Leontius of Byzantium

Brian E. Daley, SJ, is Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is a historical theologian, who specializes in the study of the early Church, particularly the development of Christian doctrine from the fourth to the eighth centuries. His publications include Light on the Mountain: Greek Patristic and Byzantine Homilies on the Transfiguration of the Lord (St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2013) and Hope of the Early Church: A Handbook of Patristic Eschatology (Baker, 2002). In 2014, he co-edited The Harp of Prophecy: Early Christian Interpretation of the Psalms with Paul R. Kolbet (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014).

• INTRODUCTIONI: The Author and his TimesII: The WorksA. The Six TreatisesB. The FlorilegiaIII: Leontius the TheologianIV: The ManuscriptsV: The ScholiaVI: Earlier EditionsVII: This EditionVIII: Select BibliographyKey to the apparatus of Leontius's FlorilegiaAbbreviationsTEXT AND TRANSLATION1: Contra Nestorianos et Eutychianos (*Lό*go*4a’)Appendix I (Scholion)Appendix II (Scholion)2: Epilyseis (= Solutiones Argumentorum Severi)3: Epaporēmata (= Triginta Capita contra Severum)4: Contra Aphthartodocetas (*Lό*go*4*b’)5: Deprenhensio et Triumphus super Nestorianos (*Lό*g*o*4*g’)6: Adversus Fraudes Apollinaristarum7: Fragmenta IncertaAppendix III (Excerpta Leontina)Appendix IV (Tabular comparison of extracts in Leontius s florilegia with those in other ancient and medieval florilegia)

This impressive volume provides the full text, in Greek with an English translation on facing pages, of six polemical works attributed to an accomplished sixth-century monastic theologian. It also includes much of the necessary textual arcana, such as an account of the manuscript tradition, marginal scholia, previous editions, dubious fragments attributed to the same author, and some truly remarkable scholarship identifying the sources of the texts quoted in Leontius' florilegia ... This at last is the edition of Leontius for theologians to read and cite from now on.