SAPERE XXVIII: Against false gods and false education: Tatian, Speech to the Greek

Against False Gods and False Education: Tatian, Speech to the Greeks, introduced, translated and with interpretative essays by Heinz-Günther Nesselrath / Peter Gemeinhardt / Marie-Luise Lakmann / Ferdinand R. Prostmeier / Adolf Martin Ritter / Holger Strutwolf / Andrei Timotin, Tübingen 2016.

Tatian's "Speech to the Greeks", written after the middle of the 2nd century AD, is an eloquent and vehement attack by an educated Christian against the entire Hellenic world of culture and gods; it thus already forms a precursor of the revolutionary intellectual confrontations between religious-pagan traditions and Christianity in the 4th century AD. The volume offers an introduction to the author and his work as well as to his writing, which is the focus here, then the original Greek text (thoroughly revised compared to earlier editions) and a new German translation, a thorough commentary on the numerous details of content offered by the writing, and - in the second part - a series of essays that place the writing in its theological, religious and intellectual-historical context and also shed light on its later reception.

Gemeinhardt, Peter; Lakmann, Marie-Luise; Nesselrath, Heinz-Günther; Prostmeier, Ferdinand R.; Ritter, Adolf Martin; Strutwolf, Holger; Timotin, Andrei
Composite volume; German, Ancient Greek
Published: 2016
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck Verlag: Tübingen
ISBN: 978-3-16-152821-7