A two-volume set providing a new edition and translation of one of the most important and controversial texts from early Christianity. It offers a sympathetic understanding of the text, and provides new insights into the structure of the work and the nature of theology as it was practiced in early Christianity. Behr has proven himself to be an able commentator and analyst of early Christian theology in both its Latin and Greek varieties. Here he shows himself also to be a splendid translator of one of the most acclaimed and yet too often unread works of early Christian theology. ... [T]his new edition should prove to be a constant reference point for students of early Christian theology and exegesis and - one might hope - an instigating force for further research upon Origens contribution to theological developments in the third century Christian church.