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22Sordi, Marta, Impero Romano e Cristianesimo. Scritti Scelti (review)Augustinianum 47 (2): 425-430. 2007.
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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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20Critical Notice: Patristic Philosophy: A Critical StudyInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 10 (1): 95-108. 2016.
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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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19Aristotle and individual forms: The grammar of the possessive pronouns at metaphysics λ.5, 1071a27–9Classical Quarterly 56 (01): 105-. 2006.
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18Osservazioni sul Concetto di" Giorno Natalizio" nel Mondo Greco e Romano e sull'Espressione di Seneca Dies Aetemi Natali'Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de Las Religiones 6 169. 2001.
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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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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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16Maria-Luisa Rigato, I genitori di Gesù. Una rilettura di Matteo e Luca (review)Augustinianum 54 (1): 291-297. 2014.
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15Cenni conclusivi sull'importanza e sulle novità documentarie del" Chronicon"'Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de Las Religiones 8 73-76. 2003.
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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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14Universalism from Christian beginnings to Julian of Norwich.
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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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12L'inedito Προσ Βασιλεα di TemistioByzantinische Zeitschrift 99 (1): 1-67. 2006.Introduzione Nel codice della sua Bibliotheca consacrato a recensire la produzione letteraria di Temistio, il patriarca Fozio testimonia di aver letto – oltre ad alcune opere filosofiche – un corpus di trentasei discorsi politici (λόγοι πολιτιϰοιλς), tra cui alcuni indirizzati a Costanzo, a Valente e Valentiniano II, a Teodosio, non tutti pervenuti. Ora, l'opera oratoria di Temistio, quale noi moderni leggiamo, comprende trentatrè orazioni, pubbliche e private, di cui due (o forse tre) incomplet…Read more
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10Bardaisan of Edessa: a reassessment of the evidence and a new interpretationGorgias Press. 2009.This groundbreaking monograph on Bardaisan, his relation to Origen, and his Middle Platonic framework has argued, through a painstaking analysis of all evidence, that Bardaisan was a Christian Middle Platonist, a philosophical theologian who built a Logos Christology, possibly the first supporter of apokatastasis, and there is a close relation between Origen, Bardaisan, their thought, and their traditions [further proofs in an edition with essays: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming]. This monograph (and …Read more
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10The Metaphysics of Light in Hexaemeral Literature: From Philo of Alexandria to Gregory of Nyssa. By IsidorosKatsos. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. ix, 248. £70.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 65 (2): 218-220. 2024.The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
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9The Divine as Inaccessible Object of Knowledge in Ancient Platonism: A Common Philosophical Pattern across Religious TraditionsJournal of the History of Ideas 75 (2): 167-188. 2014.
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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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7Bardaisan of Edessa on Free Will, Fate, and Nature: Alexander of Aphrodisias, Origen, and Diodore of TarsusIn Isabelle Chouinard, Zoe McConaughey, Aline Medeiros Ramos & Roxane Noël (eds.), Women’s Perspectives on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 169-176. 2021.Against the backdrop of the relations between Alexander of Aphrodisias and Bardaisan and Origen, and of Diodore of Tarsus’ reading of Bardaisan, this article reflects on Bardaisan’s ideas towards free will, fate, and nature in the so-called Book of the Laws of Countries, based on Bardaisan’s Against Fate. With reference to the article by Izabela Jurasz on the comparison between Alexander and Bardaisan, I present the main topics that scholarship debates regarding Bardaisan and argue that Eusebius…Read more
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6L'inedito "?POS ßASI?EA" di TemistioByzantinische Zeitschrift 99 (1): 1-67. 2006.Introduzione Nel codice della sua Bibliotheca consacrato a recensire la produzione letteraria di Temistio, il patriarca Fozio testimonia di aver letto – oltre ad alcune opere filosofiche – un corpus di trentasei discorsi politici (λόγοι πολιτιϰοιλς), tra cui alcuni indirizzati a Costanzo, a Valente e Valentiniano II, a Teodosio, non tutti pervenuti. Ora, l'opera oratoria di Temistio, quale noi moderni leggiamo, comprende trentatrè orazioni, pubbliche e private, di cui due (o forse tre) incomplet…Read more
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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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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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