An edition of Light on creation
(2017)
Light on creation
ancient commentators in dialogue and debate on the origin of the world
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Back cover: How were the two foundational texts dealing with the origin of the world, the third book of Plato's Timaeus and the Genesis account of the creation, interpreted in antiquity? The present volume contains the proceedings of an international colloquium that brought together specialists in (late) ancient philosophy and early Christian studies to reflect on these texts' reception.
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Creation, History of doctrines, Greek Cosmogony, Ancient Cosmogony, Cosmogony, Biblical teaching, Bible, PlatoPeople
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Light on creation: ancient commentators in dialogue and debate on the origin of the world
2017, Mohr Siebeck
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Table of Contents
I. The Middle- and Neoplatonic Tradition.
Middle Platonists on the Eternity of the Universe -- Mauro Bonazzi
The Position and Function of the Demiurge in Syrianus's Cosmos -- Sarah Klitenic Wear
Proclus, in Timaeum, II, 340.14-341.24 Diehl. Some Textual Remarks -- Lorenzo Ferroni
How Can the Perceptible World be Perceptible? Proclus on the Causes of Perceptibility -- Gerd Van Riel -- II. The Christian Tradition.
Basil of Caesarea's Exegesis of the Heavens in Homiliae in hexaemeron 3 -- David C. DeMarco
The Use of Scripture in Basil's Homilies in Hexaemeron -- Volker Henning Drecoll
Representing the Jews: John Chrysostom's Use of Exegetical and Theological Traditions for Gen 1:26a ( In Gen. hom. 8) -- Samuel Pomeroy
Judaic Authority in Nemesius of Emesa's De natura hominis (390 CE) -- David L. Dusenbury
Christian Apologetics or Confessional Polemics? -- Benjamin Gleede
From Nonbeing to Eternal Well-Being: Creation ex nihilo in the Cosmology and Soteriology of Maximus the Confessor -- Paul M. Blowers
Christ Hero. An Epic Commentary on Creation -- Clement Kuehn
The Debate on Gen 1:1-3 According to Anastasius Sinaita's Hexaemeron -- Dimitrios Zaganas -- III. Some Other Voices.
"The Most Perfect Work": The Role of Matter in Philo of Alexandria -- Gregory E. Sterling
Calcidius between Creatio Ex Nihilo and Platonism -- Claudio Moreschini
Gnostic Views on the Origin and the Nature of the Universe -- Gerard P. Luttikhuizen.
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International conference proceedings.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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