عنوان

Origen the Sophist:

شماره

LA129135

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Origen the Sophist:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Anti-Sophistic Polemic in Porphyry's Contra Christianos

نام نخستين پديدآور

Matthias Becker

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Making use of Beatrice Wyss' "pattern of the disparagement of sophists" for heuristic purposes, this paper argues that the depictions of Christian exegetes and scholars in a fragment of Porphyry's lost work Contra Christianos (fr. 39 Harnack/fr. 6F. Becker) contain literary elements of ad hominem attacks which were used in Greek anti-sophistic polemic. Porphyry's allusive language allows for the conclusion that he aimed specifically at casting Origen in the role of a sophist. This hitherto unnoticed component of Porphyry's polemic against the Christians sheds light on how Platonists in the third century viewed Christian intellectuals through a Platonic lens in order to secure their identity against a stereotypical opponent which had ultimately been created by Plato himself. Thus, in Porphyry's view, Christians are, as it were, new foes with old familiar faces. Making use of Beatrice Wyss' "pattern of the disparagement of sophists" for heuristic purposes, this paper argues that the depictions of Christian exegetes and scholars in a fragment of Porphyry's lost work Contra Christianos (fr. 39 Harnack/fr. 6F. Becker) contain literary elements of ad hominem attacks which were used in Greek anti-sophistic polemic. Porphyry's allusive language allows for the conclusion that he aimed specifically at casting Origen in the role of a sophist. This hitherto unnoticed component of Porphyry's polemic against the Christians sheds light on how Platonists in the third century viewed Christian intellectuals through a Platonic lens in order to secure their identity against a stereotypical opponent which had ultimately been created by Plato himself. Thus, in Porphyry's view, Christians are, as it were, new foes with old familiar faces.

تاريخ نشر

2019

توصيف ظاهري

159-173

عنوان

Vigiliae Christianae

شماره جلد

73/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0720

اصطلاح موضوعی

anti-sophistic polemic

اصطلاح موضوعی

Contra Christianos

اصطلاح موضوعی

Origen

اصطلاح موضوعی

Porphyry

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Matthias Becker

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15700720-12341395

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y