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Severos, patriarch of Antioch, was one of the most important ecclesiastical figures of the first half of the sixth century, a time when the reception, or not, of the Council of Chalcedon (451) was still a matter of much dispute. As an opponent of the Council, Severos had to flee from his patriarchal see to Egypt in 518 when Justin came to the throne and imperial policy changed. Summoned by Justinian to Constantinople in 536, he won over Anthimos, the patriarch of Constantinople, but in the reaction to this unexpected turn of events, both he and Anthimos were anathematised at a synod in the capital and his writings were condemned to be burnt. Regarded as a schismatic by the Greek and Latin Church, he is commemorated as a saint in the Syrian Orthodox Church, and so it is only in Syriac translations from Greek that the majority of his voluminous writings are preserved. The first of the two biographies translated in this volume was written by Zacharias, a fellow law student in Beirut. The purpose of the work was to counter a hostile pamphlet and it happens to shed fascinating light on student life at the time; composed during Severos’ own lifetime, it covers up to his election as patriarch in 512; the second biography comprises Severos’ whole life, and its author, writing only shortly after Severos’ death in 538, was probably a monk of the monastery of Qenneshre, on the Euphrates, a stronghold of Severos’ supporters. In this volume for the Translated Texts for Historians series, the Anonymous Life of Severos is translated for the first time into English alongside a fully annotated translation of the Life of Severos by Zacharias scholastikos, all of which is preceded by an introduction providing the historical setting and background.

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-Collected essays by an eminent patristic scholar contextualizing some of her recent books such as Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture and God's Presence: A Contemporary Recapitulation of Early Christianity: Acknowledgments; Introduction (with pertinent remarks on shifts in patristic studies and her commitment to patristics as a sub-discipline of theology); A. From Exegesis to Hermeneutics: I. Adam and Anthropos: a study of the interaction of science and the Bible in two anthropological treatises of the fourth century; II. John Chrysostom on first and second Corinthians; III. Allegory and atonement; IV. The rhetorical schools and their influence on patristic exegesis; V. The fourth century reaction against allegory; VI. Allegory and the ethics of reading; VII. From suspicion and sociology to spirituality: on method, hermeneutics and appropriation with respect to patristic material; VIII. The Apostolic Constitutions: a methodological case-study; IX. On episkopos and presbyteros; X. Ministerial forms and functions in the Church communities of the Greek Fathers; XI. Exegetical method and scriptural proof: the Bible in doctrinal debate; XII.Proverbs 8 in interpretation (2): wisdom personified; B. From Doctrine to Theology: XIII. Paideia and the myth of static dogma; XIV. The Confessions of St Augustine: What is the genre of this work?; XV. Did Epiphanius know what he meant by heresy? XVI. Creatio ex nihilo: a context for the emergence of the Christian doctrine of creation; XVII. Naked or clothed? Eschatology and the doctrine of creation; XVIII. Creation and human being: the forging of a distinct Christian discourse; XIX. Theotokos: Mary and the pattern of fall and redemption in the theology of Cyril of Alexandria; XX. The God of the Greeks and the nature of religious language. Index. -- J. van Oort Vigiliae Christianae 67

-Collected essays by an eminent patristic scholar contextualizing some of her recent books such as Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture and God's Presence: A Contemporary Recapitulation of Early Christianity: Acknowledgments; Introduction (with pertinent remarks on shifts in patristic studies and her commitment to patristics as a sub-discipline of theology); A. From Exegesis to Hermeneutics: I. Adam and Anthropos: a study of the interaction of science and the Bible in two anthropological treatises of the fourth century; II. John Chrysostom on first and second Corinthians; III. Allegory and atonement; IV. The rhetorical schools and their influence on patristic exegesis; V. The fourth century reaction against allegory; VI. Allegory and the ethics of reading; VII. From suspicion and sociology to spirituality: on method, hermeneutics and appropriation with respect to patristic material; VIII. The Apostolic Constitutions: a methodological case-study; IX. On episkopos and presbyteros; X. Ministerial forms and functions in the Church communities of the Greek Fathers; XI. Exegetical method and scriptural proof: the Bible in doctrinal debate; XII.Proverbs 8 in interpretation (2): wisdom personified; B. From Doctrine to Theology: XIII. Paideia and the myth of static dogma; XIV. The Confessions of St Augustine: What is the genre of this work?; XV. Did Epiphanius know what he meant by heresy? XVI. Creatio ex nihilo: a context for the emergence of the Christian doctrine of creation; XVII. Naked or clothed? Eschatology and the doctrine of creation; XVIII. Creation and human being: the forging of a distinct Christian discourse; XIX. Theotokos: Mary and the pattern of fall and redemption in the theology of Cyril of Alexandria; XX. The God of the Greeks and the nature of religious language. Index. -- J. van Oort Vigiliae Christianae 67 2013

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Sebastian Brock is Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. Brian Fitzgerald is an independent scholar.

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