The Church Fathers · c. 542
Handbook of the Divine Law
Instituta Regularia Divinae Legis
Junillus Africanus
What it is
A catechism-style introduction to reading scripture — its kinds of book, its authority, its style — adapted from a Syriac original of the school of Nisibis.
Why it lasted
A rare document of Antiochene biblical method reaching the Latin world, and a favourite of Cassiodorus.
Where to read it
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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