"The Hostile Devices of the Demented Demons": Tatian on Astrology and Pharmacology
Approximately one-third of the Oration to the Greeks composed by Tatian the Assyrian is devoted to exposing the origin and current activity of demons in human affairs. The primary goal of the present article is to elucidate the source and logic of Tatian's demonology, specifically as it relates...
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
[2021]
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Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 31-60 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tatianus, Syrus -172, Oratio ad Graecos
/ Demonology
/ Astrology
/ Pharmacology
/ Enoch
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| IxTheo Classification: | BE Greco-Roman religions CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations CF Christianity and Science HD Early Judaism KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBH Angelology; demonology |
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| 520 | |a Approximately one-third of the Oration to the Greeks composed by Tatian the Assyrian is devoted to exposing the origin and current activity of demons in human affairs. The primary goal of the present article is to elucidate the source and logic of Tatian's demonology, specifically as it relates to astrological fate and pharmacology, the two "hostile devices of the demented demons" that he denounces. I argue, first, that his focus upon these two areas is not by chance, but is due to the influence of 1 Enoch, since, like 1 Enoch, he holds that these domains of human expertise derive from malevolent heavenly beings. I argue, second, that Tatian's criticisms of both astrology and pharmacology are structurally analogous insofar as he claims both are purely the product of demonic contrivance. As a result, these seeming areas of knowledge are in fact based upon nothing real or natural about the world but are instead arbitrary and nonsensical. Moreover, Tatian's emphasis upon demonic delusion serves the polemical goal of his Oration in an additional way, since it casts the demons as a foil for Tatian himself. Unlike the demons, whom he compares to bandits, Tatian speaks as a representative of the true world order and its one legitimate ruler, and he offers his own Oration as a kind of harsh logotherapy that can accomplish the very thing the demons mendaciously claim to be able to effect through astrology and pharmacology. | ||
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