It was published with a Latin version by Nie. Gulonius, 8vo. Paris, 1586, and again in 1603. It is given in the first vol. of the of Ducaeus, in the vol. xi. ed. Paris. 1654; and in the of Gallandius, vol. xi. fol. Venice, 1765, &c.

The Latin version alone appears in some other editions of the

The as it appears in these works, is considered by Fabricius to be mutilated at the commencement ; and his opinion, which is disputed by Gallandius, is corroborated by the greater completeness of a Slavonic MS. of the work in the Royal Library at Berlin, of which one or two passages are given in a Latin version in the last edition of Fabricius. In this Slavonic MS. the archbishop is always called Gregory.

The work is by Pagi regarded as a fiction, and Gallandius significantly leaves it to others to determine mine this point. Cave considers that "some parts of it smack of the credulity of a later age ;" and, indeed, the contents of the work render it likely that it is much interpolated, to say the least; nor is the authorship determined of that portion (if any) which is genuine. Substantially it may be regarded as the production of Gregentius himself, whose arguments, as Barthius thinks, and as the work itself indicates, were taken down at the time by Palladius of Alexandria, whom the archbishop, on his departure for Tephar, had taken with him as his scholasticus. Lambecius ascribes the work to Nonnosus, ambassador of the emperor Justinian to the Homeritae.

According to this work, the disputation of Gregentius with Herban took place at Tephar, in the presence of the king, Abramis, many bishops, a number of Jews, and the whole population of the city : it was terminated by the miraculous appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the infliction of miraculous blindness upon the Jews, who were, however, restored to sight on their believing and being baptized. The king himself was sponsor for Herban, to whom he gave the name of Leo, and whom he enrolled among his councillors. The number of Jews converted and baptized in consequence of these events is stated at 5,500,000 ! Gregentius persuaded Abramius to break up the division of the Jewish converts into tribes, and to mingle them with other Christians, and to order their children, under pain of death, not to marry with any of their own nation, but with Gentile Christians only. By these means, "in course of time" (τῷ χρόνῳ, an expression showing that the passage is not by a contemporary), the Jews were merged in the general population of the country.