Titus of Bostra

Titus was bishop of Bostra in the Roman province of Arabia in the fourth century. His chief surviving work is Against the Manichees in four books, which argues from reason and Scripture that evil has no independent origin and that God is not its cause. The Greek of the first two books and part of the third survives; the rest is known from a Syriac translation.

Dates

died before 378 (approximate)

See or city

Bostra

Region

Arabia

Also known as

Titus Bostrensis; Titus of Bosra

Notes

Bishop of Bostra in Arabia (Bosra, in modern Syria). Jerome says he wrote under the emperors Jovian and Valentinian and that he died under Valens; his dates are therefore only approximate (not yet checked).

Works

• Against the ManicheesContra Manichaeos · ca. 360s · CPG 3575 (not yet checked)