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Acta Petri. Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar zu den Actus Vercellenses. Herausgegeben von Marietheres Döhler (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 171), -Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2018, XIV + 382 pp., ISBN 978-3-11-049464-8, € 119.95 (hb).—New of the 7th c. Latin text from Vercellensis Bibl. Capitol. 158, with extensive in- troduction, apparatus criticus, German translation, extensive , and supplemented by the texts from the Greek parallel tradition, two photo’s of MSS pages, extensive and fine indices. Originally dissertation Humboldt University at Berlin; Doktorvater Christoph Markschies. Bjelland Kartzow, Marianne, The Slave Metaphor and Gendered Enslavement in Early Christian Discourse: Double Trouble Embodied (Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World), -New York: Routledge 2018, xiii + 167 pp., ISBN 978-0-8153-7465-7, £ 115 (hb).—‘… rethinks the potential meaning of the slavery metaphor in early Christian discourse by use of a variety of texts, read with a whole set of theoretical tools taken from metaphor theory and intersec- tional gender studies, in particular. It also takes seriously the contemporary context of modern slavery, where slavery has re-appeared as a term to name trafficking, gendered violence, and inhuman power systems.’ Collatio Carthaginensis: Collatio Carthaginensis anni 411: Gesta Collationis Carthaginensis; Augustinus, Breviculus collationis; Augustinus, Ad Donatistas post collationem. Ediert von Clemens Weidmann (Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 104), Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2018, VI + 418 pp., ISBN 978-3-11-046967-7, € 109.95 (hb).—Meticulous new edition of the texts in the renowned series, now finely produced by house De Gruyter: ‘Es gibt keinen anderen Text aus der Antike, über dessen Entstehungsgeschichte wir ähnlich gut informiert waren wie über den der Gesta collationis Carthaginensis. (…) Für die kritische Edition der Gesta stehen drei Handschriften zur Verfügung, von denen nur eine [sc. , BNF lat. 1546] Überlieferungswert hat and daher mit Recht als Codex unicus bezeichnet werden darf. (…) Als stenographisch aufgezeichnetes Protokoll einer Diskussion ist die Collatio

© koninklijke brill nv, , 2018 | doi:10.1163/15700720-12341370 582 Received ein wertvolles Dokument für das gesprochene Latein der Spätantike’ (from the Einleitung, 6-18). New edition of Augustine’s Breviculus mainly based on Papierhandschrift Prag, Národni Knihovna Ms. XXIII D 177 (editio princeps by Amerbach, 1506); new edition of Ad Donatistas based on novel collation of a plethora of MSS (most important: Paris, BNF lat. 13367 from the 6th c.). Coutts, Joshua J.F., The Divine Name in the Gospel of John. Significance and Impetus (WUNT 447), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2017, XVI + 259 pp., ISBN 978-3-16-155188-8, € 79 (pb).—Slightly revised doctoral thesis University of ; supervisor Larry Hurtado. Dulk, Matthijs den, Between Jews and Heretics: Refiguring Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho (Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World), London-New York: Routledge 2018, viii + 174 pp., ISBN 978-0-815-37345-2, £ 115 (hb).—PhD University of ; advisor Margaret Mitchell: ‘… argues that whereas scholarship has routinely cast this important text [sc. Justin’s Dialogue] in terms of “Christianity vs. Judaism”, its rhetorical aims and discur- sive strategies are considerably more complex, because Justin is advocating his particular form of Christianity in constant negotiation with rival forms of Christianity. The striking new interpretation proposed in this study explains many of the Dialogue’s puzzling features and sheds new light on key passages. Because the Dialogue is a critical document for the early history of Jews and Christians, this contributes to a range of important questions, including the emergence of the notion of heresy and the “parting of the ways” between Jews and Christians’. Frankfurter, David, Christianizing Egypt. Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity, Princeton & : Princeton University Press 2018, xix + 314 pp., ISBN 0-691-17697-0, £ 32.95 (hb with jacket).—‘How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions and spectacu- lar monuments as Egypt? This book offers a new model for envisioning the process of Christianization by looking at the construction of Christianity in the various social and creative worlds active in Egyptian culture during late antiquity’. Fürst, Alfons, Origenes. Grieche und Christ in römischer Zeit, Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann 2017, X + 237 pp., ISBN 978-3-7772-1723-9, € 44 (pb).—Leading introduction to , based on the RAC-lemma ‘Origenes’ (2014), but with many alterations and a new chapter on Origen’s later influences by the emi- nent specialist: I. Origenes—Grieche und Christ; II. Die philosophisch-exeget- ischen Werke des Origenes; III. Origenes und die Gnosis; IV. Origenes und das Judentum; V. Origenes und die antiken Wissenschaften; VI. Origenes und die antike Philosophie; VII. Philosophie und Exgese; VIII. Christliche Philosophie der Freiheit; IX. Theologie und Politik; X. Christlicher Platonismus; XI. Origenes

Vigiliae Christianae 72 (2018) 581-585