Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity by Andrew Jacobs (review)

• Autores: Blossom Stefaniw
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 1, 2018, págs. 151-154
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Celebrity, unlike authority, can be treated less as a trait and more as a transient reflection of a certain historical moment, a groove or fit achieved between an individual and a social environment because of that individual’s perceived ability to embody or express the concerns or ideals of that particular social world. After discussing specific cases of apparent inconsistency but consistent improvisation, Jacobs suggests that the Panarion fits in well with the strategy of Christians in the Theodosian age “to couple the perceived need for institutional rigor with a public style of leadership that could naturalize institutional power” (129). Chapter Five, on scripture, breaks away from the notion of Epiphanius as a literalist to articulate his reading practice as that of the antiquarian Bible, concerned with collecting and cataloguing great masses of information.