TOWARDS A NEW EDITION OF JULIAN’S CONTRA GALILAEOS : ASSESSING THE MATERIAL FROM THE SYRIAC TRANSMISSION OF CYRIL’S CONTRA IVLIANVM
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Crawford, Matthew R.. (2022). TOWARDS A NEW EDITION OF JULIAN’S CONTRA GALILAEOS : ASSESSING THE MATERIAL FROM THE SYRIAC TRANSMISSION OF CYRIL’S CONTRA IVLIANVM. Classical Quarterly. 72(2), pp. 850-867. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838822000799
Authors | Crawford, Matthew R. |
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Abstract | Emperor Julian's three-book treatise Contra Galilaeos survives solely in those Christian sources that quoted it in order to respond to its forceful attack on Christianity. The bulk of these survivals comes from Cyril of Alexandria's twenty-book Contra Iulianum. The recent publication of the first modern critical edition of Cyril's work creates the occasion for a fresh study of the remnants of Julian's text that can be recovered from it. This is especially true for Books 11–20 of Cyril's treatise that are themselves lost and survive only in quotations in later Greek and Syriac sources. The present article undertakes a reassessment of the Julianic material preserved via the Syriac transmission of Contra Iulianum, including several passages hitherto unknown or ignored in earlier studies of Julian's treatise. It provides the Syriac text and English translation of eight passages and contextualizes them in the wider argumentative aim of Contra Galilaeos. |
Keywords | Julian; Cyril; Eusebius; Origen; star; martyrs; apologetic; genealogy |
Year | 2022 |
Journal | Classical Quarterly |
Journal citation | 72 (2), pp. 850-867 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
ISSN | 0009-8388 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838822000799 |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Page range | 850-867 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 24 Apr 2023 |
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Deposited | 05 Jun 2023 |
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