Omschrijving
This is the second edition of a book published in 1962. Subsequently, much has been written about Syriac Christianity, which made it necessary to rewrite the original introduction of this book - and many additions have been made to its great number of references.
A.F.J. Klijn is Emeritus Professor of the University of Groningen. In his early years he was especially attracted by the textual criticism of the New Testament. Later, his attention was directed to Jewish Christianity and the apocryphal literature. Among many other books and articles he is the author of Die Syrische Baruch-Apokalypse (Gütersloh, 1976), and Jewish-Christian Gospel Tradition (Brill, 1991).