عنوان

De Beneficentia:

Number

LA128929

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

De Beneficentia:

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Other Title Information

A Homily on Social Action attributed to Basil of Caesarea

First Statement of Responsibility

Susan R. Holman, Caroline Macé, Brian J. Matz, et al.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

This paper introduces an anonymous work attributed to Basil of Caesarea entitled, De beneficentia, or "On beneficence." The text is known from one manuscript dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century, Berlin, Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Phillipps 1467 (gr. 63), a collection of genuine and pseudonymous Basilian homilies. Although pseudonymous and extant (as far as we can determine) only in this sole manuscript, in some quoted fragments from the ninth and twelfth centuries, and in a sixteenth-century Latin translation, De beneficentia, shares a number of characteristics common to social homilies preached in the late fourth and early fifth centuries. This paper discusses the Berlin manuscript text in the context of the known fragments, other spurious, dubious, or pseudonymous homilies attributed to Basil, and its attributed relationship to social preaching in Christian late antiquity, and offers a new edition of the Greek text with its first English translation. This paper introduces an anonymous work attributed to Basil of Caesarea entitled, De beneficentia, or "On beneficence." The text is known from one manuscript dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century, Berlin, Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Phillipps 1467 (gr. 63), a collection of genuine and pseudonymous Basilian homilies. Although pseudonymous and extant (as far as we can determine) only in this sole manuscript, in some quoted fragments from the ninth and twelfth centuries, and in a sixteenth-century Latin translation, De beneficentia, shares a number of characteristics common to social homilies preached in the late fourth and early fifth centuries. This paper discusses the Berlin manuscript text in the context of the known fragments, other spurious, dubious, or pseudonymous homilies attributed to Basil, and its attributed relationship to social preaching in Christian late antiquity, and offers a new edition of the Greek text with its first English translation.

Date of Publication

2012

Physical description

457-481

Title

Vigiliae Christianae

Volume Number

66/5

International Standard Serial Number

1570-0720

Subject Term

(pseudo-)Basil of Caesarea

Subject Term

early Christianity

Subject Term

Greek homiletic

Subject Term

social ethics

Brian J. Matz

Caroline Macé

Susan R. Holman

Call Number

10.1163/157007212X627875

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[Article]

275578

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