Polycarp of Smyrna and Ignatius of Antioch

Schoedel, William R.; Haase, Wolfgang

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“…Although the authenticity of the Ignatian letters has been disputed since at least the seventeenth century (Schoedel 1992; Barnes 2008: 119-22; Cobb 2017: 181-85; Hartog 2018), the debate has received renewed energy since the late 1990s and shows few signs of slowing. While Ignatian scholars have continued to study the various textual recensions in which Ignatius’s letters are found (e.g., Smith 2006; Stewart 2013: 111-34; Cobb 2017; Gilliam 2017; Brennecke 2018), the ongoing discussion about date and authorship interrupts the consensus that Ignatius’s letters are authentically Ignatian and date to the early second century.…”

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The Date and Authenticity of the Ignatian Letters: An Outline of Recent Discussions

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Currents in Biblical Research

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This article examines recent studies of the date and authenticity of the letters of Ignatius of Antioch. Although the debate has a long history, this article focuses on the most recent period of this debate—from roughly 1997 through 2018. While not wanting to diminish the differences between contributors to this debate, three general views can be adduced. This article begins by highlighting the major players and formative contributors to each view. Of particular note in this most recent phase of debate is the separation of the date of the letters from the question of their authenticity. The article next turns to consider the primary pieces of evidence that are utilized when considering Ignatius’s date: the historical value of the Eusebian evidence, the possibility of interpolations within Polycarp’s Philippians, and Ignatius’s interactions with Second Sophistic rhetoric. The conclusion inquires about whether there is other evidence that might be utilized to aid scholars in dating and evaluating the Ignatian letters more securely.

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“… 7. See especially Zahn 1873: 491-541; Lightfoot 1889–1891: II.1, 233-430. For more detailed accounts of the history of research, see Schoedel 1992: 286-92, 345-49; Munier 1992; Barnes 2008: 119-22; Prinzivalli and Simonetti 2010: 283-91. …”

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The Reception of the Gospel of John in the Long Recension of Ignatius’s Letters

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The reception of Pauline and Johannine writings in the three centuries after their composition is of interest to NT researchers, and Ignatius of Antioch’s letters have rightly been taken into consideration when studying NT reception history. This article aims to fill a lacuna in reception historical studies of Ignatius’s epistles by exploring the role of John’s gospel in the fourth-century long recension. The long recension employs John when discussing Christology, Trinity, unity, Jewish-Christian identity, resurrection and for polemical purposes. This article thus contributes to ongoing reception historical studies of the NT within Ignatian literature, examines how the Gospel of John was employed by a fourth-century author and explores ways in which John is utilized to expand, update and modify the Ignatian middle recension.

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ticulating that faith and acting it out in ritual and ethics in quite different fashions» 1. «Heresy» indeed usually appears in quotation marks-except in the volume on the years 1815-1914 where one of the editors dispenses with the quotation marks when describing some branches of Catholic Modernism as heretical 2. In most of the volumes, movements branded as heretical receive sympathetic treatment. And the use of «World» reflects another leitmotiv, namely an emphasis on Christianity's global reach and regional diversity. Inevitably the volume on the 20 th century includes two chapters devoted exclusively to Latin America, one to the Caribbean, six to Africa and Asia, and one to Oceania, as well as the six devoted exclusively to Europe and North America. But the volume on the years c.300-600 emphasises the fact that Christianity reached as far east as China and as far south as Ethiopia in that period. Editors were also required to focus on the experiences of the «ordinary Christian» and to consider the social and cultural impact of Christianity as broadly as possible. Another required field was the relationship of Christianity with other faiths or, in more recent times, with secularism and atheism. One major strategic decision by the steering group was to treat Eastern Christianity from the 12 th century to the present day in a separate volume, while the other volumes covering this period would concentrate on Western Christianity and those forms of Christianity stemming from it. Within this general framework editors were free to decide which themes to highlight and which kinds of historian to choose as collaborators. Margaret Mitchell and Frances Young in Origins to Constantine gave more space than the other editors to theology, a major part of the volume being entitled «The Shaping of Christian Theology». Frederick Norris and Augustine Casiday edited Constantine to c.600. They placed special emphasis on the geographical spread of Christianity in that period and on the gradualness of the process by which what became «Christendom» was christianised. Early Medieval Christianity, c.600-c.1100, edited by Julia Smith and Thomas Noble, gave special attention to «Christianity as Lived Experience», including «Birth and Death», «Last Things» and «Gender and the Body». This volume benefited from the fact that Noble, who is based at Notre Dame, the famous Catholic university in Indiana, was able to obtain funding from his university for a conference of his authors, whereas contributors to the other volumes were to a large degree working on their own. Christianity in Western Europe, c.1100-c.1500, edited by Miri Rubin and Walter Simon, highlighted «The Erection of Boundaries», including those between men and women and between heaven and hell, but more especially between Catholic Christianity and those outside, in

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Polycarp of Smyrna and Ignatius of Antioch

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The Date and Authenticity of the Ignatian Letters: An Outline of Recent Discussions

The Date and Authenticity of the Ignatian Letters: An Outline of Recent Discussions

The Reception of the Gospel of John in the Long Recension of Ignatius’s Letters

The Cambridge History of Christianity

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