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by Secret Alias
Sun Jun 11, 2017 7:10 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Understanding How Epiphanius Wrote the Panarion
Replies: 26
Views: 8197

Re: Understanding How Epiphanius Wrote the Panarion

Pseudo-Tertullian: Carpocrates, futhermore, introduced the following sect. He affirms that there is one Virtue, the chief among the upper (regions): that out of this were produced angels and Virtues, which, being far distant from the upper Virtues, created this world44 in the lower regions: that Chr...
by Secret Alias
Sun Jun 11, 2017 6:43 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Understanding How Epiphanius Wrote the Panarion
Replies: 26
Views: 8197

Re: Understanding How Epiphanius Wrote the Panarion

It's pretty obvious that Epiphanius must have had Hippolytus's lost Syntagma as his guide for the framework of this section of the Panarion. Note for instance that in the section on the Carpocratians he begins Καρποκρᾶς τις ἕτερος γίνεται, συστήσας ἑαυτῷ ἀθέμιτον διδασκαλεῖον τῆς ψευδωνύμου αὐτοῦ γν...
by Secret Alias
Sun Jun 11, 2017 3:29 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Understanding How Epiphanius Wrote the Panarion
Replies: 26
Views: 8197

Re: Understanding How Epiphanius Wrote the Panarion

Another important thing. Filaster has almost the same order as Epiphanius in this section even though he did not use Epiphanius: Epiphanius 20. Epiphanius Against the Herodians Being an account of the followers of Herod 21. Epiphanius Against the Simonians Being an account of the followers of Simon ...
by Secret Alias
Sun Jun 11, 2017 8:21 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Understanding How Epiphanius Wrote the Panarion
Replies: 26
Views: 8197

Re: Understanding How Epiphanius Wrote the Panarion

Just curious Andrew, what's the actual evidence for the pre-existence of the Constantinople Creed other than the reference in the Ancoratus?
by Secret Alias
Sat Jun 10, 2017 10:15 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Christian responses to imperial propaganda.
Replies: 33
Views: 21454

Re: Christian responses to imperial propaganda.

Bloom thinks sayings interpreted as expressing secret antinomianism/Gnostic dualism expressed closeted anti-Imperialism. Jews were often accused of hating the human race/the world. Belief in a god of the Jews who is secret or concealed is similarly rooted. The Jewish theophanies in the Pentateuch ar...
by Secret Alias
Sat Jun 10, 2017 9:48 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Christian responses to imperial propaganda.
Replies: 33
Views: 21454

Re: Christian responses to imperial propaganda.

Celsus thought "you can't have two masters ..."
by Secret Alias
Fri Jun 09, 2017 8:50 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Understanding How Epiphanius Wrote the Panarion
Replies: 26
Views: 8197

Re: Understanding How Epiphanius Wrote the Panarion

So the timeline of publications by Epiphanius: 374 Ancoratus was written 375 - 377 Panarion was composed as something of a sequel to the Ancoratus (owing to E's allusion to various heresies that puzzled the two abbots to whom the Ancoratus was addressed) 381 Creed of Constantinople was established a...
by Secret Alias
Thu Jun 08, 2017 12:50 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Understanding How Epiphanius Wrote the Panarion
Replies: 26
Views: 8197

Re: Understanding How Epiphanius Wrote the Panarion

From the author of a recent critical work on Epiphanius (not Kim): Dear Mr. Huller, Thank you for your keen interest in my book. It is, of course, very difficult to reconstruct the exact circumstances of Epiphanius's composition--both the sources he had on hand and the process by which he went from ...
by Secret Alias
Wed Jun 07, 2017 11:00 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Understanding How Epiphanius Wrote the Panarion
Replies: 26
Views: 8197

Re: Understanding How Epiphanius Wrote the Panarion

On the role of the scribe Anatolius in the shaping of the final composition. The Ancoratus was composed around 373 - 374. The title seems to be Epiphanius's drawing on a metaphor in his prologue of a ship seeking safe harbor; furthermore his secretary Anatolius mentions it in his subscription "...
by Secret Alias
Wed Jun 07, 2017 10:35 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Understanding How Epiphanius Wrote the Panarion
Replies: 26
Views: 8197

Re: Understanding How Epiphanius Wrote the Panarion

Kim, Epiphanius "We know that Epiphanius dictated his thoughts to his scribe Anatolios; and perhaps due to haste and the petitioners' desperation, we might forgive the bishop for the work's seeming lack of organization.130 However, examining the text with a better understanding of the context ...