Syriac, Arabic and Garshūni , edited and translated by A. Mingana, with introductions by Rendel Harris, volume 1 (Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, 1927); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1927 volume at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Rendel Harris’s introduction and the Syriac text in facsimile are also left out. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1927 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The Story of Ahikar (Syriac version)

English translation by J. Rendel Harris, A. S. Lewis and F. C. Conybeare, from The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English , edited by R. H. Charles, volume 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1913 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Charles’s introduction to the book, the headings and summaries he added, his notes and the record of the manuscript readings at the foot of the page, and the Greek, Hebrew and Latin words quoted in them are also left out. The second Syriac text (version B), which is fragmentary and is printed under the first, the Armenian version, which is printed in a third column and has no numbering of its own, and the Ethiopic, Greek and Slavonic pieces that follow are also left out; the Arabic version is given separately. The passage that begins chapter 8 is missing from the scan, and verse 1 of that chapter is therefore lacking. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1913 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The Story of Ahikar (Arabic version)

English translation by J. Rendel Harris, A. S. Lewis and F. C. Conybeare, from The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English , edited by R. H. Charles, volume 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1913 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Charles’s introduction to the book, the headings and summaries he added, his notes and the record of the manuscript readings at the foot of the page, and the Greek, Hebrew and Latin words quoted in them are also left out. The Syriac versions, the Armenian version, which is printed in a third column and has no numbering of its own, and the Ethiopic, Greek and Slavonic pieces that follow are also left out; the Syriac version A is given separately. The beginning of chapter 8 is missing from the scan, and verse 1 of that chapter is therefore lacking. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1913 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The Letter of Aristeas

English translation by H. T. Andrews, from The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English , edited by R. H. Charles, volume 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1913 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. The editor’s long introduction, his notes at the foot of the page, the Greek words and the record of the manuscript readings are also left out, and so are the daggers that mark passages he thought corrupt. The section numbers are those printed in the margin; where the OCR lost one, the section is left unnumbered. The text is divided into seven parts for reading only; the letter itself has no such divisions. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1913 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The Fourth Book of Maccabees

English translation by R. B. Townshend, from The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English , edited by R. H. Charles, volume 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1913 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Charles’s introduction to the book, the headings and summaries he added, his notes and the record of the manuscript readings at the foot of the page, and the Greek, Hebrew and Latin words quoted in them are also left out. The verse numbers are also left out, because in this scan most of them are missing or are run into the text, so that the chapter and verse could not be told apart; only the chapter divisions are kept. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1913 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

Pirke Aboth, the Sayings of the Fathers

English translation by R. T. Herford, from The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English , edited by R. H. Charles, volume 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1913 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Charles’s introduction to the book, the headings and summaries he added, his notes and the record of the manuscript readings at the foot of the page, and the Greek, Hebrew and Latin words quoted in them are also left out, and so are the later comment printed with it in the notes and the margin references to the Bible, which the OCR had run into the text. The later insertions that Herford put in square brackets are kept. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1913 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The Biblical Antiquities of Philo

English translation by M. R. James, from The Biblical Antiquities of Philo , now first translated from the Old Latin version by M. R. James (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917; Translations of Early Documents , Series I: Palestinian-Jewish Texts, Pre-Rabbinic); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1917 edition from the University of California library at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. James’s long introduction, his notes at the foot of the page, the margin references to the Bible, the two appendices on the Latin readings and vocabulary, and the index are also left out. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1917 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The Sibylline Oracles

English translation by Milton S. Terry, from The Sibylline Oracles, translated from the Greek into English blank verse , by Milton S. Terry (New York: Hunt & Eaton, 1890); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1890 edition from the University of Toronto library at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Terry’s preface and introduction, the anonymous preface of the manuscripts, the summaries of the books, his notes at the foot of the pages, the references to the Greek lines and the index are also left out. The line numbers are Terry’s, shown in square brackets before every fifth line (and before the first line of each book), and a slash marks the end of a line of verse. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1890 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

A Jeremiah Apocryphon

The Early Church Fathers Writings - Volume 105

Volume 105 of the Early Church Fathers Writings, 500 BC – AD 500: the Psalms and Odes of Solomon, the Story of Ahikar, the Letter of Aristeas, Fourth Maccabees, Pirke Aboth, Pseudo-Philo’s Biblical Antiquities and the Sibylline Oracles, in English.

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