The Dialogue of Timothy and Aquila and Epiphanius of Salamis
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Caroline Macé
Abstract
Although the Dialogue of Timothy and Aquila is set in Alexandria under the Patriarchate of Cyril (first half of the 5th century), scholars have attempted to identify an earlier version of the text, dating it to the 3d century. This alleged earlier version, however, is not extant as such, and the present article will show that the author of the Dialogue made an extensive use of Epiphanius of Salamis’ De mensuris (dated to 392). The hypothesis that both Epiphanius and the author of the Dialogue used a common source is refuted by a close comparison of the two works in their earliest reconstructable form, taking into account the Georgian-Armenian version of De mensuris and a newly discovered manuscript of the Dialogue.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Patrick Andrist for having introduced me to the Dialogue in 2018, when he offered me to work on it in the framework of the FNS funded project ENLAC in Lausanne (2018–2019); he shared with me not only his bibliography, but also many of his ideas and I am very grateful for his friendship, which has remained undiminished through sometimes difficult circumstances. I would also like to thank Barbara Crostini, who invited me to present a draft of this paper at the Newman Seminar in Uppsala on 24 November 2021: I greatly profited from her and Marianne W. Schiebe’s comments. Finally, I would like to thank Richard Bishop for his thorough revision of this article, and the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg for financial support. The two anonymous reviewers offered useful suggestions to improve this article, which I have tried to implement in the present version.
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