Divining Gospel

Jeff W. Childers, Abilene Christian Universität, TX, U.S.A.

Jeff W. Childers, Abilene Christian University, TX, U.S.A.

"[...] this is an outstanding piece of scholarship and a fundamental work, which will remain
so for years to come." Florin Filimon in: Byzantine Review 03.2021.009, 99-105.

"Childers's work is a monument of much learned erudition, thoroughgoing explication, and empassioned attention to detail. Readers will be richly rewarded by a close and advertent reading of this important Syriac manuscript, to which the writer has brought the full force of his academic rigor, heightened acumen, and impressively broad command of the primary and secondary literature." Roy D. Kotansky in: Early Christianity 12, no. 4 (2021): 495-523.

"Childers has made a tremendous achievement in integrating BL Add 17,119 and the evidence from Greek, Armenian, Coptic, and Latin manuscripts into a single coherent explication. In effect, he has singlehandedly illuminated late antique Syriac divination as a component of a multicultural Christian tradition. [...] All in all, Childers's study is a crucial act in the understanding of late antique Syriac divination within its wider Christian context. The book succeeds on many levels, both as a thorough philological treatment of BL Add 17,119 and as a contribution to the cultural history of late antique Christianity." David Calabro, in: Hugoye. Journal of Syriac Studies 25.1 (2022): 283-295.