Leontius of Byzantium Complete Works

by Daley, SJ, Brian E.

• ISBN13: 9780192846808
• ISBN10: 0192846809
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-10-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Brian E. Daley, SJ, Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame

Brian E. Daley, SJ, is Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is a historical theologian, who specializes in the study of the early Church, particularly the development of Christian doctrine from the fourth to the eighth centuries. His publications include Light on the Mountain: Greek Patristic and Byzantine Homilies on the Transfiguration of the Lord (St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2013) and Hope of the Early Church: A Handbook of Patristic Eschatology (Baker, 2002). In 2014, he co-edited The Harp of Prophecy: Early Christian Interpretation of the Psalms with Paul R. Kolbet (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014).

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
I. The Author and his Times
II. The Works
A. The Six Treatises
B. The Florilegia
III. Leontius the Theologian
IV. The Manuscripts
V. The Scholia
VI. Earlier Editions
VII. This Edition
VIII. Select Bibliography
Key to the apparatus of Leontius's Florilegia
Abbreviations
TEXT AND TRANSLATION
1. Contra Nestorianos et Eutychianos (?ό?o*4a’)
Appendix I (Scholion)
Appendix II (Scholion)
2. Epilyseis (= Solutiones Argumentorum Severi)
3. Epaporēmata (= Triginta Capita contra Severum)
4. Contra Aphthartodocetas (?ό?o*4?’)
5. Deprenhensio et Triumphus super Nestorianos (?ό?*o*4?’)
6. Adversus Fraudes Apollinaristarum
7. Fragmenta Incerta
Appendix III (Excerpta Leontina)
Appendix IV (Tabular comparison of extracts in Leontius s florilegia with those in other ancient and medieval florilegia)