bibliography
The bibliography being developed here serves as a resonant space for this web project. From classical primary sources and philosophical drafts to more recent works in natural science, quantum and information theory, and metamodern consciousness research—each of these voices contributes in its own way to a deeper understanding of being.
The selection is naturally “in progress” and deliberately kept open to show that the question of the origin, meaning and structure of being is not tied to a single discipline, movement or institution.
Primary sources
Elberfeld Bible 1905. The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments according to the Elberfeld translation. 1905 edition. Elberfeld: R. Brockhaus Verlag, 1905. Public domain.
Luther Bible. The Bible or the entire Holy Scripture of the Old and New Testaments according to the German translation of D. Martin Luther. Revised edition 1910. Stuttgart: German Bible Society, 1910. Public domain.
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's special Command. Appointed to be read in churches. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1769 (ed. Benjamin Blayney).
The Peshitta. The Syriac Text of the Old Testament. Leiden: Brill, 1972– (in the series “The Old Testament in Syriac according to the Peshitta Version”).
The New Testament in Syriac. The Peshitta Version. Leiden: Brill, 1905 (frequently cited, with later reprints).
Lamsa, George M.: Holy Bible from Ancient Eastern Manuscripts. Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated from the Peshitta, the Authorized Bible of the Church of the East.
Philadelphia: AJ Holman Co., 1933 (rev. ed. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957).
On Parmenides of Elea (ca. 515-445 BC):
Diels, Hermann / Kranz, Walther (eds.): The Fragments of the Pre-Socratics. 3 volumes. 6th revised edition. Berlin: Weidmann, 1951–1952 (numerous reprints, most recently Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter).
Nag Hammadi German. The writings from Nag Hammadi and the Coptic Epistles of Paul.
Edited by Hans-Martin Schenke, Hans-Gebhard Bethge, Ursula Ulrike Kaiser, and Christoph Markschies. 2nd, revised and improved edition.
Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2001. (XVII, 1062 pages, ISBN 3-11-017182-6).
Philo of Alexandria: Works in German translation.
Edited by Leopold Cohn et al., later by Leopold Cohn, Paul Wendland, later also expanded by Horacio E. Lona, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer et al.
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1962 ff. (several volumes, ongoing).
Origen: Four Books of Principles (De principiis).
Translated, introduced and explained by Herwig Görgemanns and Heinrich Karpp.
(Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1976; reprinted several times, ISBN 3-534-05705-2).
Origen: Against Celsus (Contra Celsum).
Translated by Horacio E. Lona. Freiburg i. Br. / Basel / Vienna: Herder, 1981 (Library of the Ancient Church Fathers, Vol. 8).
Origen: Homilies on Genesis and Exodus.
Translated and introduced by WA Baehrens.
In: Greek Christian writers (GCS), Vol. 6.
Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1920 (reprint Berlin: de Gruyter).
Augustine: Confessions.
Translated and introduced by Joseph Bernhart.
Library of the Church Fathers, 1st Series, Volume 22.
Munich: Kösel, 1917 (reprinted several times, most recently Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog / Altenmünster: Patristic Texts and Studies, Reprints).
Meister Eckhart: The German and Latin works.
Published on behalf of the German Research Foundation.
Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne: W. Kohlhammer, 1936 ff.
Spinoza, Baruch de: Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata (Ethics presented in geometric order). First published posthumously in 1677 in: Posthumous opera. Amsterdam: Jan Rieuwertsz, 1677. Complete German edition: Baruch de Spinoza – Ethics. Translated and edited by Jacob Stern. Hamburg: Meiner Verlag, 2009. 419 pp.
Swedenborg, Emanuel: From heaven, from hell, and from spirits. Based on his experiences and observations. Translated from the Latin by Johann Friedrich Immanuel Tafel. Stuttgart: Verlag der J.F. Steinkopf'schen Buchhandlung, 1840. 576 pp. (Original title: De Caelo et Ejus Mirabilibus et de Inferno, ex Auditis et Visis. London, 1758.)
Eddy, Mary Baker: Science and Health.
First edition, 1000 copies self-published, 1875. Widely available online in the public domain.
Eddy, Mary Baker: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Boston. 1910.
Kappeler, Max: The seven synonyms for God. Zurich 1983.
