Epiphanius of Cyprus

A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-520-38570-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 350 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 226 mm x 151 mm, Gewicht: 506 g

Reihe: Christianity in Late Antiquity

Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus from 367 to 403 CE, 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 S. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacobs, Andrew S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Spätantike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Epiphanius, Now and Then

1. Celebrity
2. Conversion
3. Discipline
4. Scripture
5. Salvation
6. After Lives

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew S. Jacobs is Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity and Christ Circumcised: A Study in Early Christian History and Difference.