DOCSLIB.ORG

Bulletin D'information Et De Liaison

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Bulletin D'information Et De Liaison ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE D’ÉTUDES PATRISTIQUES International Association of Patristic Studies Bulletin d’information et de liaison 44 (2010) TABLE DES MATIÈRES VIE DE L’ASSOCIATION De la part de la Présidente. De la part du Secrétaire. Cotisation et Adhésion. Statuts de l’AIEP / IAPS comme modifiés à Oxford 2003 (texte français et traduction anglaise). Liste des membres du Conseil élus en 2003. Liste des correspondants nationaux et du Comité exécutif. Liste des nouveaux membres. Liste des membres, anciens membres et collègues décédés. Membres par pays 5 BULLETIN BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE: Travaux récemment parus ou en préparation A – Bibliographie et histoire de la recherche 26 B – Ouvrages généraux 29 I – Histoire du christianisme ancien 0. Christianisme et société dans l’antiquité tardive 30 1. Histoire des communautés, des institutions, des périodes, des régions 35 2. Histoire des doctrines (théologie) 48 3. Liturgie et hymnographie 61 4. Culture antique et culture chrétienne 67 5. Hagiographie et histoire de la spiritualité 70 6. Art et archéologie 82 7. Épigraphie 85 8. Codicologie (manuscrits, catalogues, microfilms, paléographie) 86 9. Papyrologie 87 10. Prosopographie 87 II – Langues et littérature chrétiennes 1. Histoire des langues et des littératures classiques et orientales 88 2. Genres littéraires 91 3. Vocabulaire et stylistique 93 4. Thèmes littéraires 94 5. Patristique et Moyen Âge 95 6. Patristique et humanisme, Renaissance et Réforme, Temps modernes 98 7. Actualité des Pères 101 III – La Bible et les Pères 0. Ouvrages généraux 104 1. Christianisme et judaïsme 106 2. Ancien Testament 108 3. Nouveau Testament 114 4. Apocryphes, pseudépigraphes 122 5. Gnose, manichéisme, etc. 129 IV – Auteurs et textes (ordre alphabétique des noms et des titres latins) 136 3 Critères éditoriaux pour le Bulletin / Editorial Guidelines for the Bulletin 270 NOUVELLES ET COMMUNICATIONS A – Congrès, Colloques 272 B – Mélanges 274 C – Initiatives diverses 274 D – Instrumenta studiorum (programmes de collection) 273 E – Nouvelles de Grèce 274 F – Dissertations en cours 275 SUPPLÉMENT: ANNUAIRE 2007-2008 – ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA Nouvelles adresses et nouveaux champs de recherche 277 Nouveaux membres 280 4 VIE DE L’ASSOCIATION De la part de la Présidente / From the President Dear Colleagues, It is a great pleasure to write this letter as a preface to what is undoubtedly the biggest and best Bulletin so far! Membership of the Association continues to grow apace and its international presence to spread to hitherto unrepresented areas of the world. This is both a challenge and a cause for celebration. I will be writing to members of these countries to see if we can find National Correspondents prepared to do the indispensable work of liaison and the passing on of information, bibliography and dues, all of which form the backbone of the Association and make possible the collaboration and contacts. As always, I am conscious of, and very grateful for, the excellent work which our existing Correspondents continue to do in this respect. We are hoping to bring further focus to the global network of communication about all things Patristic, which the association was originally set up to further, by organising a conference in 2013 to mark the 50th Anniversary of its foundation. Of course, in the 21st century, the internet, email, our website and the new database of membership which our Vice President, Theo de Bruyn, has worked hard to set up this year, all make this task more straightforward. But nothing can replace dialogue, discussion, and personal communication. A conference at which we can meet to reflect together on the relevance of our work in Patristics for religious and cultural studies seemed an appropriate way to encourage this. More details will be forthcoming as it takes shape. 2011 marks the occasion of the 16th Oxford International Patristics Conference, an occasion at which many of our members will be present, and when we will have the opportunity to hold a General Meeting, as well as a Council of elected representatives to discuss the various aspects of the life of the Association and to hold elections for a new executive. In accordance with our aim to encourage and support young scholars in Patristics we are again intending to offer 20 bursaries to cover the conference fee and accommodation in Oxford during the conference. I will be getting in touch with National Correspondents soon to organise these matters. The executive committee continues to work hard on behalf of the Association and I would like to record my heartfelt thanks to Lorenzo Perrone, for his outstanding and committed work as General Secretary, without whom membership would falter and the Bulletin would not appear; to Theo de Bruyn, who has gone well beyond anything that could reasonably be expected of a Vice President in setting up the website and, more recently, the database of the Association; to Benoît Gain for always ensuring that the Association is aware of, and observes, its statutes, and for steering it through the complexities of French law; to Samuel Rubenson for his hard work in securing the robust financial good health of the Association through his careful and painstaking work in making sure that dues are collected. I look forward to seeing many of you at the General Meeting or Council of the Association in Oxford next year. Meanwhile, please do not hesitate to get in touch with any comments or ideas you might have about the general life of the Association, or any matters which you would like to see included on the agenda of our General Meeting. Carol Harrison 5 VIE DE L’ASSOCIATION De la part du Secrétaire / From the Secretary Dear Colleagues, as you will see from the long list of new members, who were admitted into AIEP/IAPS at the meeting of the Executive Committee (Lund, 27-28 August 2010), the positive trend in membership has been maintained in the past year. The new members reflect at its best the international character of our association and provide an encouraging perspective on the development of Patristic studies throughout the world. They are indeed in large part younger researchers who are progressing in their studies of the history and literature of ancient Christianity in different countries, some of these being represented for the first time within our association (Montenegro, Puerto Rico and the Ukraine). The growth in membership has proved remarkable, especially in countries like Argentina, Georgia and Poland, which are actively engaged in furthering our studies. The general assembly held in Cracow on the occasion of the “Colloquium Origenianum Decimum” (2 September 2009) helped to introduce many colleagues in Eastern Europe to the activities of AIEP/IAPS and to promote membership. The Executive Committee will try again to take advantage of future conferences at international or national level to make people acquainted with the aims of our association and stimulate exchange of information and cooperation among Patristic scholars. We rely as always on the support of our national correspondents. It is not easy to maintain relations within such a large international network, though our new website has already contributed to the task and will do it in a more efficient and systematic way in the near future. I would like to thank all the national correspondents who have been in touch with me during the last year providing me with information about their countries, encouraging membership, collecting bibliographic information and the dues. The regular payment of the dues is an essential criterion for evaluating the state of health of an association. Thanks to the excellent work done by our treasurer, Samuel Rubenson, and the constant cooperation of some of our national correspondents the situation has become more and more ordered. Regrettably, we again had to delete a few members who had not paid their dues for several years. We trust the national correspondents will continue their efforts to assure regular payments, which will provide more financial resources for the initiatives of our association. The amount of bibliographic information contained in the Bulletin this year obviously mirrors itself the present state of AIEP/IAPS and hopefully of Patristic studies throughout the world. In several cases the support of the national correspondents has contributed to it in a substantial way, though I am sure that some countries are still under-represented in our bibliographic records. It will be important to fill eventually these omissions in the next issue of the Bulletin, to be published on the occasion of the 16th International Conference on Patristic Studies at Oxford. With view to this unique forum of Patristic scholarship we reckon also on having a new edition of our directory (Annuaire), thanks to the help of the website. Finally, it will perhaps sound strange to insist on it in the epoch of websites and databases; nevertheless let me request again information, criticisms and suggestions for our Bulletin. I expect them both from the national correspondents and the individual members, to make of it more and more of an attractive and useful overview of patristic studies throughout the world. Lorenzo Perrone 6 VIE DE L’ASSOCIATION COTISATION ET ADHÉSION Cotisation 2010 Le montant de la cotisation annuelle est fixé à € 14 pour tous. La cotisation suit l’année civile (de janvier à décembre) et il serait bon, pour faciliter le travail des trésoriers que les membres s'acquittent de leur cotisation au printemps de l'année en cours (janvier – mars). Nous remercions d’avance ceux qui n’attendent pas un rappel pour nous envoyer leur cotisation. Les trésoriers continueront à examiner avec bienveillance toute situation particulière qu’on voudra bien leur faire connaître. En revanche, sauf dispense, “sera radié ipso facto, tout membre qui n’aura pas acquitté sa cotisation pendant plus de deux années consécutives” (Statuts, art.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Paganism and Idolatry in Near Eastern Christianity
    Durham E-Theses 'The Gods of the Nations are Idols' (Ps. 96:5): Paganism and Idolatry in Near Eastern Christianity NICHOLS, SEBASTIAN,TOBY How to cite: NICHOLS, SEBASTIAN,TOBY (2014) 'The Gods of the Nations are Idols' (Ps. 96:5): Paganism and Idolatry in Near Eastern Christianity, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10616/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk 2 Sebastian Toby Nichols ‘The Gods of the Nations are Idols’ (Ps. 96:5): Paganism and Idolatry in Near Eastern Christianity This thesis will explore the presentation in Christian literature of gentile religious life in the Roman Near East in the first few centuries AD. It will do so by performing a close study of three sources – the Syriac Oration of Meliton the Philosopher, the Syriac translation of the Apology of Aristides, and the Greek Address to the Greeks of Tatian.
    [Show full text]
  • The Virgin-Martyr and the Emergence of the Early Christian Heroine: a Study of the Female Protagonist in the Acts of Paul and Thecla
    The Virgin-Martyr and the Emergence of the Early Christian Heroine: A study of the female protagonist in the Acts of Paul and Thecla Violina Yankova-Ingvarsson MA Religious Roots of Europe 120 credits UiO Faculty of Theology 06.08.2020 1 ABSTRACT The broader interest of this study is linked to the manifestations and perceptions of the ‘roles’ of women in the socio-cultural landscape of the Greco-Roman late antiquity. In particular, it attempts to understand how they can be situated in relation to the emergence of the identity constructing rhetoric of early Christian discourse in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. With the development of poststructuralist and feminist perspectives in the last decades of the 20th century, the scholarly interest and interpretative efforts - in the field of cultural studies in general and religious studies in particular - have been increasingly focusing on the ‘non-canonical’, ‘peripheral’, and the ‘grass-root level’ phenomena, and respectively, engaging with the study of the ‘history’ and ‘roles’ of women. These ongoing research efforts - while deconstructing the grand-narratives of the scholarly positivism of the previous centuries - had significantly widened the body of texts included in the scope of scholarly investigation, amongst which, the various texts usually gathered under the complex term of early Christian apocrypha. In the current study I concentrate on one of the probably most popular in antiquity - and in depth researched by today’s scholarship - examples of this ‘genre’: The Acts of Paul and Thecla. Reading through the captivating narrative of Thecla’s struggles I will try to detect the textual features of the female protagonist that can be meaningful in the larger perspective of the early Christian discourse and its paradigmatic notions of renunciation and soteriological suffering.
    [Show full text]
  • Out of Nothing: a History of Creation Ex Nihilo in Early Christian Thought
    Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011 Volume 17 Number 2 Article 9 2005 Out of Nothing: A History of Creation ex Nihilo in Early Christian Thought Blake T. Ostler Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Ostler, Blake T. (2005) "Out of Nothing: A History of Creation ex Nihilo in Early Christian Thought," Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011: Vol. 17 : No. 2 , Article 9. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr/vol17/iss2/9 This Mormon Studies is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011 by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Title Out of Nothing: A History of Creation ex Nihilo in Early Christian Thought Author(s) Blake T. Ostler Reference FARMS Review 17/2 (2005): 253–320. ISSN 1550-3194 (print), 2156-8049 (online) Abstract Review of “Craftsman or Creator? An Examination of the Mormon Doctrine of Creation and a Defense of Creatio ex nihilo” (2002), and Creation out of Nothing: A Biblical, Philosophical, and Scientific Exploration (2004), by Paul Copan and William Lane Craig. Out of Nothing: A History of Creation ex Nihilo in Early Christian Thought Blake T. Ostler n their contribution to The New Mormon Challenge entitled I“Craftsman or Creator? An Examination of the Mormon Doctrine of Creation and a Defense of Creatio ex nihilo,” Paul Copan and William Lane Craig assert, among other things, that the notion of creation ex nihilo—creation out of nothing—is biblical.1 For good 1.
    [Show full text]
  • Copyright © 2018 John Allen Dearing III All Rights Reserved. the Southern
    Copyright © 2018 John Allen Dearing III All rights reserved. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has permission to reproduce and disseminate this document in any form by any means for purposes chosen by the Seminary, including, without limitation, preservation or instruction. WILL NOT RETURN VOID: THE USE OF SCRIPTURE IN EVANGELISTIC WRITINGS IN THE GREEK PATRISTIC TRADITION __________________ A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary __________________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy __________________ by John Allen Dearing III December 2018 APPROVAL SHEET WILL NOT RETURN VOID: THE USE OF SCRIPTURE IN EVANGELISTIC WRITINGS IN THE GREEK PATRISTIC TRADITION John Allen Dearing III Read and Approved by: __________________________________________ Timothy K. Beougher (Chair) __________________________________________ Adam W. Greenway __________________________________________ Michael A. G. Haykin Date ______________________________ To my loving, supportive wife, Andrea, and our children Jack, Charis, and Lizzy. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page PREFACE . vi Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION . 1 Development of Evangelistic Writing in the Ancient Church . 6 Statement of the Problem . 9 Definitions . 12 Research Methodology . 15 2. THE USE OF SCRIPTURE IN THE EVANGELISTIC WRITINGS OF JUSTIN MARTYR . 19 Biography . 20 Justin’s Theology of Scripture . 25 Examination of Justin’s Use of Scripture in Evangelism . 38 Conclusion . 42 3. THE USE OF SCRIPTURE IN THE EVANGELISTIC WRITINGS OF ORIGEN . 43 Alexandrian Thought in the Time of Origen . 44 Biography . 45 Origen’s Theology of Scripture . 51 Origen’s Use of Scripture in Against Celsus . 64 Conclusion . 70 4. THE USE OF SCRIPTURE IN THE EVANGELISTIC WRITINGS OF ATHANASIUS . 71 Alexandrian Thought in the Time of Athanasius .
    [Show full text]
  • The Apology of Aristides on Behalf of the Christians
    FROM -THE- LIBRARY- OF - - KG N RAD - BURDACH Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from Microsoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/apologyofaristidOOarisrich V>£>»T^ Sap&t^^ •:\<ui3 .t^«tvi«l rCdUw^ TtlDnt<' COD. SINAIT. SYE. XVI. GA 19—v^ 22 nostrae editionis TEXTS AND STUDIES CONTBIBUTIONS TO BIBLICAL AND PATRISTIC LITERATURE EDITED BY J. ARMITAGE ROBINSON B.D. FELLOW OF Christ's college Cambridge VOL. I. No. 1. THE APOLOGY OF AEISTIDES SECOND EDITION CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1893 Eoution: C. J. CLAY and SONS, CAMBEIDGE UNIVEKSITY PKESS WAKEHOUSE, AVE MAEIA LANE. (CambrilJfie: DEIGHTON, BELL AND CO. ILeipjiQ: F. A. BROCKHAUS. l^ebj gork: MACMILLAN AND CO. THE APOLOGY OF AEISTIDES ON BEHALF OF THE CHRISTIANS FROM A SYRIAC MS. PRESERVED ON MOUNT SINAI EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND TRANSLATION BY J. RENDEL HARRIS M.A. FELLOW OF CLARE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE AND UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN PALAEOGRAPHY WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING THE MAIN PORTION OF THE ORIGINAL GHEEK TEXT BY J. ARMITAGE ROBINSON B.D. FELLOW AND ASSISTANT TUTOR OF CHRIST's COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SECOND EDITION CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1893 [All Rights reserved] : Cambriljge PKINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. AND RONS, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. SURDACH PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. r 1HE first part of this tract contains the Syriac text of the lost I -L Apology of Aristides, accompanied by such comments and elucidations as I have been able to give to the subject. It is my first venture in Syriac, and I am thankful to my learned friends who have from time to time assisted me with suggestions and criticisms for the elimination of some of the more glaring errors.
    [Show full text]
  • The Apology Aristides the Philosopher
    The Apology of Aristides the Philosopher. THE APOLOGY 257 of ARISTIDES THE PHILOSOPHER TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK AND FROM THE SYRIAC VERSION in PARALLEL COLUMNS. by D. M. KAY, B.Sc., B.D., Assistant to the Professor of Semitic Languages in the University of Edinburgh. 495 Introduction. The Apology of Aristides. ———————————— 259 Introduction. ———————————— The Church Histories, hitherto in dealing with early Christian literature, have given Aristides along with Quadratus the first place in the list of lost apologists. It was known that there had been such early defenders of the faith, and that Quadratus had seen persons who had been miraculously healed by Christ; but beyond this little more could be said. To Justin Martyr, who flourished about a.d. 150, belonged the honour of heading the series of apologists whose works are extant, viz., Tatian, Melito, Athenagoras, Theophilus, the author of the Epistle to Diognetus, who all belonged to the second century and wrote in Greek; and Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Arnobius, and Lactantius, who wrote in Latin, and Clement and Origen who wrote in Greek, during the third century. While Christianity was winning its way to recognition in the Roman empire, these writers tried to disprove the gross calumnies current about Christians, to enlighten rulers and magistrates as to the real character and conduct of the adherents of the new religion, and to remove the prejudice which led to the violent persecutions of the populace. They also endeavoured to commend Christianity to “the cultured among its despisers,” by showing that it is philosophy as well as revelation, that it can supply the answers sought by philosophy, and is unlike human wisdom in being certain because divinely revealed.
    [Show full text]
  • THE THEOLOGY of POLITICAL POWER an Historical Approach to the Relationship Between Religion and Politics
    THE THEOLOGY OF POLITICAL POWER An Historical Approach to the Relationship between Religion and Politics PART 2: RUSSIA AND THE WEST (to 1789) Vladimir Moss © Copyright: Vladimir Moss, 2011. All Rights Reserved. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................4 IV. THE RUSSIAN AUTOCRACY: KIEV AND MOSCOW .............................5 Church and State in Kievan Rus’ ..........................................................................5 The Breakup of Kievan Rus’ ................................................................................11 Autocracy restored: St. Andrew of Bogolyubovo.................................................14 Russia between the Hammer and the Anvil ........................................................19 The Rise of Muscovy............................................................................................21 Russia and the Council ........................................................................................27 The Third Rome ...................................................................................................30 The Heresy of the Judaizers..................................................................................38 Possessors and Non-Possessors ...........................................................................46 St. Maximus the Greek ........................................................................................50 Ivan the Terrible: (1) The Orthodox Tsar............................................................52
    [Show full text]
  • The Sinaitic Palimpsest of the Syriac Gospels
    THE SINAITIC PALIMPSEST OF THE SYRIAC GOSPELS. AMONG the many events which have made this generation memorable in the history of mankind, will certainly be reckoned, hereafter, the rich and unexpected discoveries which have thrown such a flood of light upon the origins and the true character of our sacred literature, both Jewish and Christian. The monuments and inscriptions of various ancient races, and especially of Egypt, Assyria, and Baby­ lonia, have furnished us with information unattainable during many silent centuries. Palestine exploration has been rewarded with results which have added new and undreamed of precision to Scripture archroology and geo­ graphy. In such remarkable "finds" as the Moabite Stone, the Siloam Inscription, and the inscription on the Chel for­ bidding any Gentile, on pain of death, to set foot within the most sacred precincts of the Temple, we have records which may have been actually seen by the eyes of King Jehoshaphat, of King Hezekiah, and of our Lord and His Apostles. As regards the Old Testament, since it has been subjected to the combined microscope and spectrum analy­ sis of historic and linguistic criticism, we make a perfectly sober statement when we say that we are, in all probability, better acquainted with the structure and characteristics of the ancient Jewish literature-not only than any of the greatest Jewish Rabbis, not only than Hille! or Aquiba-but even than Esra himself and bis successors in the rather shadowy" Great Synagogue," living as they did at an epoch when tradition had already become dim and defective, and VOL. I.
    [Show full text]
  • Meliton's Apology Is a Short Work, Extant Only in Syriac, in a Sixth- Or Seventh- Century Manuscript
    THE APOLOGY OF PS.-MELITON Jane L. Lightfoot Ps.-Meliton's Apology is a short work, extant only in Syriac, in a sixth- or seventh- century manuscript. It is not at all well known. The work itself, which purports to be an example of early Christian apologetic, is a curiosity, as will emerge below. But the real curiosity is a chapter which is packed with information about pagan cults - cults to which the author applies a version of Euhemerism, although again a rather unusual one. Several of his cults are set in the Roman Near East, and it is scholars of this area who have paid the work the little attention that it has received. The author seems to have access to interesting and far-flung information, although it is mediated through a highly individual interpretative bias. The following study is an attempt to make the text more widely- known, and as a protreptic to further study, for there are certainly more things to be discovered about it, and it would benefit from the attention of scholars in more than one area. The first part of the paper considers the text as a whole and raises some general questions about the Euhemerist chapter. The second part, which is prefaced with an adapted version of William Cureton's translation for ease of reference, provides a provisional commentary on the Euhemerist chapter. Since the author's approach is anecdotal, I have used the term 'historiola' for each entry. PART ONE I. WHAT IS IT? The main body of the text consists of a harangue purportedly delivered to an emperor called Antoninus.
    [Show full text]
  • Alchemy and Exegesis from Antioch to Constantinople, 11Th Century By
    Matter Redeemed: Alchemy and Exegesis from Antioch to Constantinople, 11th century by Alexandre Mattos Roberts A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Maria Mavroudi, Chair Professor Susanna Elm Professor Asad Ahmed Professor Michael Cooperson Spring 2015 © 2015 by Alexandre M. Roberts Abstract Matter Redeemed: Alchemy and Exegesis from Antioch to Constantinople, 11th century by Alexandre Mattos Roberts Doctor of Philosophy in History University of California, Berkeley Professor Maria Mavroudi, Chair This dissertation examines how scholars in eleventh-century Constantinople and Antioch (un- der Byzantine rule, 969-1084) understood matter and its transformation. It argues that matter, a concept inherited from ancient philosophy, continued to be a fertile and malleable idea-complex endowed with cultural and religious meaning in medieval thought-worlds of the Eastern Mediter- ranean. The first three chapters form a case study on the unpublished Arabic translations oflatean- tique Christian texts by the 11th-century Byzantine Orthodox deacon ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Faḍl of An- tioch (fl. c.1052). They proceed by increasing specificity: chapter 1 surveys Ibn al-Faḍl’s Greek- to-Arabic translations; chapter 2 turns to one of these translations, of a famous and highly influ- ential commentary on the first chapter of the Book of Genesis by Basil of Caesarea (c.330–?379), his Homilies on the Hexaemeron; and chapter 3 reads Ibn al-Faḍl’s marginalia to his translation of Basil’s Hexaemeron. Together, they provide insight into a culturally Byzantine milieu in which the primary language of communication was Arabic, exploring how intellectuals in that context understood matter, where this understanding came from, and why it resonated in this cityatthe edge of the empire.
    [Show full text]
  • 6.9.2021 Apostolic Fathers 7 the Apology of Quadratus
    6.9.2021 Midweek Meditation, Week 8 Following Jesus with the Apostolic Fathers Romans 6:5, 14:8; 1 Peter 3:15 Pastor Timothy McKenzie “The words of our Savior were always present” Week 8: Quadratus - Confessing the abiding presence of Christ This week wraps up the current series on the Apostolic Fathers, as we examine the Roman world and an early church figure named Quadratus, who is considered to be the first Christian apologist. The Apology of Quadratus is very nearly completely lost, save for only one brief fragment preserved in the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius. In that excerpt below, Eusebius also mentions another early church figure named Aristides, thought to be the second Christian apologist. Though a surviving copy of the Apology by Quadratus has never been found, the Apology of Aristides was found in 1889 by British scholar Rendel Harris at the Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai. Though Eusebius wrote that Quadratus had presented his Apology to the Roman emperor Hadrian (c. 124-125), modern scholars continue to debate whether Quadratus wrote the Apology to Hadrian or to his successor Antonius Pius. It has also been suggested that the Epistle to Diognetus, which we read in week 6 is actually the Apology by Quadratus. Thus, though Eusebius possessed copies of these apologies by Quadratus and Aristides, not having surviving copies in the present has left much ambiguity to the dating of these writings, their content, and the Roman emperor(s) to whom they were written. Both Quadratus and Aristides wrote in the early second century when Christianity was growing rapidly in the Roman world.
    [Show full text]
  • St. Aristidis the Philosopher September 13Th
    St. Aristidis the Philosopher September 13th Very little is known of Aristides, except for the introductory infor- mation given by Eusebius of Caesareaand Saint Jerome. Accord- ing to their account, Aristides practiced philosophy in Athens, where he lived, prior to and after his conversion to Christianity. Eusebius writes in his Ecclesiastical History "Aristides also, a faith- ful disciple of our religion, has left an Apology of the faith dedi- cated to Hadrian."[1] Eusebius and Jerome both state that the Apology was given to Hadrian at the same time at Quadratus delivered his own apology. This suggests that Aristides gave his apology during Hadrian's reign (r. 117–138) as emperor of Rome, which supports the theory of Aristides died between the years 133–134 AD. It is also supported by the express language of the Apology in the Armenian version. It is contradicted only by the second superscription to the Syriac ver- sion, which says that the Apology was given to Emperor Antoninus Pius in the year 140. If this is taken to mean that it was delivered in person by Aristides, it would rule out the dating of Aristides's death in 133-134 AD. It has been suggested that Eusebius was confused by the fact that Antoninus Pius had adopted the name "Hadrianus" (Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius) and believed it was Hadrian to whom the Apology was given, and further that Jerome had never read the Apology and copied Eusebius's mis- take accidentally.[2] But Jerome tells us that theApology was extant in his day, and he gives an account of its contents.
    [Show full text]