Early Christian Studies Series Vol 22: The Canons of Hippolytus, Alistair C. Stewart

The book is a fresh English version presented with annotation explaining the peculiarities of transmission and translation for those unequipped with Arabic. This is accompanied by a facing Arabic text for the benefit of those with some knowledge of the language.

The texts and notes are prefaced by an extensive introduction: of particular significance in the introduction is the re-examination of the date and provenance of the document. whereas it has for centuries been assumed to have originated in Egypt, extensive evidence for the Cappadocian or Antiochene origin is presented. This leads to a major re-assessment of the value of the document for the liturgical historian, for the historian of asceticism in the fourth century, and for the social historian.