| Philostorgius: Church History Contributor(s): Amidon, Philip R. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 9004146717 ISBN-13: 9789004146716 Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2007 Annotation: Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org) |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | History |
| Dewey: 270.2 |
| Series: Sbl - Writings from the Greco-Roman World |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.82" W x 9.47" (1.58 lbs) 284 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Philostorgius (born 368 C.E.) was a member of the Eunomian sect of Christianity, a nonconformist faction deeply opposed to the form of Christianity adopted by the Roman government as the official religion of its empire. He wrote his twelve-book Church History, the critical edition of the surviving remnants of which is presented here in English translation, at the beginning of the fifth century as a revisionist history of the church and the empire in the fourth and early-fifth centuries. Sometimes contradicting and often supplementing what is found in other histories of the period, Christian or otherwise, it offers a rare dissenting picture of the Christian world of the time. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org) |