Papias’s Appeal to the “Living and Lasting Voice” over Books

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Abbreviations XIII
5. Introduction and Acknowledgments 1
6. Crazy Guy or Intellectual Leader? 7
7. Papias’s Appeal to the “Living and Lasting Voice” over Books 25
8. Tatian, Celsus, and Christianity as “Barbarian Philosophy” in the Late Second Century 45
9. Intellectual independence in Christian and medical discourse of the 2nd–3rd centuries 81
10. Clement and the Catechumenate in the Late Second Century 101
11. Platonism and Stoicism in Clement of Alexandria: “Becoming like God” 129
12. Irenaeus and the ‘Rule of Truth’: A Reconsideration 145
13. Christian, Jewish, and Pagan Authority and the Rise of the Christian Intellectual 165
14. Eusebius’ Gospel Questions and Aristarchus on Homer—Similar Strategies to Save Different ‘Sacred’ Texts 193
15. Bibliography 227
16. Index locorum 249
17. General Index 263