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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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Greek translation of Jerome's Life of *Paul of Thebes (the First Anchorite, S00089), of uncertain date. Skeleton entry

Evidence ID

E07143

Type of Evidence

Literary - Hagiographical - Lives

Major author/Major anonymous work

Jerome of Stridon

Jerome of Stridon, Life of Paul the Hermit, Greek version (CPG 3636, BHG 1466-1467b)

On the original text, see E00750.

Non Liturgical Activity

Composing and translating saint-related texts
Transmission, copying and reading saint-related texts

Source

For the manuscript tradition, see:
https://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/oeuvre/13413/


Discussion

The text survives in four versions, the first of which (version a, BHG 1466) is a nearly literal translation of Jerome's text. There is no evidence as to who may have produced this translation.


Bibliography

Text:
Bidez, J., Deux versions grecques inédites de la vie de Paul de Thèbes (Paris, 1900), with French translation.

Tubbs Correy, K. "The Greek Versions of Jerome's Vita Sancti Pauli,"
in W.A. Oldfather (ed.), Studies in the Text Tradition of St. Jerome’s Vitae Patrum (Urbana, 1943), 143-250.


Record Created By

Efthymios Rizos

Date of Entry

14/12/2018

Related Saint Records
IDNameName in SourceIdentity
S00089Paul, the First AnchoriteΠαῦλοςCertain


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