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The late Prof. Mary Boyce for an extract from Textual Sources for the Study of Zoroastrianism (originally Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984; rights now reverted to the author).
Prof. David Brakke for an extract from Athanasius and Asceticism, translated by D. Brakke (Baltimore, 1998).
Cambridge University Press for extracts from Sallustius: Concerning the Gods and the Universe, translated by A.D. Nock (Cambridge, 1926); Origen: Contra Celsum, translated by H. Chadwick (Cambridge, 1953).
The Catholic University of America Press for extracts from St John Chrysostom: Discourses against Judaizing Christians (Fathers of the Church, vol. 68), translated by P.W. Harkins (Washington, DC, 1979).
The Edwin Mellen Press for extracts from Jerome, Chrysostom, and Friends, translated by E.A. Clark (New York, 1979).
The Egypt Exploration Society for extracts from The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vols 12, 33 and 73.
Harvard University Press for the following, reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from:
Julian, Volume II, Loeb Classical Library Volume 29, with an English translation by Wilmer Cave Wright, pp. 411–13, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1913 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Libanius, Selected Orations, Volume II, Loeb Classical Library Volume 452, edited and translated by A.F. Norman, pp. 107, 109, 111, 113, 125, 127, 151, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1977 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Plotinus, Volume I, Porphyry on Plotinus, Ennead I, with an English translation by A.H. Armstrong, pp. 69, 71, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1966 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Plotinus, Volume V, Ennead V, Loeb Classical Library Volume 444, with an English translation by A.H. Armstrong, pp. 141, 143, 145, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1984 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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Koninklijke Brill NV for extracts from The Nag Hammadi Library in English, edited by J.M. Robinson (Leiden, 1988).
The Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN for extracts, reprinted with permission, from:
Pachomian Koinonia vol. 1: The Life of Pachomius and his Disciples, translated by A. Veilleux (Cistercian Studies 45. Copyright 1980 by Cistercian Publications).
Pachomian Koinonia vol. 2: Pachomian Chronicles and Rules, translated by A. Veilleux (Cistercian Studies 46. Copyright 1981 by Cistercian Publications).
Besa: The Life of Shenoute, translated by D.N. Bell (Cistercian Studies 73. Copyright 1983 by Cistercian Publications).
Manchester University Press for an extract from Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library Manchester, vol. 3: Theological and literary texts, translated by C.H. Roberts (Manchester, 1938).
Oxford University Press for an extract from Bede’s ‘Ecclesiastical History of the English People’, trans. B. Colgrave and R.A.B. Mynors (Oxford, 1969).
Peeters Publishers for extracts from C. Moss, ‘Jacob of Serugh’s Homilies on the Spectacles of the Theatre’, pp. 108–9 and 109–10 in Le Muséon, vol. 48 (Leuven, 1935).
Prof. Ray Van Dam and Oxford University Press for an extract from R. Van Dam, ‘Self-representation in the will of Gregory of Nazianzus’, Journal of Theological Studies vol. 46(1) (1995): 118–48.
Dr Roger Tomlin for an extract from ‘The curse tablets’ in B. Cunliffe (ed.) The Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath vol. 2: The Finds from the Sacred Spring (Oxford University Committee for Archaeology: monograph no. 16, 1988).
University of Chicago for an extract from The Talmud of the Land of Israel: A Preliminary Translation and Explanation, vol. 33: Abodah Zarah, translated by J. Neusner (Chicago, 1982).
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Acknowledgement is made to the following for permission to reproduce illustrations: Amt für kirchliche Denkmalpflege Trier (16.14); Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (8.2); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (14.12a); The Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Washington, DC (13.6); The German Archaeological Institute, Rome (1.2, 14.4); The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA (1.6); The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (16.12); Pearson Education Ltd. (14.3, 14.5) Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (1.9); The Sinai Archive, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (14.12b); The Society of Antiquaries of London (14.4); The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD (13.5, 16.6 16.11); Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (1.4); Yale University Press, New Haven, CT (2.4). Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the use of copyright items. Author and publisher would be glad to hear from any copyright holders not so acknowledged.