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Epiphanius of Cyprus
Andrew S. Jacobs
其他書名
A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity
出版Univ of California Press, 2016-07-05
主題Religion / Ancient
ISBN05202911239780520291126
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bbIlDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus from 367 to 403 C.E., was incredibly influential in the last decades of the fourth century. Whereas his major surviving text (the Panarion, an encyclopedia of heresies) is studied for lost sources, Epiphanius himself is often dismissed as an anti-intellectual eccentric, a marginal figure of late antiquity. In this book, Andrew Jacobs moves Epiphanius from the margin back toward the center and proposes we view major cultural themes of late antiquity in a new light altogether. Through an examination of the key cultural concepts of celebrity, conversion, discipline, scripture, and salvation, Jacobs shifts our understanding of "late antiquity" from a transformational period open to new ideas and peoples toward a Christian Empire that posited a troubling, but ever-present, "otherness" at the center of its cultural production.