Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity Volume 22 Issue 3

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2018 Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity

doi:10.1515/zac-2018-frontmatter3

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L’iride e la Trinità: Osservazioni sulle fonti di Basilio, Epistula 38,5

Verde, Francesco

2018 Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity

doi:10.1515/zac-2018-0036

AbstractThe focus of this contribution is to examine the section 5 (Courtonne) of Basil’s Letter 38 devoted to the rainbow considered as a physical metaphor of the Trinity. The main purpose is to scrutinize the likely ancient pagan sources of Basil’s description of rainbow’s formation. The...

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The Greek Text of Revelation in Late Antique Egypt: Materials, Texts, and Social History

Malik, Peter

2018 Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity

doi:10.1515/zac-2018-0037

AbstractThe Book of Revelation has been something of an outlier within parts of the Christian tradition, as evidenced, among other things, by its peculiar canonical reception. As regards the earliest period of transmission, however, the Greek text of Revelation is relatively well attested. In...

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Redemption for the Serpent: The Reception History of Serpent Material from the Physiologus in the Greek, Latin, and Syriac Traditions

Scully, Jason

2018 Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity

doi:10.1515/zac-2018-0038

AbstractThe Physiologus is a patristic text containing allegorical interpretations of animals. This article examines the Greek, Latin, and Syriac reception history of the serpent material from the Physiologus and concludes that while Greek and Latin authors repeated serpent material from the...

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Visual Exegesis at ‘The World’s Oldest Church’: a Case Study for Historiography

Harrower, Scott

2018 Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity

doi:10.1515/zac-2018-0035

AbstractThis article highlights the importance of acknowledging the underlying methodology in the interpretation of early Christian art. I raise these issues via an engagement with the frescoes at Dura Europos, as interpreted by Michael Peppard in his recent work, The World’s Oldest Church. I...

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Brian J. Arnold: Justification in the Second Century, Studies of the Bible and Its Reception 9, Berlin (de Gruyter) 2017, XIV + 221 S., ISBN 978-3-11-047677-4, 99,95 €.

Lona, Horacio

2018 Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity

doi:10.1515/zac-2018-0039

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Herbert Schmid: Christen und Sethianer: Ein Beitrag zur Diskussion um den religionsgeschichtlichen und den kirchengeschichtlichen Begriff der Gnosis, Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 143, Leiden (Brill) 2017, X + 474 S., ISBN 978-90-04-35365-7, € 138,–.

Brakke, David

2018 Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity

doi:10.1515/zac-2018-0040