- Table of Contents (page 5)
- Introduction to the present edition (page 7)
- Bibliography: Bardaisan of Edessa since 1966 (page 11)
- List of Abbreviations (page 19)
- Chapter 1: Introduction. The Research and its Problems (page 23)
- The First Period: 1855-1897 (page 25)
- The Second Period: 1897-1932 (page 49)
- The Third Period: 1932 to the Present (page 74)
- Chapter 2: The Book of the Laws of Countries (page 91)
- The Problem from the Point of View of Literary History (page 91)
- Bardaisan's Conception of God, Man, and the World, According to the "Book of the Laws of the Countries" (page 110)
- Chapter 3: The Cosmology (page 131)
- The First Cosmological Tradition (page 140)
- The Second Cosmological Tradition (page 148)
- The Third Cosmological Tradition (page 152)
- The Muslim, and the Remaining Christian Arabic Traditions (page 158)
- Chapter 4: Ephrem Syrus on Bardaisan (page 165)
- Cosmology (page 168)
- Bardaisan's Hymns and Mythology (page 182)
- Anthropology (page 192)
- Fate and Astrology (page 197)
- Bardaisan's Personality, his Followers, and his Writings (page 201)
- Chapter 5: The Other Traditions Regarding Bardaisan and the Bardesanites (page 207)
- The Greek Tradition (page 208)
- The Further Syriac Tradition (page 229)
- The Arabic Tradition (page 244)
- The Armenian Tradition (page 254)
- The Other Works Ascribed to Bardaisan (page 255)
- Chapter 6: Conclusions: Bardaisan and the Bardesanites in the Setting of their Times (page 261)
- Edessa in the Second Century of our Era (page 262)
- Bardaisan's Life (page 265)
- Bardaisan's Teachings (page 267)
- Bardaisan's Relations to Marcion and Mani (page 274)
- The Fortunes of the Bardesanites (page 276)
- Bibliography (page 279)
- Index of Subjects (page 303)
- Index of Names (page 317)
- Index of Modern Authors (page 321)
