BARDAISAN OF EDESSA AND MEMORIES OF CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION IN THE NEAR EAST∗.
According to Eusebius, the famous Edessene thinker Bardaisan wrote his work On Fate in a time of persecution and addressed it to a figure named Antoninus (HE 4.30). It is commonly surmised that this 'Antoninus' was a Roman emperor who sanctioned Christian persecution in some way. But scholars have v...
| Publicado en: | Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Vol. 62; no. 1; pp. 86 - 106 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2019
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