STUDIA PATRISTICA

VOL. CXXVI

Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference

on Patristic Studies held
in Oxford 2019

Edited by
MARKUS VINZENT

Volume 23:
Apocrypha et Gnostica
Ignatius of Antioch – The Mysterious Bishop
(Edited by KEVIN KÜNZL)
The Second and Third Centuries

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APOCRYPHA ET GNOSTICA

David E. WILHITE
Jesus in The Infancy Gospel of ‘the Israelite’ and the God of Israel 3

Tarmo TOOM
Theological Basics: Ptolemy’s Theological Introduction to Biblical
Interpretation ....................................................................................... 17

Francesca MINONNE
The Refutation of All Heresies, Gnostics and the Debate on a New
τέχνη γραμματική in Early Christianity ............................................ 29

Robert WILLIAMS
Excerpts from Theodotus: Social Significance of Apostolic Identity
and Boundaries .................................................................................... 39

Guiliano CHIAPPARINI
The Theodotus of Clement of Alexandria was Not a Valentinian?
Analysis of Excerpts from Theodotus 1-3 .......................................... 55

IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH – THE MYSTERIOUS BISHOP

(edited by Kevin KÜNZL)

Kevin KÜNZL
Introduction ......................................................................................... 69

James B. LEAVENWORTH
Wisely Receiving or Foolishly Perishing: Sifting the Variegated
Audience of Ignatius of Antioch ......................................................... 71

Brian W. BUNNELL
Kingdom of God in Ignatius and Paul: A Social-Linguistic Com-
parison of an Early Christian Stock Phrase ........................................ 81

Charles A. BOBERTZ
Ritual Practice and Social Formation in Ignatius of Antioch’s Letter
to the Smyrneans ................................................................................. 93
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Kevin KÜNZL
The Ignatian Eucharist in Transition: Textual Variation as Evidence
for Transformations in Meal Practice and Theology.......................... 99

Markus VINZENT
Ignatian Recensions: What are these and How Many? ..................... 121

Reginardus EYSTETTENSIS
Ignatius Theophorus. Bischof von Antiochia und ganz Syrien, Papst
der Syrisch-orthodoxen Kirche ........................................................... 135

THE SECOND AND THIRD CENTURIES

J. Christopher EDWARDS
The Epistle of Barnabas and the Origins of the Accusation that the
Jews Killed Jesus................................................................................. 147

Robert A. LANE
The Relationship of Purpose, Occasion, and Structure in Irenaeus’
Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching ........................................ 155

Emiliano Rubens URCIUOLI

An Archetypal Blasé? Justin Martyr and the Segmentation of Chris-
tians’ Urban Life ................................................................................. 163

Paul HARTOG
The Hospitality of Noah in 1Clement ................................................. 185

Clayton N. JEFFORD
Why are there no Manuscripts of the Ancient Didache?................... 195

László PERENDY
Tatianus Grammaticus? Tatian’s Discordant Voices about the Achieve-
ments of Greek Grammarians ............................................................. 203

Ian N. MILLS
Tatian’s Diatessaron as ‘Canonical’ Gospel. Walter Bauer and the
Reception of Christian ‘Apocrypha’ ................................................... 215

Monika RECINOVÁ
The Influence of the Commonplace of Xenophanean Philosophical
Theology on Athenagoras of Athens’ Legatio pro Christianis .......... 229
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Janelle PETERS
The Crown and the Games in 2Clement: Healing, Status, and Alms-
giving ................................................................................................... 245

Carson BAY
Pseudo-Hegesippus and the Beginnings of Christian Historiography
in Late Antiquity ................................................................................. 255

Ruth SUTCLIFFE
No Need to Apologise? Tertullian and the Paradox of Polemic
against Persecution .............................................................................. 267

Alex FOGLEMAN
Tertullian as Catechist: The Example of De baptismo ...................... 279

J. Columcille DEVER
Prometheus, Creation, and Christ: Tertullian of Carthage’s Defense
of the Christian Narrative.................................................................... 289

Benjamin CABE
The Engendered Soul in Apelles and Tertullian ................................ 301

István M. BUGÁR
Hippolytus on the Virgin..................................................................... 309

Edwina MURPHY
Fiery Trials and Salvific Water: Cyprian’s Use of 1Peter ................ 317

Joseph E. LENOW
Cyprian on Christ’s Continuing Agency in the Church: The Impor-
tance of Epistle 10 ............................................................................... 327

Matthew ESQUIVEL
Penance and Ecclesial Purity: The Divine Urgency behind Cyprian’s
Response to the Decian Persecution ................................................... 341

Elisa Victoria BLUM

Part of Baptism or Reconciliation? On the impositio manus in the
Baptismal Dispute ............................................................................... 351

Laetitia CICCOLINI
Ongoing Research on the Quod idola dii non sint (CPL 57): The
Question of the Title ........................................................................... 361
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Zachary Cormac ESTERSON

Land of the Apocalypse. The Pannonian Context of Victorinus of
Pettau’s Commentary on Revelation................................................... 371

Alexey MOROZOV
Pour une édition critique du De Resurrectione de Méthode d’Olympe :
Enjeux et problèmes ............................................................................ 397

Nathan TILLEY
Sterile Virgins and Procreative Texts: Platonic Verbal Reproduction
in Methodius’ Symposium ................................................................... 407

Alberto D’INCÀ
Forma feminarum. ‘Feminine’ Ideas in Third-Century Christian North
Africa: An Occasion to Rethink Commodian’s Origins .................... 425
 An Archetypal Blasé?
Justin Martyr and the Segmentation of
Christians’ Urban Life1

Emiliano Rubens URCIUOLI, Max-Weber-Center, Erfurt University, Germany

ABSTRACT
In this article I argue that, unlike small towns and more radically than other large centers,
a megacity like the 2nd-century Rome was liable to produce what Georg Simmel
famously called the ‘psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality’.
Following Simmel’s heuristic track, I will examine the way Justin Martyr’s personality
made it to accommodate to the external forces of the city of Rome, as well as how the
metropolis shaped the way his intellectuality branched out in three intertwined directions:
namely that of a (1) Christ believer, (2) a teacher, and a (3) heresiologist. How did Justin’s
personality, understood as the unifying social surface that provided him with the capacity
of existing in different fields as an agent drawing on heterogeneous socializing experi-
ences, cope with a megacity that was replete with Christ groups, supplied a multitude
of potential students, and sprouted several heresies-to-be? In the conclusion I will push
my arguments to the very limits of the sociological imagination of Justin’s metropolitan
psychic life and urban experience.

Introduction: Putting Simmel into the Mediterranean World

An inquiry into the inner meaning of specifically modern life and its products, into the
soul of the cultural body, so to speak, must seek to solve the equation which structures
like the metropolis set up between the individual and the super-individual contents of
life. Such an inquiry must answer the question of how the personality accommodates
itself in the adjustments to external forces (… den Anpassungen der Persönlichkeit,
durch die sie sich mit den ihr äußeren Mächten abfindet).2

When Georg Simmel penned these words in 1903, his hometown Berlin was
recently given the official status of a Großstadt.3 At the time, urbanization was

1
Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) –
FOR 2779.
2
Georg Simmel, ‘The Metropolis and the Mental Life’, in Georg Simmel, The Sociology of
Georg Simmel, ed. Kurt H. Wolff (New York, 1950 [1903]), 409-24, 409.
3
A social-statistics conference in 1887 defined a metropolis as possessing a minimum population
of 1 million (Millionenstadt). See Iain Boyd White and David Frisby (eds), ‘General introduction’,
in Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 (Berkeley, 2012), 1-5, 2.

Studia Patristica CXXVI, 163-183.

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