On the Perdition of the Higher Intellect and on the Image of Light: Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary.

Apocryphal and Esoteric Sources in the Development of Christianity and Judaism: The Eastern Mediterranean, the Near East and Beyond, ed. by I. Dorfmann-Lazarev, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2021. (Serie “Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity”), 2021 The title ‘On the Perdition of the Higher Intellect and on the Image of Light’ (PHI) is given to the treatise that is preserved without any title; its beginning and possibly its end are missing. PHI is known in Slavonic only, though it bears evident marks of being a translation from Greek.
The article includes a research of PHI, its critical edition and tentative translation to English, and comments.