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Ausgabe:

Juni/2017

Spalte:

632–634

Kategorie:

Kirchengeschichte: Alte Kirche, Christliche Archäologie

Autor/Hrsg.:

Arnold, Johannes

Titel/Untertitel:

DerWahre Logos des Kelsos. Eine Strukturanalyse.

Verlag:

Münster: Aschendorff Verlag 2016. IX, 627 S. = Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum – Ergänzungsbände, 39. Geb. EUR 85,00. ISBN 978-3-402-10807-9.

Rezensent:

Anders-Christian Jacobsen

Johannes Arnold presents a very comprehensive and impressing analysis of the structure of Celsus’ The True Doctrine. A.’s project is ambitious. He rejects all previous analyses of the structure in The True Doctrine with the claim that scholars have been too ready to accept the organization of the fragments of The True Doctrine that we find in Origen’s Contra Celsum. A.’s claim is that Origen restructured the material, which he quoted from The True Doctrine, much more radically than anybody has suggested until now. A. supports this thesis with very, very detailed analyses. His book is almost 600 ›oversize‹ pages. This makes the reading demanding.
The book has three main parts: In the first part, A. presents and discusses the previous ...


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