This volume brings together a significant selection of scholarly contributions on Bardaisan of Edessa, orginally written by a dozen prominent orietalists, historians, and theologians in various languages. For this edition, these texts have been carefully translated into Turkish from English, French, and German and editorially prepared.
The anthology thus provides a unique overview of the history of scholarship on Bardaisan in the 19th and 20th centuries, reflecting the development of scholarly understanding of this extraordibarly figure from multiple methodological and confessional perspectives.