F. C. Conybeare

Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare was a British orientalist and a Fellow of University College, Oxford. He was one of the leading European scholars of Armenian at the turn of the 20th century and also worked on early Christian writings, church history and ancient ideas about demons.

In October 1898 he published an English translation of the Testament of Solomon in the Jewish Quarterly Review. The Testament is a Greek text, probably from the early centuries CE, in which King Solomon uses a magic ring from the archangel Michael to summon and question demons and force them to help build the Temple. In the end Solomon desires a foreign woman, sacrifices locusts to foreign gods and loses his power.

Conybeare also translated Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana for the Loeb Classical Library (1912) and wrote Myth, Magic, and Morals (1909). His translation of the Testament is public domain.