{"title":"Lincoln H. Blumell with Thomas W. Mackay and Gregg Schwendner: Didymus the Blind’s Commentary on Psalms 26:10–29:2 and 36:1–3 (P.BYU I). Turnhout (Brepols) 2019, XV+ 210 pp., ISBN 978-2-503-58370-9, € 100,–.","authors":"Sofía Torallas Tovar","doi":"10.1515/zac-2022-0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2022-0035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"140 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":"132276185","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":"Osservazioni sull’espressione χύσις τῆς κακίας e sulle sue varianti in Origene","authors":"Gianluca Piscini","doi":"10.1515/zac-2022-0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2022-0040","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper I study the expression χύσις τῆς κακίας, frequently used by Origen of Alexandria. The identification of its variants in Origen gives some criteria to identify its occurrences in pre-origenian literature. Three possible sources are examined: the pagan literature, the Scripture and Philo of Alexandria; the latter is most likely the model for Origen. Before studying the use of χύσις τῆς κακίας and its variants in Origen, I discuss the frequency of these expressions in his works. Curiously enough, Origen uses them far more often in the Against Celsus than in his other works. The most likely explanation is that the topics discussed in the apology led him to have recourse to these expressions. A survey of the multiple meanings of χύσις τῆς κακίας and its variants in all his works but the Against Celsus, then in the latter, confirms this hypothesis. Finally, I stress the originality of Origen. Although he probably found χύσις τῆς κακίας and its variants in Philo, Origen uses them in a different way: to demonstrate the necessity and the significance of Christ’s actions. An addendum presents some possible traces of χύσις τῆς κακίας and its variants in the Latin translations of Origen’s works.","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"347 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":"128937972","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":"Diodore of Tarsus, Theodore of Mopsuestia, and the Interpretation of the Messianic Psalms","authors":"Justin J. Lee","doi":"10.1515/zac-2022-0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2022-0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract For the majority of the patristic tradition, the Psalms are full of prophetic references to Christ, justified by New Testament citations and creative reading strategies. But for two writers from the so-called Antiochene school, Diodore of Tarsus and his student Theodore of Mopsuestia, this is not the case; New Testament use of the Old Testament is not prescriptive and allegory must be avoided at all costs. Diodore and Theodore only recognize four psalms as messianic: Ps 2, 8, 45, and 110. But not only do both theologians read Christ into these psalms, they do so in a manner that is unusual compared to how they approach the rest of the Psalter. This essay seeks to shed light on the reasons underlying these seeming exceptions. Pushing back against the now outdated paradigm of the Antiochene school as purely historical or literal exegesis, this essay will argue that both Diodore and Theodore are motivated not primarily by exegetical method, but more so by theological and textual concerns. More specifically, the readings of these four psalms are shaped by the Antiochene Christological vision found in Heb 1–2, which results in the prioritization of this text over the psalms in question.","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"147 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124306331","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":"Patrick T.R. Gray: Claiming the Mantle of Cyril: Cyril of Alexandria and the Road to Chalcedon, Late Antique History and Religion 24, Leuven (Peeters) 2021, S. XIV + 306, ISBN 9789042942578, € 95,–.","authors":"Konrad F. Zawadzki","doi":"10.1515/zac-2022-0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2022-0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121695542","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":"Elisa Groth: Vocis pura sinceritas. Untersuchungen zum Prosarhythmus im Corpus Cyprianaeum, Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums 30, Paderborn (Ferdinand Schöningh) 2021, S. VIII + 283, ISBN 978-3-506-76020-3, € 99,–.","authors":"Laetitia Ciccolini","doi":"10.1515/zac-2022-0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2022-0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"226 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116384623","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":"David Lloyd Dusenbury: Nemesius of Emesa on Human Nature. A Cosmopolitan Anthropology from Roman Syria, Oxford Early Christian Studies, Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2021, S. 240, ISBN 9780198856962, £ 65,–.","authors":"D. de Brasi","doi":"10.1515/zac-2022-0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2022-0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125484314","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":"Susanne Barth: Tätige Nächstenliebe im Werk und Wirken Gregors des Großen, Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 122, Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck) 2021, S. XIII + 449, ISBN 978-3-16-158950-8; € 89,–.","authors":"B. Müller","doi":"10.1515/zac-2022-0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2022-0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126815816","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":"New Evidence for Severus of Antioch’s Correspondence with the patricia Caesaria (CPG 7071,11): Ethiopic Fragments Related to the Origin of Evil and the Resurrection of the Dead","authors":"Philip Michael Forness","doi":"10.1515/zac-2022-0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2022-0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In late Roman Egypt, a woman of high-standing named Caesaria corresponded extensively with Severus of Antioch, a bishop who had relocated to Egypt in exile. A few complete letters from their correspondence survive, and many fragments are scattered in florilegia, in biblical catenae, and as quotations in other works. The present paper argues that a reading for the Thursday after Easter found in an Ethiopic homiliary for the season of Pentecost contains three genuine excerpts from their correspondence. These three excerpts discuss the origin of evil and the resurrection of the dead, drawing on both the biblical text as well as the writings of Gregory of Nyssa. The excerpts offer important information about Severus’s correspondence with Caesaria as well as the circulation of early Christian writings in early Solomonic Ethiopia. An edition and translation of the excerpts follow in the appendices.","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122636972","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":"Jon C. Cubas Díaz: Das Sepulkralwesen im Rauen Kilikien am Ende der Antike. Funerärarchäologie und Grabepigraphik einer spätantiken Landschaft, Asia Minor Studien 98, Bonn (Habelt) 2021, S. XVIII + 226, 91 Tafeln, 2 Faltkarten, ISBN 978-3-7749-4280-6, € 85,–.","authors":"S. Froehlich","doi":"10.1515/zac-2022-0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2022-0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126637835","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 Coptic Translation of Epiphanius of Salamis’s Ancoratus and the Origenist Controversy in Upper Egypt","authors":"Christian H. Bull","doi":"10.1515/zac-2022-0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2022-0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Two manuscripts from around the 9th and the 10th century bear witness to a Coptic translation of the Ancoratus, originally written in Greek by Epiphanius, bishop of Salamis, in 374. Like his more famous sequel to this work, the Panarion, the treatise defends Nicene orthodoxy from perceived heretics, mainly Pneumatomachoi, Arians, Manichaeans, and Origenists. The latter are said to be present in Upper Egypt, where they deny the resurrection of this material body in favor of a spiritual body. The present article argues that the Coptic translation likely took place shortly after the composition of the Greek original, indeed the work was in part commissioned to be used against Origenist monastics in Upper Egypt, thus furnishing a valuable testimony to monastic diversity in the Thebaïd and the lead-up to the Origenist Controversy.","PeriodicalId":202431,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127697218","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}