Neue griechische Fragmente des Cyrill von Alexandrien, (Pseudo-)Athanasius, Philoxenos, Severus von Antiochien und Ammonios: patristische Auslegungen zum 1. Korintherbrief (ediert aus dem Codex Pantokratoros 28), Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 18 (2014), 260-282 (original) (raw)
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The exegetical texts of Alexandros of Nikaia – a Byzantine bishop living in the 10th century – were hitherto completely unknown to scholarship. Although some catena manuscripts contain several scholia attributed to Alexandros, they have never been the subject of scientific examination. The present article provides the first edition of one of these scholia that survives in the catena commentary on 2 Corinthians in Codex Vaticanus Graecus 762. The edited text is translated into German and extensively commented on. The linguistic and content analysis of the edited scholion allows to say that there is no reason to doubt that the text was originally written by Alexandros who here shows himself a quite conscientious biblical commentator. The article concludes with a list of all catena scholia that are attributed to the Byzantine bishop. The existence of these texts makes clear that the exegetical activity of Alexandros of Nikaia may no longer be ignored.
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The article discusses the authorship and date of the so-called Confession of Ambrose (CPL 167a) which has come down to us in Greek in Theodoret's Eranistes and in Latin in the letter In prolixitate epistolae by Pope Anastasius II (CPL 1610; CPG 9160). It is argued that the text was originally written in Greek and that some of its clauses closely resemble Theodoret's Letter 151 and the (Eastern) Formula of the Council of Ephesus of 431. While the identity of the author remains unknown, there are reasons to believe that the text was composed in the years 431−433. An improved edition of the Greek and Latin versions of this text, accompanied by a German translation, is also given.
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Receptions of Paul in Early Christianity, 2018
This article examines collections of Paul's letters as part of the emerging New Testament canon. Already Paul himself claimed to interpret the gospel of Jesus Christ in normative way. Paul's missionary activity and his theology outlined in his letters were taken up and developed further in pseudepigraphic letters, in the Acts of the Apostles as well as in other early Christian writings. Knowledge of at least some of Paul's letters can be recognized from the late first century onwards. It is not before Marcion, however, that a collection of Paul's letters (both authentic and inauthentic, from a historical-critical viewpoint) in a distinct order and text form is attested. Collections of Pauline letters with different arrangements and extent are preserved in Papyrus 46 and in the Muratorian fragment. The connection of Jesus and Paul within a historical narrative is attested in Luke-Acts. In addition, 1 Clement refers to "words of our Lord Jesus" and to letters of Paul. Towards the end of the second century, Irenaeus established a distinct relationship between the four Gospels on the one hand and the letters of Paul on the other. This was a decisive step in the formation of the "New Testament" of which Paul's letters were a formative part.
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