Epiphanius of Cyprus
A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2016
352 pages
978-0-520-96498-3 (ISBN)
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Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus from 367 to 403 C.E., was incredibly influential in the last decades of the fourth century. Whereas his major surviving text (the Panarion, an encyclopedia of heresies) is studied for lost sources, Epiphanius himself is often dismissed as an anti-intellectual eccentric, a marginal figure of late antiquity. In this book, Andrew Jacobs moves Epiphanius from the margin back toward the center and proposes we view major cultural themes of late antiquity in a new light altogether. Through an examination of the key cultural concepts of celebrity, conversion, discipline, scripture, and salvation, Jacobs shifts our understanding of "late antiquity" from a transformational period open to new ideas and peoples toward a Christian Empire that posited a troubling, but ever-present, "otherness" at the center of its cultural production.
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Andrew S. Jacobs is Professor of Religious Studies and Mary W. and J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Humanities at Scripps College in Claremont, California. He is the author of Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity and Christ Circumcised: A Study in Early Christian History and Difference.
Andrew S. Jacobs is Professor of Religious Studies and Mary W. and J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Humanities at Scripps College in Claremont, California. He is the author of Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity and Christ Circumcised: A Study in Early Christian History and Difference.
Content
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Epiphanius, Now and Then
1. Celebrity
2. Conversion
3. Discipline
4. Scripture
5. Salvation
6. After Lives
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Epiphanius, Now and Then
1. Celebrity
2. Conversion
3. Discipline
4. Scripture
5. Salvation
6. After Lives
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
