Vorkosigan

This is the URL of the complete text of Bauer's ORTHODOXY AND HERESY IN EARLIEST CHRISTIANITY
<a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Resources/Bauer/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Resources/Bauer/</a>

published in 1934

From the Foreword:

"It is not surprising that Bauer's investigation of "orthodoxy" and "heresy" in early Christianity has had relatively little direct influence on the English-speaking world (see appendix 2) and, despite its obvious significance and its presence on reading lists for advanced study in Christian origins, never has been translated into English. The book was written for a rather limited audience -- it is not an introductory volume for the beginner, nor is it a synthesis of modern opinions about the subject matter, but was written for scholars, as an original, front-line contribution to the progress of historical investigation. Bauer presupposes that his readers are conversant with the subject matter at more than an elementary level (see below, xxiv f.). In short, this investigation originally was oriented toward an audience that would be difficult to find today outside the hallways and classrooms of the best institutions of higher learning."

CX

Fantastic. Thank you. Wish I read German so I could read Bauer's original text, but I don't. Perhaps I should learn? Maybe 3 languages isn't enough, though it might be good to learn Hebrew first.

Vorkosigan

Yes, when I started to read it, the translation is a bit awkward in places (use of present tense in narrating past events), as though one translator was not a native speaker.

I can't wait to find time, maybe around 2037 or so, when I can actually read all these books. Last year I was more or less unemployed, and catching up on the reading almost made it worthwhile.

Michael