Asterius the Homilist (ca. 300s-400s)

There is a long history with the works listed below which have now been attributed to Asterius the Homilist by Wolfram Kinzig.  Throughout history the 31 homilies on Psalms 1-15 and 18 were attributed to John Chrysostom.  However, the work of Richard and Skard (cf. below) helped to differentiate the material and attribute it to Asterius the Sophist. The jury still wasn't out on whether or not these homilies could have actually belonged to the Asterius of the Arian controversies.  Jean-Baptiste Cotelier argued that they belonged to Asterius of Amaseia, but Kinzig seems to have won the day in designating them as belonging to an "Asterius the Homilist" who would have written the homilies in the late 300s or early 400s.  The only translation into a modern language is Kinzig's German translation.

Critical Editions

Asterius the Homilist.  Asterii Sophistae commentariorum in psalmos quae supersunt.  Symbolae Osloenses, fasc. suppl. 16. Edited by M. Richard.  Oslo: Brøgger, 1956: 3-245. [TLG 2061.001]

Modern Translations

Asterius the Sophist.  Psalmenhomilien.  Translated (German) by Wolfram Kinzig.  Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 2002.

Secondary literature

Richard, Marcel.  "Les Homélies d'Astérius sur les Psaumes 4-7." Revue Biblique44 (1935): 548-558.

Skard, Eiliv.  "Asterios von Amaseia und Asterios der Sophist." Symbolae Osloenses 20 (1940): 86-132.

Richard, Marcel.  "Une Ancienne Collection d'Homélies Grecques sur les Psaumes 1-15." Symbolaw Osloenses 25 (1947): 54-73.

Skard, Eiliv.  "Bemerkungen zu den Aesterios-Texten."  Symbolae Osloenses 27 (1949): 54-69.

Richard, Marcel.  "Le Recueil d'Homélies d'Astérius le Sophiste." Symbolae Osloenses 29 (1952): 24-33.

Richard, Marcel.  "Deux Homélies Inédites du Sophiste Astérius." Symbolae Osloenses 29 (1952): 93-98.

Kinzig, Wolfram.  In Search of Asterius: Studies on the Authorship of the Homilies on the Psalms.  Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1990.

Kinzig, Wolfram. "Asterius the Homilist." In Dictionary of Early Christian Literature.  Edited by Siegmar Döpp and Wilhelm Geerlings, trans. by Matthew O'Connell (New York: Crossroad, 2000): 53-54.