James, M. R. [Hrsg.]: Apocrypha anecdota: a collection of thirteen apocryphal books and fragments (Cambridge, Mass.: Univ. Press, 1893)

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PREFACE

a common tract. The Basilian Menology contains an abstract of
the latter part of it, and so do the printed Greek Menaea. It
represents the Three Children and Daniel as having been beheaded
by Atticus, a successor of Nebuchadnezzar; and narrates their
temporary resurrection at the time of the Crucifixion. It contains
one plain reference—almost the only one known to me—to the
Rest of the Words of Baruch: but it is on the whole late and
rhetorical, and is couched in the homiletic form.
I have been obliged to append a few Additional Notes on
points which were cleared up after the introductions to the various
documents had been written. The Greek and Latin Indices are
not intended to be exhaustive; they only include the more re-
markable words and phrases.
The Editor of this series has deserved here as elsewhere my
best thanks for his patient supervision of my proofs : and so, too,
have those who are in charge of the various libraries whence my
material has been drawn.
M. R. J.

King’s College,
May 19, 1893.