Terullian and Irenaeus text recommendations...

[toejam]

I'm looking for some sort of book / series of volumes in English of the writings of Tertullian and Irenaeus that includes a scripture index and perhaps a mini running commentary. Something along the lines of the well known Hendrickson edition of 'The Complete Works of Josephus'. Any recommendations?

[DCHindley]

I'm looking for some sort of book / series of volumes in English of the writings of Tertullian and Irenaeus that includes a scripture index and perhaps a mini running commentary. Something along the lines of the well known Hendrickson edition of 'The Complete Works of Josephus'. Any recommendations?

The 1857 Latin/Greek edition of Irenaeus by W. Wigan Harvey does not have a continuous English translation, but the Preface is pretty lengthy (about the possible origins of the heresies Irenaeus is attacking, although not very good in my opinion) and there are English comments in the footnotes to the Latin & Greek fragments. The English translation in the Ante-Nicene Fathers series (vol 1), if Alexander Roberts followed his normal practice, should follow Harvey's edition fairly closely wrt books 1 & 2. R. H. Rambaut probably followed Roberts' practice when he translated books 3-5 and the fragments.

Andrew C could probably recommend a good commentary on Tertullian.

However, like most of this stuff, the treatment of the subject matter, whether Irenaeus or Tertullian, can get a little stuffy at times. Be prepared to hold your nose now and then.

DCH

[MrMacSon]

All I have found is

E. Allo Isichei, Political Thinking and Social Experience: Some Christian Interpretations of the Roman Empire from Tertullian to Salvian (Christchurch: University of Canterbury, 1964).

The Selected Works of Tertullian (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus)

"studies by T. D. Barnes (1971) and R. D. Sider (1971)."

Barnes, T.D. (1971). Tertullian: A literary and historical study (Reprinted with appendix of revisions 1985 ed.). Oxford.
Bitel, Lisa M. Bitel & Lifshitz, Felice (2008). Gender and Christianity in medieval Europe: new perspectives. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Daniel, Robin (2010). This Holy Seed: Faith, Hope and Love in the Early Churches of North Africa. Chester: Tamarisk Publications. ISBN 0-9538565-3-4.
Ekonomou, Andrew J. (2007). Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes: Eastern influences on Rome and the papacy from Gregory the Great to Zacharias, A.D. 590–752. Lexington Books.
Froom, LeRoy (1950). The Prophetic Faith of our Fathers (DjVu and PDF). 1. Review and Herald Publishing Association.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertullian#Bibliography

Tertullian's writings are edited in volumes 1–2 of the Patrologia Latina, and modern texts exist in the Corpus Christianorum Latinorum. English translations by Sidney Thelwall and Philip Holmes can be found in volumes III and IV of the Ante-Nicene Fathers which are freely available online; more modern translations of some of the works have been made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertullian#Works

[andrewcriddle]

For Tertullian you might try looking on Roger Pearse's site http://www.tertullian.org/

Andrew Criddle