Diodore of Tarsus’ Treatise Against the Manichaeans: A New Fragment

Diodore of Tarsus’ treatise Against the Manichaeans is well attested in ancient sources. However, modern scholars believe that it is completely lost. This assumption is only partially correct, for there exists a short unpublished fragment, which will be edited hereinafter for the first time. The fra...

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Published in:Vigiliae Christianae
Main Author: Malavasi, Giulio (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Vigiliae Christianae
RelBib Classification:BF Gnosticism
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Diodore of Tarsus Manichaeism Codex Vatopedi 236 Antiochene tradition Greek philosophy
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Summary:Diodore of Tarsus’ treatise Against the Manichaeans is well attested in ancient sources. However, modern scholars believe that it is completely lost. This assumption is only partially correct, for there exists a short unpublished fragment, which will be edited hereinafter for the first time. The fragment, reported in the Clavis Patrum Graecorum, is quoted in an anonymous florilegium of codex Vatopedi 236, entitled ‘Against those who say that human souls pre-exist bodies’. Following the research undertaken by Pedersen and DelCogliano, I will contextualize Diodore’s writing within the Antiochene tradition of anti-Manichaean writings.
ISSN:1570-0720
Contains:In: Vigiliae Christianae
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700720-12341222