The Origin of the de Boor Fragments Ascribed to Philip of Side

• Autores: Luke J Stevens
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 4, 2018, págs. 631-657
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The de Boor Fragments, inserted within a seventh-century epitome of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, are remarkable for preserving snippets of the lost writings of Papias of Hierapolis, Hegesippus, Pierius of Alexandria, and (as now revealed) Eusebius. A new and expanded edition of the fragments is here provided. Special attention is paid to the fragments on Papias, which until now have been presented misleadingly, one of which apparently comes not directly from Papias but from an early intermediary also used independently by George the Monk. While de Boor tentatively ascribed the fragments to Philip of Side, the evidence is here examined that they originate not from Philip but from two strata: some from early scholia in a copy of Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History, and the rest added by the seventh-century epitomist whose work has preserved the fragments. The scholia, in turn, likely originated in the lost continuation of Eusebius’s work by Gelasius of Caesarea and were presumably composed by Gelasius himself.