04 — The Second Part and Beyond

The modern rediscovery of Isaac: Sebastian Brock’s identification in 1983 of a complete copy of the long-lost “Second Part” in an Oxford manuscript, and the publication of the “Third Part” by Sabino Chialà in 2011 — corpora the Byzantine tradition never received, containing both Isaac’s deepest reflection and his most controversial chapters. The questions of attestation and authenticity that come with newly recovered texts.

Files

File	Description
the-rediscovered-parts.md	The discovery and edition of the Second Part (Brock 1995) and the Third Part (Chialà 2011); the controversial chapters
what-belongs-to-isaac.md	Attestation and authenticity: what is securely Isaac’s, what entered the Greek under his name, and where scholars still differ

See Also

• 03 — The Ascetical Homilies — the First Part, the only corpus the Greek tradition knew
• 07 — The Question of Universal Hope — the controversial chapters of the Second Part
• Master README — the collection overview