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59Origen and the Platonic TraditionReligions 8 (2). 2017.Abstract: This study situates Origen of Alexandria within the Platonic tradition, presenting Origen as a Christian philosopher who taught and studied philosophy, of which theology was part and parcel. More specifically, Origen can be described as a Christian Platonist. He criticized “false philosophies” as well as “heresies,” but not the philosophy of Plato. Against the background of recent scholarly debates, the thorny issue of the possible identity between Origen the Christian Platonist and Or…Read more
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Corpus HermeticumBompiani, Series: Il Pensiero Occidentale. pp. 1627. 2005.Translation, bibliography, commentary, and an updating essay including a translation from the Coptic text of, and a commentary on, the new Nag Hammadi Hermetica.
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I Sette Sapienti. Vite e opinioniBompiani. 2005.Introductory essay, translation, updating and bibliography
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Tutti i commenti a Marziano Capella: Scoto Eriugena, Remigio di Auxerre, Bernardo Silvestre e anonimiBompiani – Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici. Series: Il Pensiero Occidentale. Pp. 2524.. 2006.Essays, improved editions, translations, commentaries, appendixes, bibliography.
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21Gregorio di Nissa Sull'anima e la resurrezioneBompiani, in collaboration with the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. Series: Il Pensiero Occidentale. Pp. 1352.. 2007.Four critical essays (on De Anima, on In Illud: Tunc et Ipse Filius, on Patristic Platonism, and on the doctrine of apokatastasis in Gregory of Nyssa and Origen), new Greek edition of De anima also based on the Coptic version predating every Greek manuscript, translations of, and commentaries on, both De Anima and In Illud: Tunc et Ipse Filius, appendixes (on the Syriac and Coptic translations of De Anima and on its reception among the Cambridge Platonists, with the first Italian translation of …Read more
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17Possible Historical Traces in the Doctrina AddaiGorgias. Analecta Gorgiana Series 399.. 2009.The Teaching of Addai is a Syriac document convincingly dated by some scholars in the fourth or fifth century AD. I agree with this dating, but I think that there may be some points containing possible historical traces that go back even to the first century AD, such as the letters exchanged by king Abgar and Tiberius. Some elements in them point to the real historical context of the reign of Abgar ‘the Black’ in the first century. The author of the Doctrina might have known the tradition of som…Read more
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I Cristiani e l’Impero romanoMarietti. 2011.Il libro, diviso in quattro sezioni, mette in luce un'indagine storica del tutto originale di documenti noti e meno noti sulla figura di Gesù in fonti non cristiane del I secolo; su come il cristianesimo fu conosciuto a Roma già nel I secolo; sulle allusioni al cristianesimo nei romanzi e nelle satire pagane del I-II secolo; su alcuni esempi della prima diffusione del cristianesimo dal Vicino Oriente all'India.
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Terms for Eternity. Αἰώνιος and ἀίδιος in Classical and Christian AuthorsGorgias. 2007; 2011; 2013.What is truly timeless? This book explores the language of eternity, and in particular two ancient Greek terms that may bear the sense of eternal : aiônios and aïdios. This fascinating linguistic chronicle is marked by several milestones that correspond to the emergence of new perspectives on the nature of eternity. These milestones include the advent of Pre-Socratic physical speculation and the notion of limitless time in ancient philosophy, the major shift in orientation marked by Plato s idea…Read more
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30Tempo ed eternità in età antica e patristica: filosofia greca, ebraismo e cristianesimoCittadella. Monograph in 236 pages.. 2015.Questa monografia esamina in modo chiaro e conciso ma rigoroso e articolato le concezioni di tempo ed eternità nella filosofia greca, nella Bibbia e nella Patristica. Mostra come i Cristiani criticassero la nozione stoica di ripetizione infinita di evi in cui rivivono le stesse persone compiendo gli stessi atti, in quanto opposta al progresso morale, e ponessero invece l’eternità metafisica platonica alla fine del tempo storico, come luogo di retribuzione e partecipazione all’eternità divina.
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2Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms (edited book)Mohr Siebeck; WUNT: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament I 348. Pp. 373.. 2015.The authors of this volume elucidate the remarkable role played by religion in the shaping and reshaping of narrative forms in antiquity and late antiquity in a variety of ways. This is particularly evident in ancient Jewish and Christian narrative, which is in the focus of most of the contributions, but also in some “pagan” novels such as that of Heliodorus, which is dealt with as well in the third part of the volume, both in an illuminating comparison with Christian novels and in an inspiring …Read more
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2Evagrius between Origen, the Cappadocians, and NeoplatonismPeeters. 2017.This volume collects the thoroughly revised and expanded versions of the papers, with the relevant response, presented at two interrelated workshops at the 2015 Oxford Patristics Conference, on theology and philosophy between Origen and Gregory of Nyssa, and on theology in Evagrius Ponticus between Origen, the Cappadocians, and Neoplatonism. This volume contributes innova- tive research into core theological issues in Evagrius and the Cappadocians, also against the backdrop of Origen’s thought a…Read more
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16I romanzi antichi e il Cristianesimo: contesto e contattiWipf & Stock, Cascade Books. 2001; 2012.Ramelli undertakes for the first time a systematic investigation of the possible knowledge of Christianity in a group of novels, all dated between the first and third century CE, and belonging to geographical areas in which Christianity was present at that time. She endeavors to point out the meaning that possible allusions had for the public addressed by those novels. . . . The results of her research are, in my opinion, of the highest interest. . . . Her work seems to me to be most helpful and…Read more
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55Cultura e religione etrusca nel mondo romano. La cultura etrusca alla fine dell'indipendenzaEdizioni dell'Orso, Studi di Storia Greca e Romana 8.. 2003.Monograph in six chapters, plus introductory essay, conclusions, two appendixes, notes, and bibliography.
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Anneo Cornuto, Compendio di teologia grecaBompiani - Catholic University, Il Pensiero Occidentale. Pp. 607.. 2003.Edition of the Greek text, monographic introductory essay, monographic integrative essay, translation, full commentary, bibliography.
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Allegoria, 1: L'età classicaVita e Pensiero, Temi metafisici e problemi del pensiero antico. 2004.This cutting-edge monograph has extensively demonstrated that allegoresis was part and parcel of philosophy, and more specifically a tool of philosophical theology, in Stoicism and Middle and Neoplatonism, “pagan” and Christian alike. Many Stoics and ‘pagan’ Platonists applied philosophical allegoresis to theological myths, and this operation provided the link between theology and physics (in the case of the Stoics) or metaphysics (in the case of the Platonists). Many Christian Platonists in tur…Read more
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Il βασιλεύς come νόμος ἔμψυχος tra diritto naturale e diritto divino: spunti platonici del concetto e sviluppi di età imperiale e tardoantica (Marcello Gigante Prize 2006)Bibliopolis, Memoirs of the Italian Institute of Philosophical Studies 34. 2006.Il presente studio si pone in ideale continuità con l’opera di Marcello Gigante Nomos Basileus, analisi fondamentale della nascita e delle interrelazioni tra diritto naturale, diritto divino e diritto positivo nel mondo greco, prendendo le mosse proprio dal punto in cui questi aveva interrotto la sua indagine, ossia sulle concezioni platoniche del nomos e le sue connessioni con il divino, l’anima e l’educazione. In Platone sono rintracciate le premesse teoretiche della concezione, poi diffusa in…Read more
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Allegoristi dell’età classicaBompiani - Catholic university. 2007.Editions of, translations of, and essays and commentaries on: Ancient Stoics (pp. 1-107), Apollodorus of Athens (pp. 111-217), Crates of Mallus (pp. 219-327), Palaephatus (pp. 329-365), authors De Incredibilibus (pp. 367-400), Conon (pp. 401-442), Cicero ND II-III (pp. 443-483), Cornutus (pp. 485-560), Heraclitus Grammaticus (pp. 561-669), Chaeremon (pp. 671-707), Ps. Plutarch, De Vita et Poesi Homeri (pp. 709-820), Plutarch, De Daedalis Plataeensibus (pp. 821-832); Cebetis Tabula (pp. 833-860),…Read more
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1Evagrius Ponticus' Kephalaia GnostikaSBL. 2015.This innovative book, in its monographic introduction and systematic commentary (and English translation from the Syriac based on new readings from the ms.), provides a thorough reassessment of Evagrius’ philosophical theology, Christology, and anthropology. It argues, e.g., that Evagrius is authentically Origenian, not Origenistic, nor Christologically subordinationist, and Nyssen influenced him more than usually assumed. New linguistic evidence is adduced for the differentiation of bodies in …Read more
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86Go to Online Edition Ilaria L. E. Ramelli The theory of apokatastasis (restoration), most famously defended by the Alexandrian exegete, philosopher and theologian Origen, has its roots in both Greek philosophy and Jewish-Christian Scriptures and literature, and became a major theologico-soteriological doctrine in patristics. This monograph—the first comprehensive, systematic scholarly study of the history of the Christian apokatastasis doctrine—argues its presence and Christological and Biblical…Read more
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7Maureen Beyer Moser, Teacher of Holiness. The Holy Spirit in Origen’s Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (review)Augustinianum 46 (1): 265-269. 2006.
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2Aristotle and individual forms: The grammar of the possessive pronouns at metaphysicsλ.5, 1071a27–9Classical Quarterly 56 (1): 105-112. 2006.
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49Henryk Pietras, SJ., L’escatologia della Chiesa: Dagli scritti giudaici fino al IV secolo (review)Augustinianum 48 (1): 247-253. 2008.
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22Sordi, Marta, Impero Romano e Cristianesimo. Scritti Scelti (review)Augustinianum 47 (2): 425-430. 2007.
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16Maria-Luisa Rigato, I genitori di Gesù. Una rilettura di Matteo e Luca (review)Augustinianum 54 (1): 291-297. 2014.
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27Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery: The Role of Philosophical Asceticism From Ancient Judaism to Late AntiquityOxford University Press UK. 2016.Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery shows that there were definitive condemnations of slavery and social injustice as iniquitous and even impious, in antiquity and late antiquity. Ilaria L. E. Ramelli highlights that these came especially from ascetics, both in Judaism and in Christianity, and occasionally also in Greco-Roman philosophy. Ramelli argues that this depends on a link not only between asceticism and renunciation, but also between asceticism and justice, at least in ancient a…Read more
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37The Jesus Movement’s flight to Pella and the “Parting of the Ways”Augustinianum 54 (1): 35-51. 2014.After a contextualisation concerning Pella in the Roman Decapolis and the Decapolis itself as the theatre of Jesus’ teaching, this essay analyses the question of the flight of many members of the Jesus movement to Pella during the conflict with the Romans in the Jewish War. I shall evaluate Eusebius’s piece of information and shall endeavour to connect it to the larger issue of the so-called “parting of the ways” between the Jesus movement and Judaism – or the construal of this “parting of ways”…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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