RT Article
T1 Prescrizioni alimentari e Legge alla luce di alcune esigenze ascetiche nel iii secolo: Le proposte esegetiche di Metodio e Novaziano negli scritti De cibis
JF Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
VO 87
IS 1
SP 175
OP 187
A1 Candido, Federica
LA Italian
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1763771849
AB The paper is a preliminary study of the De cibis by Novaziano and Methodius. The Christian authors, one Latin and the other Greek, both characterized by ascetic interests, write their epistles-treatises more or less in the same period, certainly in the second half of the third century. In the context of a resemantization of the concept of purity, the two works establish that the correct exegesis of the Scriptures, and therefore the correct understanding of the Law, must be considered as a conditio sine qua non to guarantee true purity. Purity, therefore, is no longer a concept linked to a strict adherence to external rules. Who is truly pure, in his heart, his mind and his body, must be able to correctly interpret the Scriptures going further the veil of the letter. (English)
K1 Ascetics
K1 Biblical Commentaries
K1 De cibis
K1 Law
K1 Methodius
K1 Methodius, of Olympus, Saint, d. 311
K1 Metodio
K1 Novatian
K1 Novatianus
K1 Novaziano
K1 RITUAL purity in Christianity
K1 anti-Jewish polemic
K1 Legge
K1 polemica antigiudaica
K1 verginità
K1 Virginity