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Epicureanism and Early ChristianityIn Phillip Mitsis (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Epicureanism, . pp. 582-612. 2020.Many fragments and testimonies in Usener’s collection, Epicurea, come from ancient Christian sources. This essay explores Patristic interest in Epicureanism, which is often critical, and sometimes imprecise or distorted, but tangible. It shows how the fading away of the availability and use of good sources on Epicureanism, along with the disappearance of the Epicurean school itself, brought about a progressive impoverishment and hostility among Christian authors with respect to Epicurus and Epic…Read more
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Autobiographical Self-Fashioning in OrigenIn Maren R. Niehoff & Joshua Levinson (eds.), Self, Self-Fashioning and Individuality in Late Antiquity, . 2019.In this paper, the “self” is understood in broad terms as one’s character and personality, based on Christopher Gill’s notion of the self in Hellenistic and imperial philosophy. Moreover, my use of “self-fashioning” —that is, one’s creation of an image of oneself—in ancient Christianity, is built on the work of Carol Newsom and Eve-Marie Becker. The latter focusses on Paul, who is Origen’s hero and may even have inspired Origen’s own strategies of self-fashioning as an inspired preacher of C…Read more
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Jesus of Nazareth, in The Oxford Classical Dictionary, digital edition, ed. Sander Goldberg, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser, and Tim Whitmarsh, Oxford: OUP, 2021.Oxford Classical Dictionary. forthcoming.
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Review of Maria Conterno, Temistio Orientale, Brescia: Paideia Editrice, 2014, (review)Review of Biblical Literature 2019. 2019.
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24Lovers of the Soul, Lovers of the Body: Philosophical and Religious Perspectives in Late AntiquityHarvard University Press. 2020.Edited by Svetla S. Griffin and Ilaria L.E. Ramelli. Harvard University Press, Hellenic Studies 88, 2019, ca 600 pages. ISBN-10: 0674241320; ISBN-13: 978-0674241329. Contributors: Luc Brisson, Kevin Corrigan, John Dillon, Harold Tarrant, John Turner, John Finamore, Ilaria Ramelli, Karla Pollmann, Carlos Lévy, Lenka Karfíková, Pauliina Remes, Mark J. Edwards, Pier Franco Beatrice, Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Aaron Johnson, Dimka Gocheva, Olivier Dufault, and Robert Hannah.
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Porphyry and the Motif of Christianity as παράνομοςIn John F. Finamore (ed.), Platonism and its Legacy, The Prometheus Trust. pp. 173-198. 2019.
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5Annaeus Cornutus and the Stoic Allegorical Tradition: Meaning, Sources, and ImpactAITIA: Regards Sur la Culture Hellénistique 2 ( 8.2 (2018)). 2019.
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2Paul on Apokatastasis: 1 Cor 15:24-28 and the Use of ScriptureIn Stanley Porter & Christopher Land (eds.), Paul and Scripture, Brill. 2019.
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1The Role of Allegory, Allegoresis, and Metaphor in Paul and OrigenJournal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism 14 130-157. 2018.
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14Universalism from Christian beginnings to Julian of Norwich.
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A reappraisal of Gregory Nyssen's thought on mind-body relations, with many new insights, analysis of sources and discussion of scholarship.
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Revisitation of the much debated issue of the mind-body relation in Origen, with new insights, discussion of evidence, and of scholarship.
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14"Gregory of Nyssa on the Soul (and the Restoration): From Plato to Origen," in: Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, eds Anna Marmodoro and Neil McLynn, Oxford: OUP, 2018, ISBN: 9780198826422, pp. 110-141.In Neil McLynn Anna Marmodoro (ed.), Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, eds Anna Marmodoro and Neil McLynn, Oxford: OUP, 2018, ISBN: 9780198826422. 2018.This essay situates Gregory’s treatment of the soul—especially, but not exclusively, in his dialogue On the Soul and the Resurrection—within the philosophical tradition of treatises On the Soul (περὶ ψυχῆς, to which he significantly added the Christian component περὶ ἀναστάσεως) and in conversation with Origen’s complex psychology. While Origen never wrote a work On the Soul, for precise reasons, he did write one On the Resurrection. His older contemporary Tertullian composed both a work On the …Read more
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Caritone e la storiografia greca. Il 'tomanzo di Calliroe' come romanzo storico anticoACME: Annali della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell'Università degli studi di Milano 53 (1): 43-62. 2000.
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20Book review: Plato Revived. Essays on Ancient Platonism in Honour of Dominic J. O’Meara, written by Filip Karfík and Euree Song (review)International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 8 (2): 237-244. 2014.
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20Prophecy in OrigenJournal of Early Christian History 7 17-39. 2017.While virtually all of the few scholars who have dealt with the subject of prophecy in Origen of Alexandria have limited their analysis to Origen’s Contra Celsum, the present essay will take into consideration the most remarkable insights from all of Origen’s extant literary output, including his definitions of prophecy, which can significantly enrich our understanding of the value, sources, and functions of prophecy according to Origen. Fruitful comparisons with Philo, Clement, Eusebius, and Pl…Read more
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The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature (I. Ramelli)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 99 (3): 558. 2007.
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Filosofia emendata. Elementi connessi col Neoplatonismo nell'esegesi esamerale di Gregorio di Nissa (I. Ramelli)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 99 (3): 553. 2007.
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38Histoire de la littérature grecque chrétienne des origines à 451. Volume 1: Introduction: problèmes et perspectives. Volume 2: De Paul de Tarse à Irénée de Lyon. Second edition. Edited by Bernard Pouderon and Enrico Norelli . Pp. 406 and 865. (Collection L’Âne d’Or.) Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2016. ISBN 978 2 251 42064 6 and 42065 3. Paper €35 and €55 (review)Journal of Theological Studies 69. 2018.
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14Review of Gregory E. Sterling (ed.), Studies in Philo in Honor of David Runia, Studia Philonica annual: studies in Hellenistic Judaism, volume XXVII (2016), Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016, ISBN 9780884141815, «Bryn Mawr Classical Review» July 2017 (Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.07.16) (review)Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017. 2017.
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51Review of Teresa Morgan, Roman faith and Christian faith: pistis and fides in the early Roman empire and early churches, (review)Journal of Roman Studies 107. 2017.
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26Il Chronicon di Arbela: presentacione [sic], traducione [sic] e note essenzialiUniversidad Complutense. 2003.Monographic study, translation and commentary on this important but controversial document for the history of the early Church.
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2This essay investigates Clement’s terminology related to allegorical exegesis of Scripture (μυστήριον first of all, but also αἴνιγμα, τύπος, ἀλληγορία, παραβολή etc.), as well as theoretical and methodological issues related to Biblical allegoresis (i.e. the figural, spiritual exegesis of the Bible, which is taken to contain allegories or metaphorical, figural expressions), the influence of Stoic allegoresis of theological myths on Clement’s allegoresis of Scripture, and the impact of Philo’s Bi…Read more
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Sacred Heart UniversityAlumnus (MA, MA, Postdoc), Then Fellow
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Durham UniversityProfessor, Hon.
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Cambridge UniversityMember, Centre for The Study of Platonism
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Angelicum (US)Graduate SchoolDistinguished Professor
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Princeton UniversitySenior Fellow
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