Harvard Theological Review articles from July 1996

Harvard Theological Review archives from July 1996

Athenagoras's 'Embassy': a literary fiction.
July 1, 1996... In his 1989 article entitled "Apologetic Literature and Ambassadorial Activities," William R. Schoedel considers "aspects of the form of apologetic literature in the early church and Judaism."(1) More specifically, he attempts to discover...

The tragedy of romance: a case of literary exile. (adoption and adaptation of Greco-Roman literary models in midrashic literature)
July 1, 1996... In the centuries since Tertullian asked, "What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"(2) the dichotomy between these two cities and their respective cultures has assumed almost mythical proportions. Scholars have expended a great deal of...

The phoenix in rabbinic literature.
July 1, 1996... Contact between cultures is a complex phenomenon that often involves accepting foreign ideas until these become new ways of self-expression. The case of the phoenix is of special interest in this respect, because in antiquity it was...

Withdrawing from the desert: Pachomius and the development of village monasticism in upper Egypt.
July 1, 1996... In a recent article entitled "Le monachism egyptien et les villes,"(2) Ewa Wipszycka cataloged for the later Byzantine period the abundant evidence of monastic habitation in or adjacent to the towns and villages of Egypt as well as in or on...

An Irish apocryphal apostle: Muirchu's portrayal of Saint Patrick.
July 1, 1996... In his Vita sancti Patricii.(1) written in the late seventh century,(2) Muirchu depicts St. Patrick, the national apostle of Ireland who lived in the fifth century, with a number of interesting characteristics. In this paper I shall...