Volumes VIII / 4 and 5 include a reconstruction of the first and second version of the second book ( On Man) of the Sacra (Paralella), a florilegium compiled by a monk named John at the beginning of the 7 th century, erroneously attributed to John of Damascus. The version includes 2293 texts taken from the Bible, the Church Fathers, Philo of Alexandria, and Flavius Josephus.

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Tobias Thum, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, Germany.