{"title":"The Library of Paradise: A History of Contemplative Reading in the Monasteries of the Church of the East, written by David A. Michelson","authors":"Cătălin-Ștefan Popa","doi":"10.1163/15700720-12347538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700720-12347538","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":510728,"journal":{"name":"Vigiliae Christianae","volume":"98 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140709129","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 Problem in Augustine, Confessions 3.21","authors":"Konstantine Panegyres","doi":"10.1163/15700720-bja10085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700720-bja10085","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper reconsiders a problem raised by the verb substomachans in Augustine’s Confessions (3.21). Contrary to what has been argued by a recent scholar, the verb does not mean “to belch (out)”. Since the word only occurs once in the writings of Augustine, and only appears again in Latin in the derivative writings of Julian of Eclanum (C.Iul. imp. 6.16), there has always been some debate about its form and meaning. The verb is probably nothing more than a Latin calque (loan translation) of Greek ὑπαγανακτέω (“to be somewhat angry”).","PeriodicalId":510728,"journal":{"name":"Vigiliae Christianae","volume":"27 s1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139797225","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 Problem in Augustine, Confessions 3.21","authors":"Konstantine Panegyres","doi":"10.1163/15700720-bja10085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700720-bja10085","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper reconsiders a problem raised by the verb substomachans in Augustine’s Confessions (3.21). Contrary to what has been argued by a recent scholar, the verb does not mean “to belch (out)”. Since the word only occurs once in the writings of Augustine, and only appears again in Latin in the derivative writings of Julian of Eclanum (C.Iul. imp. 6.16), there has always been some debate about its form and meaning. The verb is probably nothing more than a Latin calque (loan translation) of Greek ὑπαγανακτέω (“to be somewhat angry”).","PeriodicalId":510728,"journal":{"name":"Vigiliae Christianae","volume":"8 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139857046","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":"τὰ ἅγια εἰς λόγον εὐλογιῶν: Laodicea Canon 14 in its Phrygian Context","authors":"Alistair C. Stewart","doi":"10.1163/15700720-bja10086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700720-bja10086","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The 14th canon of Laodicea, forbidding the exchange of τὰ ἅγια εἰς λόγον εὐλογιῶν, has never received a satisfactory explanation. This article suggests that it may be legislating against a local paschal custom which has become suspect due to its practice by Montanist communities.","PeriodicalId":510728,"journal":{"name":"Vigiliae Christianae","volume":"97 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139383655","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":"Trois notes sur le texte des fragments historiques d’Hilaire de Poitiers (Fragmenta ex opere historico, B, II, 9, 6, 2 ; 11, 2)","authors":"Christophe Guignard","doi":"10.1163/15700720-bja10078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700720-bja10078","url":null,"abstract":"The text of Hilary of Poitiers’ Historical Fragments (Fragmenta ex opere historico, CPL 436) is affected by numerous textual corruptions. This short article discusses three problems in two difficult passages in the section on the Nicene Creed and another creed, which Hilary denounces as crypto-Arian (B, II, 9, 6, 2, p. 149, 15-21; 11, 2, p. 151, 20-152, 2).","PeriodicalId":510728,"journal":{"name":"Vigiliae Christianae","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139316573","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":"Thecla and Medieval Sainthood: The Acts of Paul and Thecla in Eastern and Western Hagiography, edited by Ghazzal Dabiri and Flavia Ruani","authors":"Jan N. Bremmer","doi":"10.1163/15700720-12347530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700720-12347530","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":510728,"journal":{"name":"Vigiliae Christianae","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139316770","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":"Person and Nature in Maxentius the Scythian (fl. ca. 518–523)","authors":"Marius Portaru","doi":"10.1163/15700720-bja10079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700720-bja10079","url":null,"abstract":"Although Abbas Maxentius the Scythian (fl. ca. 518–523) played a major role in the post-Chalcedonian debate and his personality is generally appreciated by historians, his specific Christological contribution has remained insufficiently integrated into the narratives of the period. With few exceptions, his activity is reduced to a mere annexe of Justinian’s Church politics. In the present study, after a concise introduction to the life and work of Maxentius and the Cyrillian Chalcedonian tradition of Scythia minor, I analyse Maxentius’ distinction between ‘person’ and ‘nature’ in Christology.","PeriodicalId":510728,"journal":{"name":"Vigiliae Christianae","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139316786","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":"“Horse and Rider He Threw into the Sea” (Exod 15:1)","authors":"Albert C. Geljon","doi":"10.1163/15700720-bja10080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700720-bja10080","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the use of the horse as an image of the body and of passion in the Alexandrian theological tradition. It started with Philo, who regarded the horse as a symbol of passion. Clement and Origen adopted the Philonic interpretation. Origen, who exploited the image most, saw the horse as representing the body, bodily things, irrational passions and desires of the flesh. Finally, following in Origen’s footsteps, Didymus also interpreted the horse as a figure of the body. In addition, both Origen and Didymus distinguished between the image of the horseman and that of the rider, following the example of a predecessor, whom they did not mention by name: Philo.","PeriodicalId":510728,"journal":{"name":"Vigiliae Christianae","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139316985","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}