The Queen of Sheba said to them: 'Listen, my people, to my voice and hear my speech: I desire wisdom, and my heart seeks knowledge. For I am struck by love for wisdom and drawn by the cords of understanding. For wisdom is better than the treasures of gold and silver; wisdom is better than anything created on earth.' This volume contains important pieces of the oldest Christianity, including poems, prayers, sayings, unknown words of Jesus, a letter to martyrs, the Arabic childhood gospel, the Arabic life description of John the Baptist, and the Karsunian Apocalypse of Peter, all from the time before the emergence and spread of Islam. The texts have been newly translated for this edition, some for the first time, from Syriac, Ethiopian, Arabic, and Greek into German.