Demonstration of the inauthenticity of the commentary on the Gospels ascribed to Theophilus of Antioch
SKU (ISBN): 978-1-61719-357-6
Publication Status: In Print
Publication Date: Aug 12,2010
Interior Color: Black
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Page Count: 84
Language: German
ISBN: 978-1-61719-357-6
The eminent scholar Adolf Harnack demonstrates that the commentary on the Gospels which survives under the name of the late 2nd-century bishop Theophilus of Antioch cannot be his, but is most likely a derivative work from 6th-century Gaul (and that the manuscript discovery of a full text in Brussels does not change the situation). A classic demolition of an unfounded traditional ascription, relying on both internal and external evidence, to be shelved with Richard Bentley and Lorenzo Valla.