Bardaisan of Edessa: A Reassessment of the Evidence and a New Interpretation / / Ilaria L. E. Ramelli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Ramelli, Ilaria L. E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (402 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; 1. BY WAY OF INTRODUCTORY ESSAY: METHODOLOGICAL GUIDELINES --; 2. CRITICAL AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SOURCES --; 3. CONCLUSIONS AND CONTRIBUTION TO RESEARCH --; ESSENTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES ON BARDAIṢAN --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463216658; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463216658
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ilaria L. E. Ramelli.

This comprehensive study offers a critical, comparative analysis of the sources available on Bardaisan and a reinterpretation of his thought. The study highlights the profound points of contact between Bardaisan, Origen, and their schools; the role of Plato’s Timaeus and Middle Platonism in Bardaisan’s thought, and Stoicism. Bardaisan’s thought emerges as a deeply Christian one, depending on the exegesis of Scripture read in the light of Greek philosophy. Positive ancient sources present him as a deacon or even a presbyter, as an author of refutations of Marcionism and Gnosticism, and as a confessor of the faith during persecution.