Brigham
Young University is pleased to publish two series that promote the
study of Eastern Christian literature. Eastern Christian Texts provides
specialists and nonspecialists with reliable English-language translations
of seminal works paired with facing original-language texts. The
Library of the Christian East is a comprehensive collection of introductions
to Eastern Christian authors and topics.
In these series all
of the Eastern Christian traditions will be represented, including
the Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Catholic, Oriental and Oriental Orthodox,
and other Eastern Christian churches and sects. Each volume is produced
to meet the highest editorial standards and is elegantly designed
to reflect the dignity of the tradition it represents; yet the price
is kept at a minimum to encourage wide dissemination.
Eastern Christianity has received increasing attention over the course of the last century and a half. One of the primary reasons for this growth in interest is the realization by Western scholars that the Eastern Christian churches have preserved a vast and significant literary corpus. This literature is important first and foremost as a record of the thought and religious life of Christians indigenous to the Middle East. But it is also important for many ancillary subjects, such as Old and New Testament textual studies, biblical hermeneutics and history of exegesis, apocryphal and pseudepigraphal literature, Classical, Late Antique and Medieval History, history of science and medicine, etc. Though great strides have been taken in the publication of texts, many readers and scholars are denied access to this rich heritage because so little is available in translation.
Brigham Young University is therefore pleased to publish the Eastern Christian Texts series. Continuing in the tradition of such bilingual series as Sources chrétiennes and Fontes Christiani, Eastern Christian Texts publishes reliable editions of original texts together with facing English translations. Volumes will include an introduction, bibliography, and such annotation as is necessary to orient the reader to the work and clarify the thought of the author. The series embraces writings from the full spectrum of Eastern Christian literatures, languages and traditions.
