This volume is the first to make the full text of De lepra by church father Methodius of Olympus (d. 311 CE) available in a critical edition, both in its original language, Greek, and in the much more extensive Old Slavic translation from the tenth century CE. Both text critical editions are supplemented with a German translation and an introduction.

Anna Jouravel, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg; Janina Sieber, Stuttgart; Katharina Bracht, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.