Reading Sin in the World: The Hamartigenia of Prudentius and the Vocation of the Responsible Reader. By Anthony Dykes
Bentley’sChristianorum Maro et Flaccus uses the Hamartigenia’s 63 iambs and 965 hexameters (not ‘966’ [e.g. pp. 241–2]: l. 69 is interpolated) to zap the dead horse of Marcionite dualism. Marcion was shadowed forth by bad-boy Cain, who was in turn ‘raised’ by our rowdily lapsarian first parents (cf....
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 745-747 |
| Review of: | Reading sin in the world (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2011) (Adkin, Neil)
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| Summary: | Bentley’sChristianorum Maro et Flaccus uses the Hamartigenia’s 63 iambs and 965 hexameters (not ‘966’ [e.g. pp. 241–2]: l. 69 is interpolated) to zap the dead horse of Marcionite dualism. Marcion was shadowed forth by bad-boy Cain, who was in turn ‘raised’ by our rowdily lapsarian first parents (cf. Ham. praef. 1–2; 32–9). Dykes’s own preface tells us: ‘All translations of Latin texts … are my own’ (p. xv). If, however, the present Bishop of Middlesbrough, who ‘poured me drinks’ (p. vi), is ‘an excellent Latinist’ (ibid.), the same cannot unfortunately be said of Dykes himself. The first passage he quotes in the text (p. 9) is from Minucius Felix’ Octavius (23.1–2). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flt153 |