Appendix K: Selected Bibliography

The works below are a selected list of sources cited or consulted in the book; inclusion does not imply endorsement. For the complete bibliography, see https://thesabbaththeykept.com/bibliography.

Apostolic Constitutions. Translated by James Donaldson. In Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 7, edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.

Athanasius of Alexandria. “Festal Letter 39.” Translated by Archibald Robertson. In vol. 4 of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, 551–552. New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1892.

Bacchiocchi, Samuele. From Sabbath to Sunday: A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday Observance in Early Christianity. Rome: Pontifical Gregorian University Press, 1977.

Bauer, Walter. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd ed. Revised and edited by Frederick William Danker. Based on earlier English editions by William F. Arndt and F. Wilbur Gingrich. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Beyene, Solomon Gebreyes. “The Confession of King Gälawdewos (r. 1540–1559): A Sixteenth-Century Ethiopian Monophysite Document against Jesuit Proselytism.” Aethiopica 25 (2022): 160–181.

“The Christian Sabbath.” Catholic Mirror (Baltimore), September 2, 9, 16, and 23, 1893. Reprinted as The Christian Sabbath (Baltimore: Catholic Mirror, 1893).

Chrysostom, John. Discourses Against Judaizing Christians. Translated by Paul W. Harkins. Fathers of the Church, Vol. 68. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1979.

Codex Justinianus 3.12.2 (March 7, 321). In Corpus Iuris Civilis, edited by Paul Krueger. Berlin: Weidmann, 1877.

Council in Trullo (Quinisext Council). Canon 55. 692 AD. In The Seven Ecumenical Councils, edited with notes by Henry R. Percival, vol. 14 of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, series edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1900. Available at: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3814.htm.

Council of Laodicea. Canon 29 (commonly dated c. 363–364). In Charles Joseph Hefele, A History of the Councils of the Church, from the Original Documents, vol. 2, 316. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1876. https://archive.org/details/ahistoryofthecou02hefeuoft. Translated also in Henry R. Percival, ed., Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 2nd ser., vol. 14. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3806.htm.

Fiaccadori, Gianfranco. “Ewostatewos.” In Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 2, edited by Siegbert Uhlig, 469–472. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005.

Hopko, Thomas. The Orthodox Faith: An Elementary Handbook on the Orthodox Church. 4 vols. New York: Department of Religious Education, Orthodox Church in America, 1972–1976.

Hussey, J. M. The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.

Irenaeus of Lyon. Adversus Haereses (Against Heresies). c. 180 AD. Translated by Alexander Roberts and William H. Rambaut. In Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885. Available at: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103.htm.

Josephus, Flavius. Antiquities of the Jews. Translated by William Whiston. In The Works of Josephus. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1987. Also available at University of Chicago: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/ant-20.html.

Justin Martyr. First Apology. Translated by Marcus Dods and George Reith. In Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885.

Metzger, Bruce M., and Bart D. Ehrman. The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Newton, Isaac. Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John. London: J. Darby and T. Browne, 1733.

Percival, Henry R., ed. The Seven Ecumenical Councils. Vol. 14 of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series. 1900. Reprint, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1956.

Schmemann, Alexander. Introduction to Liturgical Theology. 3rd ed. Translated by Asheleigh E. Moorhouse. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1986.

Socrates Scholasticus. Ecclesiastical History. Translated by A. C. Zenos. In vol. 2 of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series. New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890.

Sozomen. Ecclesiastical History. Translated by Chester D. Hartranft. In vol. 2 of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series. New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890.

Starr, Joshua. “An Eastern Christian Sect: The Athinganoi.” Harvard Theological Review 29, no. 2 (1936): 93–106.

Taddesse Tamrat. Church and State in Ethiopia, 1270–1527. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.

Timotheus, presbyter of Constantinople. De iis qui ad ecclesiam accedunt sive de receptione haereticorum. In J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologia Graeca, vol. 86a, cols. 12–69, esp. 33–34. Paris: Migne, 1865. The work’s date is disputed.

Ullendorff, Edward. “The Confessio Fidei of King Claudius of Ethiopia.” Journal of Semitic Studies 32, no. 1 (1987): 159–176.