Jan Willem Drijvers

Cyril of Jerusalem: Bishop and City

Preface Abbreviations Introduction I. Jerusalem in the Fourth Century II. Life and Works III. Bishop, City and Liturgy IV. Pagans, Heretics, Jews, Gnostics and Manichaeans V. Rebuilding of the Temple VI. Promoting Jerusalem Epilogue Appendices I. Cyril and Arianism II. Services celebrated by the Bishop of Jerusalem III. Letter attributed to Cyril on the Rebuilding of the Temple Principal Ancient Sources Bibliography Index Plans 1. Jerusalem in the Fourth Century 2. Church of the Holy Sepulchere

Ammianus, Jovian, and the Syriac Julian Romance

Scholars have not paid much attention to the reign of Jovian (363–364) and the appreciation of his brief rule is in general not particularly positive. At its best Jovian is considered a mediocre emperor whose impact on the empire was not great. Largely responsible for this image is Jovian’s contemporary Ammianus Marcellinus, who offers the fullest account of his rule. Other, more favorable information is offered by Christian sources. A diametrically opposed picture of Jovian’s reign to that of Ammianus is offered by a text known as the Syriac Julian Romance. This Christian text of historical fiction, composed most probably in Edessa possibly in the early sixth century, has attracted little scholarly attention. However, this text of Christian polemical character is most interesting for the image it sketches of Jovian, who is presented as the ideal Christian emperor, as well as for the completely pitch-black picture it presents of Jovian’s predecessor Julian. In this study the opposite images of Jovian as presented by Ammianus on the one hand and the Julian Romance on the other are compared and explained. For Ammianus Julian came close to the ideal emperor whereas Jovian could not live up to his standards of what an emperor should be like; in particular his peace treaty with Shapur II is heavily criticized. The Christian Julian Romance reviles Julian and presents Jovian as new Constantine who restored Christianity and concluded peace with Shapur for the higher purpose of freedom of religion for Christians in the Persian Empire.

Portraits of Spiritual Authority

This study of several figures of spiritual authority in early Christianity (2nd-8th centuries) examines how the struggle for religious power developed with the changing relationships between church and society.

Pilgerwege ins "Heilige Land": Beiträge zur Religionsgeografie der Alten Kirche ed. by Ulrich Fellmeth, Ulrich Mell (review)

injunctions, and (often patrician) ancient attitudes toward work and religious entrepreneurs—perhaps inevitably, somewhat peripatetic in their chronological and geographical contexts—store up rich rewards for the later chapters (which constitute the real heart of the book). Its signal merit is to open up new vistas: not least, in its tantalizing pan-Eurasian coda (pp. 114–18), which leaves the reader with a sense that Brown—and no doubt many others—will continue to worry about the “poor” in late antiquity for some time to come.

Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXX

Email: marketing@brill.com This commentary is the fifth volume in a series of commentaries on the fourth-century historian Ammianus Marcellinus, which continues the commentaries by P. de Jonge on Books XIV-IXX. In XXIV the Persian expedition of Julian is described, from its successful start until the failure to take the capital Ctesiphon. The commentary deals both with the philological, literary and linguistic problems in the Latin text and with the historical and geographical details that are necessary for an understanding of the course of events. Special attention is given to the author’s highly personal involvement as a participant in the expedition.