Edited and Translated with Notes and Commentary, ed. Rifaat Y. Ebied, Malatius M. Malki, and Lionel R. Wickham †. Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, 15. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020, XVIII, 169 pp.

This volume is part of “a major research project of publishing a comprehensive corpus of the Polemical Treatises of Bar Ṣalībī” (X) which “have only been published in a partial and piecemeal fashion” and “have never been translated as an entirety nor have they received systematic comment” (XI), as the editors state in their preface. Dionysius bar Ṣalībī (d. 1171) was a scholar and prolific writer of the period of the so-called Syriac Renaissance (11th–13th centuries). He first became the Syriac Orthodox bishop of Marʿash and later, in 1167, the metropolitan of Amid (Diyarbakır in Turkey). The volume offers an edition and English translation of Bar Ṣalībī’s