TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacobs,Andrew S.
TI  - Epiphanius of Cyprus: a cultural biography of late antiquity 
T2  - Christianity in late antiquity: The official book series of the North American Patristics Society
SN  - 9780520964983
AV  - BX395.E65 J33 2016
U1  - 270.2092B 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Epiphanius,
KW  - Orthodox Eastern Church
KW  - Bishops
KW  - Biography
KW  - fast
KW  - Christian saints
KW  - Cyprus
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Primitive and early church
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Church / History
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / History
KW  - RELIGION / Ancient
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : Epiphanius, then and now -- Celebrity -- Conversion -- Discipline -- Scriptures -- Salvation -- After lives
N2  - "Epiphanius, Bishop of Contantia on Cyprus from 367-403 C.E., was incredibly influential in the last decades of the fourth century, yet modern scholarship has very little use for him. His major surviving text (the Panarion, an encyclopedia of heresies) is plumbed for lost sources, but Epiphanius himself is often dismissed as an anti-intellectual crank, a marginal figure of late antiquity. This book moves Epiphanius from the margin back toward the center, and proposes we view major cultural themes of late antiquity in a new light altogether. Through an examination of key cultural concepts--celebrity, conversion, discipline, scripture, salvation--this book shifts our understanding of 'late antiquity' from a transformational period open to new ideas and peoples toward a Christian Empire that posited a troubling, but ever-present, 'otherness' at the center of its cultural production. The book includes a consideration of the hagiographic 'afterlives' of Epiphanius, and concludes with a discussion of why modern scholarship finds the fourth-century bishop so troubling"--Provided by publisher
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