One item that has hung around on my PC for ages now is Theodoret’s Commentary on Romans. A translation actually exists of this obscure item, published by an Oxford Movement person in the 1840’s, in a journal, and then forgotten. I did scan it in the then-new Finereader 11 back in early 2012; but a bug in the software promptly erased a whole load of formatting. The original editor had used italics instead of quotes, where bits of the bible were involved, which means there are a lot of them.
I re-added the italics, laboriously, not realising why it had disappeared; and lo! it vanished again.
After trudging through 80 pages, twice, adding italics all over each page, my will to live disappeared and I left it to one side.
But I have got stuck into this again. This time I add italics to a page, and then copy the page into Word before I do anything else. Slowly, slowly, I am building up the text. Another 25 pages to go. I hope to get it done this week.
Did you see that an English translation of Theodoret’s A Cure of Pagan Maladies is finally coming Sep 30 in the Ancient Christian Writers series by Paulist Press?
I’ve been waiting years for it.
I see that the translator, Thomas Halton, just died in May, age 88.
On tenter-hooks. Looking forward. Thx.
Pat
No, I didn’t! But that is excellent news. It’s always baffled me why all of Theodoret doesn’t exist in English. A nice step forward.
I guess the Paulist Press is good for something.
A propos, does everybody know that Wipf and Stock is selling the 1844 edition published by John Henry Parker of St. Gregory’s Moralia in Iob? Four volumes, paperback, digitally scanned, not retypeset. $152, sale price. Suits me fine.
Browse to: https://wipfandstock.com/store/Morals_on_the_Book_of_Job__4_volumes
Pat
Good to know that it exists; but a very high price. Still, it probably costs around $20 per volume, and nobody does that without wanting to make a profit.
I wonder if the PDF’s are around somewhere…
Paulist do a lot of good stuff; the problem is how anyone ever sees any of it.