By Florentino Garcia Martinez, Gerard P Luttikhuizen
The current quantity has been compiled by means of colleagues and acquaintances as a tribute to Dr. A. Hilhorst, the Secretary of the magazine for the examine of Judaism, at the celebration of his sixty fifth birthday. Its 23 contributions via well known overseas specialists, replicate a few of the pursuits of the honouree, his method of the Classical and Semitic languages and literatures as forming a part of a continuum, and his cognizance to the interactions among the various literary corpora.
Several contributions care for the interplay of the outdated testomony with later Jewish, Gnostic, or Christian writings; others discover the impacts of Greek writings inside of a Jewish context on the degrees of philology, of theological principles, of realia, or of effect of literary compositions. additionally, a couple of contributions facilities at the interplay of Greek factors in Jewish and Christian literature, while in different others the focal point is at the Martyrium literature or on early Christian texts.
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At first, they did not have large numbers of adherents in North Africa, but political and other developments had caused a regular stream of immigrants, many Arians among them, to come to North Africa and mix up with the local population. Not only in Carthage, but in Hippo too Arians had made their appearance,3 and more than once Augustine entered into a discussion with them. At the end of Sermo 229O, preached during Easter-week about the year 420, he mentions with great joy that an Arian debater, who with three colleagues had challenged him, at the end of the dispute had abjured Arius and had become a catholic.
In the present hymn God’s eternity is focussed and contrasted with the temporality of his creation. As to the third verse, in their articles and comments scholars try to come to terms with the precise syntactical structure and the meaning of temporum . . tempora. ). 8 Remarkably, however, if not downright amazingly, Ambrose’s masterly use of polyptoton seems wasted on the learned readers. I am unable to think of a better way to express time’s plurality over against eternity’s singularity. One comes across other fine and functional specimens of polyptoton in ancient poetry and rhetoric, but here the iconic handling of this figure of speech by Ambrose is truly outstanding.
The eleventh book of the Confessiones is fascinating in that it makes so clearly manifest that philosophical analysis is not necessarily a merely abstract exercise, but can lead to shattering discoveries which involve one’s entire person. Nevertheless, it is primarily a philosophical way to deal with time. There are other ways in which time can be experienced. 3 In his explanation of in principio fecit deus caelum et terram (Gen 1:1) he introduces Exod 12:2 mensis hic initium mensuum erit uobis.