Solomon of Basra
Bishop of Basra (Pêrath-Maishân) in the Church of the East; his Book of the Bee is a collection of teachings on the creation, the patriarchs, the prophets, Christ, the apostles and the end of the world, ‘gleaned’ like honey from earlier writers.
Writings
English translations (older public-domain ones, and a few modern ones shared under open licences), divided into chapters and short sections, with a download for each. A modern English version and the original-language text are planned for the works that matter most.
- The Book of the Bee (Budge translation) Older EnglishOCR text 3.4 h read
Most translations are the older ones in the public domain (mostly the nineteenth-century Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers); a few are modern translations shared under an open licence, with the translators credited on the work’s page. Square brackets and any Greek or Latin words are as the source prints them.