Patristic texts in original languages

[Joshua Ford]

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone knew of a place online where I might find the Fathers in the original language (especially Greek), or if I've just missed it on this website altogether. I'm especially looking for a site that has the words tagged with definitions and parsings (not unlike www.zhubert.com - a site for Bible study in the original languages).

Thanks!

Joshua

[Giovanni]

I can signal the following link;

http://patrologia.ct.aegean.gr/index.htm

It belongs to a Greek University, they are, bit by bit, putting on line the whole Patrologia Graeca of J. P. Migne.

[John Stamps]

For a mere $100 a year, you can subscribe to the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae.

It's stinking wonderful.
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/

They add new works to the database every quarter.

Plus, they've linked the text to Liddell-Scott-Jones lexicon (at Tufts/Perseus). The only thing that'd make it better if it was also hyperlinked to Lampe.

I was reasonably impressed with the Greek university putting Migne into PDF. But somehow UC Irvine has finagled copyrights to recent critical editions e.g. Jaeger's editions of St Gregory Nyssa.

It's definitely worth it IMO.

[Kevin P. Edgecomb]

Joshua, I haven't seen any embedded morphological analysis of patristic texts outside of programs such as BibleWorks, which only includes the Apostolic Fathers collection in both Greek and English. Even the Latin texts in the basic BibleWorks aren't parsed.

Perseus, however, has a very helpful morphological analysis tool, for Greek and Latin (accessible through the Tools & Lexica link in the left column). Both are linked to several different lexicons, included the Liddell-Scott-Jones and Lewis & Short. No Lampe unfortunately.

[David Stark]

CHURCH FATHERS [knowledge of Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian and Coptic is necessary]

Cursus Patrologiae Completus , compiled by Migne

Latin series: 220 volumes

Greek Fathers: about 160 volumes

Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum [an updated form of the Migne series]

Acts of Ancient Ecumenical Councils:

Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima Collectio, edited by Mansi

Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum, edited by Schwartz

Armenian, Syriac and Coptic Writers:

Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium ( about 500 volumes)

Patrologia Orientalis (about 50 volumes)

Menaion

Synaxarion

The Theodosian Code, edited by Theodor Mommsen

The Code of Justinian, edited in Berlin in the Corpus Iuris Civilis, as well as certain supplemental laws known in Latin as Novellae

[M.C. Steenberg]

Just as a brief note on the above listing (http://www.monachos.net/forum/showpost.php?p=63799&postcount=5) of some volumes containing patristic texts in their original languages: namely, that a majority of these are the older first compilations, which in most cases have been supplanted by far better editions.

Nonetheless, things like Migne still form valuable 'places to start' if one is interested in looking at the source texts. If one wishes to look closely and reliably, one needs to go elsewhere.

XB, Dcn Matthew