Titus of Bostra
author: Sebastian P. Brock
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
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Titus of Bostra

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Titus-of-Bostra http://syriaca.org/bibl/569 560 http://syriaca.org/person/794 [person] [Bp. of Bostra and Greek author of important work against the Manichaeans.]

(2nd half 4th cent.)

Bp. of Bostra and Greek author. His most important work is a treatise in four books against the Manichaeans ( CPG 3575), whose Greek original only survives in part (ed. P. de Lagarde, 1859; further sections, ed. P. Nagel, 1973), but the complete text is preserved in Syriac translation in a ms. copied in Edessa in 411.

Sources

CPG 3575–3581.
P. de Lagarde, Titus Bostrenus syriace et graece (1859; repr. 1967). (Syr. and Greek)
P. Nagel, ‘Neues griechisches Material zu Titus von Bostra’, Studia Byzantina 2 (1973), 285–350. (Grk.)
N. A. Pedersen, Demonstrative Proof in Defence of God. A Study of Titus of Bostra’s Contra Manichaeos (2004).
N. A. Pedersen, ‘Titus of Bostra in Syriac literature’, Laval théologique et philosophique 62 (2006), 359–67.
P.-H. Poirier and C. Sensal, ‘Quelques réflexions sur la version syriaque du Contra Manichaeos de Titus de Bostra’, in SymSyr V, 307–19.

Sebastian P. Brock