Light on creation
Subtitle: ancient commentators in dialogue and debate on the origin of the world
By: edited by Geert Roskam and Joseph Verheyden
Series: Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum -- 104; Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum -- 104.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9783161543142; 9783161555862
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Creation; History of doctrines; Greek Cosmogony; Ancient Cosmogony; Cosmogony; Biblical teaching; Bible
Description: Back cover: How were the two foundational texts dealing with the origin of the world, the third book of Plato's Timaeus and the Genesis account of the creation, interpreted in antiquity? The present volume contains the proceedings of an international colloquium that brought together specialists in (late) ancient philosophy and early Christian studies to reflect on these texts' reception.
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: I. The Middle- and Neoplatonic Tradition.; title: Middle Platonists on the Eternity of the Universe  -- Mauro Bonazzi; title: The Position and Function of the Demiurge in Syrianus's Cosmos  -- Sarah Klitenic Wear; title: Proclus, in Timaeum, II, 340.14-341.24 Diehl. Some Textual Remarks  -- Lorenzo Ferroni; title: How Can the Perceptible World be Perceptible? Proclus on the Causes of Perceptibility  -- Gerd Van Riel -- II. The Christian Tradition.; title: Basil of Caesarea's Exegesis of the Heavens in Homiliae in hexaemeron 3  -- David C. DeMarco; title: The Use of Scripture in Basil's Homilies in Hexaemeron  -- Volker Henning Drecoll; title: Representing the Jews: John Chrysostom's Use of Exegetical and Theological Traditions for Gen 1:26a ( In Gen. hom. 8)  -- Samuel Pomeroy; title: Judaic Authority in Nemesius of Emesa's De natura hominis (390 CE)  -- David L. Dusenbury; title: Christian Apologetics or Confessional Polemics?  -- Benjamin Gleede; title: From Nonbeing to Eternal Well-Being: Creation ex nihilo in the Cosmology and Soteriology of Maximus the Confessor  -- Paul M. Blowers; title: Christ Hero. An Epic Commentary on Creation  -- Clement Kuehn; title: The Debate on Gen 1:1-3 According to Anastasius Sinaita's Hexaemeron  -- Dimitrios Zaganas -- III. Some Other Voices.; title: "The Most Perfect Work": The Role of Matter in Philo of Alexandria  -- Gregory E. Sterling; title: Calcidius between Creatio Ex Nihilo and Platonism  -- Claudio Moreschini; title: Gnostic Views on the Origin and the Nature of the Universe -- Gerard P. Luttikhuizen.