{"title":"Plato’s Phaedrus and Symposium in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies","authors":"Benjamin M. J. De Vos","doi":"10.1515/zac-2023-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2023-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The presence of Plato and Platonic philosophy in the late antique Christian novel, the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies, has been underexamined. The present article takes a twofold approach: first, it discusses Platonic references and allusions in the disputes between Appion the grammarian and Clement, a follower of the apostle Peter (Homiliae Clementinae 4–6), and links them to the rest of the Homilistic narrative. Plato’s dialogues of the Symposium and, in particular, the Phaedrus turn out to be insightful philosophical and literary frameworks by means of which the Homilist reflects on the value of eros, paideia, rhetoric and philosophy, the value of written discourse, and truth. Secondly, this article also compares the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies with (other) novels and narratives from the Second Sophistic that intertextually engage with similar Platonic motifs and passages. My analysis reveals how the Homilist, as a Christian novelist with strong philosophical (and one might say Sophistic) interests, is a remarkable member of the late antique, cultural dialogue, in which the reception of Plato’s dialogues took place.","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130703057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intertextuality as a Phenomenon in the History of Religion and Culture","authors":"Uta Heil","doi":"10.1515/zac-2023-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2023-0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130899582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neuedition der sogenannten Akten des sogenannten Konzils von Cäsarea zum Ostertermin und Fastenfragen","authors":"Uta Heil, C. Scheerer","doi":"10.1515/zac-2022-0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2022-0033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract With regard to the debate about the date of Easter around the year 200 A. D., Eusebius, Historia ecclesiastica 5,23–25 refers to a council held in Palestine. This council appears to be referred to in a short passage within manuscripts containing works of Bede and Isidor or computistic texts. Yet there are differing versions of this text and the various publications containing and referring to it since the 16th century provide a confusing picture, with some dismissing it as a forgery. It can be assumed that one of these versions is a later reworking of the other, which in turn has never been published in its original form yet. After viewing these publications and the additional information contained therein, a search for manuscripts containing the texts was conducted. These were collated and the text of the two main versions constituted. While the first version as it is now available in the manuscripts also shows alterations of a later stage and cannot be dated earlier than the end of the 4th century, there is no reason not to assume the core of the text to be a contemporary or not much later recollection of a council in Palestine which dealt with the date of Easter, possibly as part of written correspondence regarding the issue as reported by Eusebius.","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126693014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Diamerismos Tradition in Greek Historical Periodization","authors":"Patricia Varona","doi":"10.1515/zac-2022-0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2022-0039","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article aims to explore the origins of the inclusion of the diamerismos—the division of the earth between Noah’s sons—as epoche in Greek historical periodization. It is based on the assumption that supputationes are a basic element of Greek chronological literature, although neglected by recent research, and can be very useful as identifiers of chronological sources and traditions. Several Greek supputationes from the 3d to the 10th century will be addressed as evidence. There was no agreement on the inclusion of this epoche between Greek historians and chronologers, so the analysis is restricted to examples which include it. The origin of this situation can be traced to the conflation of Africanus and Eusebius in a chronicle work from Creation, with addition of other elements and possible updatings. The contribution of Africanus to this chronological scheme can be seen as a most essential element.","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127620441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Michael Motia: Imitations of Infinity. Gregory of Nyssa and the Transformation of Mimesis, Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion, Philadelphia, PA (University of Pennsylvania Press) 2022, viii + 275 pp., ISBN 978-0-8122-5313-9, $ 69,95.","authors":"I. Kaplan","doi":"10.1515/zac-2022-0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2022-0036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"586 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116270634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Witness to the Catena of Codex Zacynthius","authors":"Panagiotis Manafis","doi":"10.1515/zac-2022-0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2022-0034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The so-called Codex Zacynthius (Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 10062) is believed to be the earliest surviving Byzantine manuscript bearing commentaries on the New Testament; it preserves a series of commentaries on the Gospel of Luke consisting of quotations from writers of the early Christian period. The present article demonstrates that Codex Zacynthius must no longer be deemed the only witness to this collection of exegetical passages: the same collection for Luke 1:1–2:35 is found on four pages at the beginning and end of a 12th-century manuscript (Codex Vaticanus Palatinus graecus 273). This manuscript not only helps us to read parts of Codex Zacynthius that are now illegible, but it also provides us with the text of seven pages of the collection that are missing from Codex Zacynthius. These include commentaries by seven of the ten authors cited in this collection, including Greek passages from Severus of Antioch. The article includes the editio princeps of these previously unknown parts of the collection.","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132392081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Der liturgische Exkurs in der Kirchengeschichte des Sokrates","authors":"Christoph Hammann","doi":"10.1515/zac-2022-0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2022-0032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract As the longest of all the digressions in the Church History, the chapter on Easter liturgy (5,22) plays a crucial role in the work of the Christian church historian Socrates of Constantinople. This is the reason why it has been examined in several monographs on Socrates. For example, it has been shown that Socrates’ tone in this chapter is polemical and that he deals with a conflict within the church of the Novatianists. This contribution provides an analysis of the language Socrates uses and the rhetorical strategies he adopts, shedding light on the question of how Socrates displays Jewish and Christian and, among the latter, also Novatianist liturgical customs. In particular, it shows that Socrates downplays the tensions between the Novatianists in order to portray them as a unity and to bring most of the Novatianists closer to the Western church.","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116487731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yaniv Fox and Erica Buchberger, eds.: Inclusion and Exclusion in Mediterranean Christianities, 400–800. Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 25, Turnhout (Brepols) 2019, vii + 293 pp., ISBN 978-2-503-58113-2, € 90,–.","authors":"Maria Lissek","doi":"10.1515/zac-2022-0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2022-0038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121692699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Velut alienae legis: una nota sui rapporti tra papa Vigilio e Totila nel 550","authors":"Marco Cristini","doi":"10.1515/zac-2022-0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2022-0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In 550, pope Vigilius sent a letter (Epistolae Arelatenses 45) to bishop Aurelianus in order to convince king Childebert to intercede with Totila and ask him not to harm the Roman church. The expression quippe velut alienae legis, which is included in this document, has often been connected with the Arianism of Totila, but a closer examination of the epistle shows that it refers to the Church of Rome instead, which the Ostrogothic king should not treat as if it were an heretic community. Vigilius chose these words in order to voice his concern that the properties of the Roman Church would be seized by the king, and not to stress Totila’s Arianism.","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131984955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Waiting for the End: Two Case Studies on the Relationship Between Time and Gender in Early Christianity","authors":"Maria Dell’Isola","doi":"10.1515/zac-2022-0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2022-0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The present article attempts to discuss the relationship between time and gender in the Acta Pauli et Theclae and the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis. By analyzing both the temporal perception in the narrative and the construction of time through a series of narratological devices, I will focus on how specific notions of time that emerged in the early centuries of the Christian era proved to be a key factor in shaping women’s agency. Building on this evidence, I aim to identify a set of key features that may define the relationship between eschatology and the role of women in early Christianity. The figures of Thecla, Perpetua and Felicitas will be analyzed as highly representative case studies of gendered temporality.","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117340894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}