The real Cassian revisited [electronic resource] : monastic life, Greek paideia, and Origenism in the sixth century / by P. Tzamalikos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tzamalikos, P. (Panagiōtēs), 1951-

Series:

Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 112.

Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 0920-623X ; v. 112

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Book of Monk Cassian the Roman.

Cassian, the Sabaite, ca. 470-548.

Cassian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (566 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a critical analysis of texts included in Codex 573 (ninth century, Monastery of Metamorphosis, Meteora, Greece), which are published along with the present volume, in the same series. The Codex, entitled ‘The Book of Monk Cassian the Roman’, reveals a sixth-century heretofore unknown intellectual, namely, Cassian the Sabaite, native of Scythopolis, being its real author. By means of Medieval forgery, he has been eclipsed by a figment currently known as ‘John Cassian of Marseilles’, native of Scythia. Exploration reveals critical aspects of the interplay between Hellenism and Christianity, the Origenism and pseudo-Origenism of the sixth century, and Christian influence upon Neoplatonism in Late Antiquity. Cassian the Sabaite is probably the last great representative of a prolonged fruitful autumn of Late Antique Christian scholarship, who saw Hellenism as a treasured patrimony to draw on, rather than as a demon to be exorcised -which resulted in his ‘second death’(Rev. 2,11). Two edition volumes are now being published along with the present monograph. One, A Newly Discovered Greek Father, Cassian the Sabaite Eclipsed by John Cassian of Marseilles (folia 1r-118v). Two, An Ancient Commentary on the Book of Revelation: A Critical Edition of the Scholia in Apocalypsin . These Scholia were falsely attributed to Origen a century ago, but their real author is Cassian the Sabaite mainly drawing on a lost commentary on the Apocalypse by Didymus the Blind, as well as on Origen, Theodoret, Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus, and others (folia 210v-290r).

Contents:

Preliminary Material / P. Tzamalikos

Introduction. Monk Cassian, the Sabaite of Scythopolis in Palestine and John Cassian, the Scythian of Marseilles. The Resurrection of an Eclipsed Author / P. Tzamalikos

Testimonies, Addressees, and Cassian’s Real Milieu / P. Tzamalikos

Cassian the Sabaite / P. Tzamalikos

A Greek Writer / P. Tzamalikos

An Eclipsed Author / P. Tzamalikos

Hellenism in The Sixth Century / P. Tzamalikos

Doctrinal Decorum and Imperial Power / P. Tzamalikos

Late Antique Intellectual Interplay / P. Tzamalikos

Conclusion / P. Tzamalikos

Appendix I. The Book of Cassian Copied by Posterity / P. Tzamalikos

Appendix II. Greek References to Cassian / P. Tzamalikos

Appendix III. Cassian and Caesarius Reviewed By Photius / P. Tzamalikos

Bibliography / P. Tzamalikos

Index of Persons of Antiquity, Locations, and Notions / P. Tzamalikos

Index of Greek Terms and Expressions / P. Tzamalikos

Index of Modern Authors / P. Tzamalikos

ILLUSTRATIONS / P. Tzamalikos.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-69863-2

9786613675590

90-04-22530-7

OCLC:

795779122

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004225305 DOI