Ramelli Bardaisan of Edessa: A Reassessment of the Evidence and a New Interpretation

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4632-1665-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 402 Seiten

Reihe: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies

This comprehensive study offers a critical, comparative analysis of the sources available on Bardaisan and a reinterpretation of his thought. The study highlights the profound points of contact between Bardaisan, Origen, and their schools; the role of Plato’s Timaeus and Middle Platonism in Bardaisan’s thought, and Stoicism. Bardaisan’s thought emerges as a deeply Christian one, depending on the exegesis of Scripture read in the light of Greek philosophy. Positive ancient sources present him as a deacon or even a presbyter, as an author of refutations of Marcionism and Gnosticism, and as a confessor of the faith during persecution.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramelli, Ilaria L. E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Dedication Page (page 5)
- Table of Contents (page 7)
- Preface (page 11)
- 1 By way of Introductory Essay: Methodological Guidelines (page 17)
- 2 Critical and Comparative Analysis of the Sources (page 45)
- 1 The Very First Possible Witness: Clement (page 45)
- 2 Two Early Witnesses Close to Origen and Very Appreciative of Bardaisan: Africanus and Didymus (page 46)
- 2.1 Julius Africanus' Acquaintance with both Bardaisan and Origen (page 46)
- 2.2 The Origenian Didymus the Blind: The Most Appreciative Source on Bardaisan (page 56)
- 3 Hippolytus (page 62)
- 4 The Liber Legum Regionum (page 70)
- 5 Porphyry and the Utmost Importance of His Fragments from Bardaisan: The Cosmic Christ, Middle-Platonism, and a Christian Reading of the Timaeus (page 107)
- 5.1 The Fragments from Bardaisan's De India in Porphyry's De Styge (page 107)
- 5.2 Bardaisan's Work in Porphyry's De Abstinentia (page 124)
- 6 Achilles Tatius and the Knowledge of Bardaisan in Late-Second-Century Alexandria (page 126)
- 7 The Acts of Thomas (page 127)
- 8 A Very Positive Witness: the Origenian Eusebius (page 131)
- 9 The Origenian Gregory of Nyssa and His Own Work Against Fate (page 138)
- 10 Diodore of Tarsus and His Closeness to Origen's Eschatology and Refutation of Fate (page 142)
- 11 Bardaisan's Fight Against Marcionism (page 161)
- 12 Jerome's Parallel Turn: From Admirer to Criticizer of both Origen and Bardaisan (page 164)
- 13 The Dialogue of Adamantius and the Portrait of a Bardaisanite (page 168)
- 14 Ephrem between Documentation and Misunderstandings (page 172)
- 15 Transition: The Transformation and Worsening of Bardaisan's Image (page 254)
- 16 Epiphanius' Information: A Mixed BagŽ (page 255)
- 17 Two Heresiological Accounts Deriving from Epiphanius' (page 261)
- 18 Sozomen (page 262)
- 19 Theodoret's Account (page 266)
- 20 Interesting Clues in a Very Appreciative Armenian Witness: Moses of Chorene (page 269)
- 21 Philoxenus of Mabbug, an Anonymous, Ishodad, and the Assimilation of Bardaisan to Valentinus or Mani (page 303)
- 22 Rabbula and Theodoret (page 307)
- 23 Appreciation of Bardaisan in a Local Source: the Chronicon of Edessa (page 312)
- 24 The Cosmological TraditionsŽ: Importance and Methodological Guidelines. Barhadbshabba Arbaya, Plus Comparisons with (Ps.) Maruta and Jacob of Edessa (page 314)
- 25 Theodore Bar Konai (page 328)
- 26 Theodore Abû Qurra (page 338)
- 27 Moses Bar Kepha (page 339)
- 28 (Ps.) John of Dara (page 347)
- 29 Agapius and the So-Called Third CosmologicalTradition (page 352)
- 30 Michael the Syrian's Cosmological Testimony (page 353)
- 31 Barhebraeus' Cosmological Account (page 354)
- 32 Mu'taman ad-Dawla (page 355)
- 33 From the Cosmological TraditionsŽ to Other Doxographies and the Biographical Accounts. Masudi's Biographical Information (page 355)
- 34 The Fihrist and Arabic Sources on Bardaisan's Anti-Dualism (page 358)
- 35 Michael the Syrian's Biographical Account (page 366)
- 36 Barhebraeus (page 374)
- 3 Conclusions and Contribution to Research (page 379)
- Essential Bibliographical References on Bardaisan (page 381)
- Index (page 389)