Origen the Sophist: Anti-Sophistic Polemic in Porphyry's "Contra Christianos"

Making use of Beatrice Wyss' "pattern of the disparagement of sophists" for heuristic purposes, this paper argues that the depictions of Christian exegetes and scholars in a fragment of Porphyry's lost work Contra Christianos (fr. 39 Harnack/fr. 6F. Becker) contain literary eleme...

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Main Author: Becker, Matthias 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 07 May 2019
In: Vigiliae Christianae
Year: 2019, Volume: 73, Issue: 2, Pages: 159-173
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Porphyry
B anti-sophistic polemic
B Contra Christianos
B Origen
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