Byzantine Christianity: A Very Brief History. By AverilCameron. Pp. xvii, 138, London, SPCK, 2017, £7.99/$7.81.

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 755-755
Author(s):  
Patrick Madigan
Keyword(s):  
Byzantine Christianity

Reception of the Septuagint among Greek Christian Writers

2021 ◽  
pp. 587-604
Author(s):  
Reinhart Ceulemans
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Popular Texts ◽  
Byzantine Christianity

This chapter opens by explaining how profoundly patristic and Byzantine Christianity was shaped by the LXX. Not only learned literature (to which the chapter confines itself) but also popular texts, non-literary documents, buildings, ceremonies, etc. testify to the deep but diverse impact that the LXX had on everyday life. In the first of two main sections, the chapter discusses the ways in which Greek Christianity received and transmitted the text of the LXX (and of related Greek versions). The various forms in which the LXX was explained are presented in the following part, which combines a general image with a treatment of the catena format in particular. Throughout the chapter, particular aspects are highlighted with regard to which modern (Western) LXX scholarship still strongly depends (whether it realizes it or not) on views developed by patristic and Byzantine Christians.

Greek

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-22
Author(s):  
William Adler
Keyword(s):  
Second Temple ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Second Temple Judaism ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Eusebius Of Caesarea ◽  
Byzantine Christianity

Christian authors and scribes are mainly responsible for the relatively intact survival of the writings of Philo and Josephus, along with the scattered fragments from various other Hellenistic Jewish apologists, commentators, historians, and poets. Byzantine Christianity is also a valuable witness to the Greek text of Second Temple parabiblical writings. Among other things, Christian authors found in these sources insights into the meaning of the biblical text, confirmation of the truth and antiquity of Christian teachings, and raw material for historiography. Christian authors and scribes are mainly responsible for the relatively intact survival of the writings of Philo and Josephus, along with scattered fragments from Jewish apologists, commentators, historians, and poets of the Hellenistic age. Clement, Origen, and Eusebius of Caesarea (among others) found in these sources confirmation of the truth and antiquity of Christian teachings, and raw material for historiography. While official categorization of parabiblical works from Second Temple Judaism as “apocrypha” may have eroded confidence in their authority, it did not ensure their demise. As late as the 12th century, Byzantine chroniclers and commentators continued to cite approvingly from the Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees.

Byzantine Christianity

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (07) ◽  
pp. 44-3813-44-3813
Keyword(s):  
Byzantine Christianity

Some Remarks on Free Will and Predestination in Islam, together with a translation of the Kitabu-l Qadar from the Sahih of al-Bukhari

1924 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-63
Author(s):  
Alfred Guillaume
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Byzantine Christianity

The problem of reconciling man's free will with God's omnipotent will and prescience has exercised the minds of the theologians of those religions which claim to present an almighty and a moral god to their votaries. In the following pages my aim is to show how the Muhammadan dogma of Determinism, despite the revolt of the most vigorous thinkers of the early Muslim church, was developed and consolidated; to indicate in more detail than earlier writers how dependent that reaction was on Byzantine Christianity; and how completely has been put to flight by in the traditions universally accepted as authentic.

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