Translation & transmission
How ancient books survived: translations, fragments quoted by later writers, and the scholars who preserved them.
Key terms: μετάφρασις (metaphrasis), translatio, codex, fragmentum, testimonium — the Day 14 terms index will link each term to its occurrences across the corpus.
- Apelles — testimonia
- Fragments of Aristobulus
- Basilides — fragments and testimonia
- Celsus, True Doctrine — fragments via Origen
- Fragments
- Fragments of Hegesippus
- De Viris Illustribus (On Illustrious Men)
- Josephus in later writers — testimonia
- Marcion — testimonia and quotations (not a reconstruction)
- Fragments
- Pantaenus — testimonia
- Fragments of Papias (preserved by Irenaeus and Eusebius)
- Lost works of Philo — testimonia
- Questions and Answers on Exodus — Fragments
- Porphyry, Against the Christians — fragments via Eusebius
- Fragments
- Valentinus — fragments
Apelles
Aristobulus of Alexandria
Basilides
Celsus
Epictetus
Hegesippus
Jerome
Josephus
Marcion of Sinope
Numenius of Apamea
Pantaenus
Papias of Hierapolis
Philo of Alexandria
Porphyry
Tatian
Valentinus