Although there is certainly some scientific interest in Orosius, the use and interpretation of sacred texts in his historical work, the "Historiae adversus paganos", is still a neglected topic. Yet, not only is the presence – both textual and theological...
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Origen is famous for his blistering take-down of those who taught of a coming physical kingdom of Christ in a rebuilt Jerusalem (Princ. 2.11.2). Scholars have typically presumed that Origen was responding to the exegesis of the earlier ...
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The Protevangelium of James provides the earliest explanation of the relationship between Jesus and his brothers and sisters (Mark 6:1-6 par.) - they are step-siblings, since Joseph had children from a previous marriage. In Against Helvidius, Jerome rejected ...
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My intended postdoctoral research examines the cultural environment in which Judaic canonical text, known as the Babylonian Talmud, was formed and redacted in the Judeo-Persian diaspora in late antiquity and early medieval time. To this end, my research proceeds by comparing and analyzing esoteric and canonical Babylonian textual ...
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