Hippolytus Between East and West: The Commentaries and the Provenance of the Corpus

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Oxford University Press, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 291 pages
'An intriguing and potentially significant contribution to the debate.' -Church TimesWho was Saint Hippolytus? The answer has eluded historians for centuries. This is the first in-depth analysis of the 'Hippolytus question' in English for over a hundred years. It suggests that this writer, so influential on Western liturgical practice in the twentieth century, is best viewed as a writer of the East.
 

Contents

The commentary genre
21
Eusebius
34
Jerome
50
Hippolytus Orientalis
81
Hippolytus Romanus in modern times
94
Hippolytus of Portus and the modern twoHippolyti
108
Core documents
133
The antichrist treatise
143
Martha and Mary
183
The New Prophecy and the Quartodecimans
211
The antichrist theology
221
The eschaton
232
Conclusions
250
The title list of the statue
259
Index
285
Copyright

The Apostle Paul
163

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About the author (2002)

J.A. Cerrato is Head of Classics at The Pennington School, New Jersey, and a priest of the Episcopal Church

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