Adam and the Logos: Aphrahat’s Christology in <i>Demonstration </i>17 and the “Imponderables of Hellenization”Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient ChristianitySyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/2FRP5B7J/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.EmanuelFianoAdam and the Logos: Aphrahat’s Christology in <i>Demonstration </i>17 and the “Imponderables of Hellenization”http://syriaca.org/cbss/2FRP5B7Jhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/2FRP5B7Jhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/2FRP5B7JZeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity20:32016437-468Aphrahat’s presumed unawareness of contemporary theological developments has often puzzled scholars, who as a result have deemed his theological views “archaic” and bereft of any Hellenic influence. This image, which has begun to be questioned by a series of studies, can be further corrected by an examination of the central section, dealing with the begetting of Adam, of a Demonstration devoted to proving “that Christ is God and Son of God” (= Dem. 17). The paper argues that in this passage Aphrahat is indebted to an exegetical tradition, attested by Philo of Alexandria, which read in the double account of the creation of Adam in Genesis (1:26–27 and 2:7) a two-staged making of the protoplast. It further proposes that Aphrahat fine-tuned this interpretation through the application to Adam of the prolation of the Logos, a schema that had in Philo its most prominent attestation and had been long appropriated by Greek Christian writers. Finally, it suggests that Demonstration 17 integrates the schema of the prolation with an Adamitic Christology, thus merging theological models traditionally linked to two cultural worlds (respectively Hellenic and Semitic) often posited as largely separate.
Fiano, Emanuel. “Adam and the Logos: Aphrahat’s Christology in Demonstration 17 and the ‘Imponderables of Hellenization.’” Zeitschrift Für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity 20:3 (2016): 437–68.
Emanuel Fiano, Adam and the Logos: Aphrahat’s Christology in Demonstration 17 and the ‘Imponderables of Hellenization,’” Zeitschrift Für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity 20:3 (2016): 437–68.AdamAphrahatChristologyHellenismIV CEIV-VII CEJewish backgroundPhilo