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Interpolations in the Syriac Translation of Nestorius’ Liber Heraclidis

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The paper discusses the Syriac translation of Nestorius’ Liber Heraclidis, specifically examining the concerns regarding potential interpolations in the text. It highlights the historical significance of the translation's discovery, the subsequent scholarly debate surrounding the integrity of the text, particularly the work of Luise Abramowski, and the counterarguments presented by scholars like Luigi Scipioni and Roberta Chestnut. The analysis aims to clarify the validity of claims regarding interpolations that affect the historical narrative presented in the Liber.

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  1. The text explores Nestorius' Liber Heraclidis, revealing significant text integrity concerns.
  2. Luise Abramowski proposed multiple interpolations in the Liber, particularly affecting its historical authenticity.
  3. Arguments against interpolations focus on chronology and Nestorius' situational knowledge post-Chalcedon.
  4. The final prophecy refers explicitly to the Vandal sack of Rome in 455, indicating posthumous authorship.
  5. Historical references suggest the interpolated sections may derive from Nestorius' lost Tragoedia.

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  33. Stuart Rowley thomson, Oxford, UK Apostolic Authority: Reading and Writing Legitimacy in Clement of Alexandria ........................................................................................... Davide dainese, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose 'Giovanni XXIII', Bologna, Italy Clement of Alexandria's Refusal of Valentinian âpórroia ..............
  34. Dan batoviCi, St Andrews, UK Hermas in Clement of Alexandria ...................................................... Piotr ashwin-sieJkowski, Chichester, UK Clement of Alexandria on the Creation of Eve: Exegesis in the Ser- vice of a Pedagogical Project ..............................................................
  35. Pamela mullins reaves, Durham, NC, USA Multiple Martyrdoms and Christian Identity in Clement of Alexan- dria's Stromateis ..................................................................................
  36. Michael J. thate, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT, USA Identity Construction as Resistance: Figuring Hegemony, Biopolitics, and Martyrdom as an Approach to Clement of Alexandria ...............
  37. Veronika Cernusková, Olomouc, Czech Republic The Concept of eûpáqeia in Clement of Alexandria ........................
  38. Kamala Parel-nuttall, Calgary, Canada Clement of Alexandria's Ideal Christian Wife ................................... THE FOURTH-CENTURY DEBATES
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  40. Jon M. robertson, Portland, Oregon, USA 'The Beloved of God': The Christological Backdrop for the Political Theory of Eusebius of Caesarea in Laus Constantini ........................
  41. Cordula bandt, Berlin, Germany Some Remarks on the Tone of Eusebius' Commentary on Psalms ...
  42. Clayton Coombs, Melbourne, Australia Literary Device or Legitimate Diversity: Assessing Eusebius' Use of the Optative Mood in Quaestiones ad Marinum ................................
  43. David J. devore, Berkeley, California, USA Eusebius' Un-Josephan History: Two Portraits of Philo of Alexandria and the Sources of Ecclesiastical Historiography ...............................
  44. Gregory Allen robbins, Denver, USA 'Number Determinate is Kept Concealed' (Dante, Paradiso XXIX 135): Eusebius and the Transformation of the List (Hist. eccl. III 25) .......
  45. James Corke-webster, Manchester, UK A Literary Historian: Eusebius of Caesarea and the Martyrs of Lyons and Palestine .............................................................................
  46. Samuel Fernández, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile ¿Crisis arriana o crisis monarquiana en el siglo IV? Las críticas de Marcelo de Ancira a Asterio de Capadocia ........................................
  47. Laurence vianès, Université de Grenoble / HiSoMA «Sources Chrétien- nes», France L'interprétation des prophètes par Apollinaire de Laodicée a-t-elle influencé Théodore de Mopsueste? .................................................... Hélène grelier-deneux, Paris, France La réception d'Apolinaire dans les controverses christologiques du V e siècle à partir de deux témoins, Cyrille d'Alexandrie et Théodoret de Cyr ..................................................................................................
  48. Sophie H. Cartwright, Edinburgh, UK So-called Platonism, the Soul, and the Humanity of Christ in Eus- tathius of Antioch's Contra Ariomanitas et de anima .......................
  49. Donna R. hawk-reinhard, St Louis, USA Cyril of Jerusalem's Sacramental Theosis ..........................................
  50. Georgij zakharov, Moscou, Russie Théologie de l'image chez Germinius de Sirmium ............................
  51. Michael Stuart williams, Maynooth, Ireland Auxentius of Milan: From Orthodoxy to Heresy ...............................
  52. Jarred A. merCer, Oxford, UK The Life in the Word and the Light of Humanity: The Exegetical Foundation of Hilary of Poitiers' Doctrine of Divine Infinity ..........
  53. Janet sidawaY, Edinburgh, UK Hilary of Poitiers and Phoebadius of Agen: Who Influenced Whom? Dominique gonnet, S.J., Lyon, France The Use of the Bible within Athanasius of Alexandria's Letters to Serapion ...............................................................................................
  54. William G. rusCh, New York, USA Corresponding with Emperor Jovian: The Strategy and Theology of Apollinaris of Laodicea and Athanasius of Alexandria .....................
  55. Rocco sChembra, Catania, Italia Il percorso editoriale del De non parcendo in deum delinquentibus di Lucifero di Cagliari ........................................................................ Caroline maCé, Leuven, Belgium, and Ilse de vos, Oxford, UK Pseudo-Athanasius, Quaestio ad Antiochum 136 and the Theosophia Volume 15
  56. STUDIA PATRISTICA LXVII CAPPADOCIAN WRITERS Giulio masPero, Rome, Italy The Spirit Manifested by the Son in Cappadocian Thought .............
  57. Darren sariskY, Cambridge, UK Who Can Listen to Sermons on Genesis? Theological Exegesis and Theological Anthropology in Basil of Caesarea's Hexaemeron Hom- ilies ......................................................................................................
  58. Ian C. Jones, New York, USA Humans and Animals: St Basil of Caesarea's Ascetic Evocation of Paradise................................................................................................ Benoît gain, Grenoble, France Voyageur en Exil: Un aspect central de la condition humaine selon Basile de Césarée ................................................................................
  59. Anne Gordon keidel, Boston, USA Nautical Imagery in the Writings of Basil of Caesarea .....................
  60. Martin maYerhoFer, Rom, Italien Die basilianische Anthropologie als Verständnisschlüssel zu Ad ado- lescentes ...............................................................................................
  61. Anna M. silvas, Armidale NSW, Australia Basil and Gregory of Nyssa on the Ascetic Life: Introductory Com- parisons ................................................................................................ Antony meredith, S.J., London, UK Universal Salvation and Human Response in Gregory of Nyssa .......
  62. Robin orton, London, UK 'Physical' Soteriology in Gregory of Nyssa: A Response to Reinhard M. Hübner ............................................................................................
  63. Marcello la matina, Macerata, Italy Seeing God through Language. Quotation and Deixis in Gregory of Nyssa's Against Eunomius, Book III ..................................................
  64. Hui xia, Leuven, Belgium The Light Imagery in Gregory of Nyssa's Contra Eunomium III 6 ..
  65. Francisco bastitta harriet, Buenos Aires, Argentina Does God 'Follow' Human Decision? An Interpretation of a Passage from Gregory of Nyssa's De vita Moysis (II 86) ................................
  66. Miguel brugarolas, Pamplona, Spain Anointing and Kingdom: Some Aspects of Gregory of Nyssa's Pneu- matology ..............................................................................................
  67. Matthew R. lootens, New York City, USA A Preface to Gregory of Nyssa's Contra Eunomium? Gregory's Epis- tula 29 ..................................................................................................
  68. Nathan D. howard, Martin, Tennessee, USA Gregory of Nyssa's Vita Macrinae in the Fourth-Century Trinitarian Debate ..................................................................................................
  69. Ann ConwaY-Jones, Manchester, UK Gregory of Nyssa's Tabernacle Imagery: Mysticism, Theology and Politics ................................................................................................. Elena ene d-vasilesCu, Oxford, UK How Would Gregory of Nyssa Understand Evolutionism? ................
  70. Daniel G. oPPerwall, Hamilton, Canada Sinai and Corporate Epistemology in the Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus ............................................................................................
  71. Finn damgaard, Copenhagen, Denmark The Figure of Moses in Gregory of Nazianzus' Autobiographical Remarks in his Orations and Poems ...................................................
  72. Gregory K. hillis, Louisville, Kentucky, USA Pneumatology and Soteriology according to Gregory of Nazianzus and Cyril of Alexandria ......................................................................
  73. Zurab Jashi, Leipzig, Germany Human Freedom and Divine Providence according to Gregory of Nazianzus ............................................................................................
  74. Matthew briel, Bronx, New York, USA Gregory the Theologian, Logos and Literature .................................. THE SECOND HALF OF THE FOURTH CENTURY John voelker, Viking, Minnesota, USA Marius Victorinus' Remembrance of the Nicene Council .................
  75. Kellen PlaxCo, Milwaukee, USA Didymus the Blind and the Metaphysics of Participation ..................
  76. Rubén Peretó rivas, Mendoza, Argentina La acedia y Evagrio Póntico. Entre ángeles y demonios ...................
  77. Young Richard kim, Grand Rapids, USA The Pastoral Care of Epiphanius of Cyprus .......................................
  78. Peter Anthony mena, Madison, NJ, USA Insatiable Appetites: Epiphanius of Salamis and the Making of the Heretical Villain .................................................................................. Constantine bozinis, Thessaloniki, Greece De imperio et potestate. A Dialogue with John Chrysostom ............
  79. Johan leemans, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Leuven, Belgium John Chrysostom's First Homily on Pentecost (CPG 4343): Liturgy and Theology .......................................................................................
  80. Natalia smelova, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia St John Chrysostom's Exegesis on the Prophet Isaiah: The Oriental Translations and their Manuscripts ..................................................... Goran sekulovski, Paris, France Jean Chrysostome sur la communion de Judas ..................................
  81. Jeff W. Childers, Abilene, Texas, USA Chrysostom in Syriac Dress................................................................
  82. Cara J. asPesi, Notre Dame, USA Literacy and Book Ownership in the Congregations of John Chrysos- tom .......................................................................................................
  83. Jonathan stanFill, New York, USA John Chrysostom's Gothic Parish and the Politics of Space ..............
  84. Peter moore, Sydney, Australia Chrysostom's Concept of gnÉmj: How 'Chosen Life's Orientation' Undergirds Chrysostom's Strategy in Preaching ................................
  85. Chris L. de wet, Pretoria, South Africa John Chrysostom's Advice to Slaveholders ........................................
  86. Paola Francesca moretti, Milano, Italy Not only ianua diaboli. Jerome, the Bible and the Construction of a Female Gender Model ......................................................................... Vít husek, Olomouc, Czech Republic 'Perfection Appropriate to the Fragile Human Condition': Jerome and Pelagius on the Perfection of Christian Life ...............................
  87. Pak-Wah lai, Singapore The Imago Dei and Salvation among the Antiochenes: A Comparison of John Chrysostom with Theodore of Mopsuestia ............................
  88. George kalantzis, Wheaton, Illinois, USA Creatio ex Terrae: Immortality and the Fall in Theodore, Chrysos- tom, and Theodoret ............................................................................. Volume 16
  89. STUDIA PATRISTICA LXVIII FROM THE FIFTH CENTURY ONWARDS (GREEK WRITERS)
  90. Anna lankina, Gainesville, Florida, USA Reclaiming the Memory of the Christian Past: Philostorgius' Mis- sionary Heroes ..................................................................................... Vasilije vraniC, Marquette University, USA The Logos as theios sporos: The Christology of the Expositio rectae fidei of Theodoret of Cyrrhus ............................................................. Andreas westergren, Lund, Sweden A Relic In Spe: Theodoret's Depiction of a Philosopher Saint ..........
  91. George A. bevan, Kingston, Canada Interpolations in the Syriac Translation of Nestorius' Liber Heraclidis Ken ParrY, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia 'Rejoice for Me, O Desert': Fresh Light on the Remains of Nestorius in Egypt ...............................................................................................
  92. Josef rist, Bochum, Germany Kirchenpolitik und/oder Bestechung: Die Geschenke des Kyrill von Alexandrien an den kaiserlichen Hof .................................................
  93. Hans van loon, Culemborg, The Netherlands The Pelagian Debate and Cyril of Alexandria's Theology ................
  94. Hannah milner, Cambridge, UK Cyril of Alexandria's Treatment of Sources in his Commentary on the Twelve Prophets .............................................................................
  95. Matthew R. CrawFord, Durham, UK Assessing the Authenticity of the Greek Fragments on Psalm 22 (LXX) attributed to Cyril of Alexandria ............................................
  96. Dimitrios zaganas, Paris, France Against Origen and/or Origenists? Cyril of Alexandria's Rejection of John the Baptist's Angelic Nature in his Commentary on John 1:6
  97. Richard W. bishoP, Leuven, Belgium Cyril of Alexandria's Sermon on the Ascension (CPG 5281) ............
  98. Daniel keating, Detroit, MI, USA Supersessionism in Cyril of Alexandria .............................................
  99. Thomas arentzen, Lund, Sweden 'Your virginity shines' -The Attraction of the Virgin in the Annun- ciation Hymn by Romanos the Melodist ............................................
  100. Thomas Cattoi, Berkeley, USA An Evagrian üpóstasiv? Leontios of Byzantium and the 'Com- posite Subjectivity' of the Person of Christ ........................................
  101. Leszek misiarCzYk, Warsaw, Poland The Relationship between nous, pneuma and logistikon in Evagrius Ponticus' Anthropology .......................................................................
  102. J. Gregory given, Cambridge, USA Anchoring the Areopagite: An Intertextual Approach to Pseudo- Dionysius .............................................................................................
  103. Ladislav Chvátal, Olomouc, Czech Republic The Concept of 'Grace' in Dionysius the Areopagite ........................
  104. Graciela L. ritaCCo, San Miguel, Argentina El Bien, el Sol y el Rayo de Luz según Dionisio del Areópago ........
  105. Zachary M. guiliano, Cambridge, UK The Cross in (Pseudo-)Dionysius: Pinnacle and Pit of Revelation ....
  106. David newheiser, Chicago, USA Eschatology and the Areopagite: Interpreting the Dionysian Hierar- chies in Terms of Time .......................................................................
  107. Ashley PurPura, New York City, USA 'Pseudo' Dionysius the Areopagite's Ecclesiastical Hierarchy: Keep- ing the Divine Order and Participating in Divinity ...........................
  108. Filip ivanoviC, Trondheim, Norway Dionysius the Areopagite on Justice ...................................................
  109. Brenda llewellYn ihssen, Tacoma, USA Money in the Meadow: Conversion and Coin in John Moschos' Pra- tum spirituale ......................................................................................
  110. Bogdan G. buCur, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA Exegesis and Intertextuality in Anastasius the Sinaite's Homily On the Transfiguration ..............................................................................
  111. Christopher Johnson, Tuscaloosa, USA Between Madness and Holiness: Symeon of Emesa and the 'Peda- gogics of Liminality' ...........................................................................
  112. Archbishop Rowan williams, London, UK Nature, Passion and Desire: Maximus' Ontology of Excess .............
  113. Manuel mira iborra, Rome, Italy Friendship in Maximus the Confessor ................................................ Marius Portaru, Rome, Italy Gradual Participation according to St Maximus the Confessor .........
  114. Michael bakker, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Willing in St Maximos' Mystagogical Habitat: Bringing Habits in Line with One's logos.......................................................................... Andreas andreoPoulos, Winchester, UK 'All in All' in the Byzantine Anaphora and the Eschatological Mys- tagogy of Maximos the Confessor ......................................................
  115. Cyril K. CrawFord, OSB, Leuven, Belgium ( †) 'Receptive Potency' (dektike dynamis) in Ambigua ad Iohannem 20 of St Maximus the Confessor.............................................................. Johannes börJesson, Cambridge, UK Maximus the Confessor's Knowledge of Augustine: An Exploration of Evidence Derived from the Acta of the Lateran Council of 649 ..
  116. Joseph steineger, Chicago, USA John of Damascus on the Simplicity of God ......................................
  117. Scott ables, Oxford, UK Did John of Damascus Modify His Sources in the Expositio fidei? ...
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  119. Vladimir A. baranov, Novosibirsk, Russia Amphilochia 231 of Patriarch Photius as a Possible Source on the Christology of the Byzantine Iconoclasts ........................................... Theodoros alexoPoulos, Athens, Greece The Byzantine Filioque-Supporters in the 13 th Century John Bekkos and Konstantin Melitiniotes and their Relation with Augustine and Thomas Aquinas .................................................................................. Nicholas bamFord, St Albans, UK Using Gregory Palamas' Energetic Theology to Address John Ziziou- las' Existentialism ...............................................................................
  120. John bekos, Nicosia, Cyprus Nicholas Cabasilas' Political Theology in an Epoch of Economic Crisis: A Reading of a 14 th -Century Political Discourse ................... Volume 17
  121. STUDIA PATRISTICA LXIX LATIN WRITERS Dennis Paul quinn, Pomona, California, USA In the Names of God and His Christ: Evil Daemons, Exorcism, and Conversion in Firmicus Maternus .......................................................
  122. Stanley P. rosenberg, Oxford, UK Nature and the Natural World in Ambrose's Hexaemeron ................
  123. Brian dunkle, S.J., South Bend, USA Mystagogy and Creed in Ambrose's Iam Surgit Hora Tertia ............
  124. Finbarr G. ClanCY, S.J., Dublin, Ireland The Eucharist in St Ambrose's Commentaries on the Psalms ...........
  125. Jan den boeFt, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Qui cantat, vacuus est: Ambrose on singing ..................................... Crystal lubinskY, University of Edinburgh, UK Re-reading Masculinity in Christian Greco-Roman Culture through Ambrose and the Female Transvestite Monk, Matrona of Perge .......
  126. Maria E. doerFler, Durham, USA Keeping it in the Family: The law and the Law in Ambrose of Milan's Letters .................................................................................................. Camille gerzaguet, Lyon, France Le De fuga saeculi d'Ambroise de Milan et sa datation. Notes de philologie et d'histoire .........................................................................
  127. Vincenzo messana, Palermo, Italia Fra Sicilia e Burdigala nel IV secolo: gli intellettuali Citario e Vit- torio (Ausonius, Prof. 13 e 22) ............................................................
  128. Edmon L. gallagher, Florence, Alabama, USA Jerome's Prologus Galeatus and the OT Canon of North Africa ......
  129. Christine mCCann, Northfield, VT, USA Incentives to Virtue: Jerome's Use of Biblical Models ......................
  130. Christa graY, Oxford, UK The Monk and the Ridiculous: Comedy in Jerome's Vita Malchi ..... Zachary Yuzwa, Cornell University, USA To Live by the Example of Angels: Dialogue, Imitation and Identity in Sulpicius Severus' Gallus ............................................................... Robert mCeaChnie, Gainesville, USA Envisioning the Utopian Community in the Sermons of Chromatius of Aquileia ...........................................................................................
  131. Hernán M. giudiCe, Buenos Aires, Argentina El Papel del Apóstol Pablo en la Propuesta Priscilianista .................
  132. Bernard green, Oxford, UK Leo the Great on Baptism: Letter 16 ..................................................
  133. Fabian sieber, Leuven, Belgium Christologische Namen und Titel in der Paraphrase des Johannes- Evangeliums des Nonnos von Panopolis ............................................
  134. Junghoo kwon, Toronto, Canada The Latin Pseudo-Athanasian De trinitate Attributed to Eusebius of Vercelli and its Place of Composition: Spain or Northern Italy? ......
  135. Salvatore Costanza, Agrigento, Italia Cartagine in Salviano di Marsiglia: alcune puntualizzazioni ............
  136. Giulia marConi, Perugia, Italy Commendatio in Ostrogothic Italy: Studies on the Letters of Enno- dius of Pavia ........................................................................................ Lucy grig, Edinburgh, UK Approaching Popular Culture in Late Antiquity: Singing in the Ser- mons of Caesarius of Arles .................................................................
  137. Thomas S. Ferguson, Riverdale, New York, USA Grace and Kingship in De aetatibus mundi et hominis of Planciades Fulgentius ............................................................................................ Jérémy delmulle, Paris, France Establishing an Authentic List of Prosper's Works ............................
  138. Albertus G.A. horsting, Notre Dame, USA Reading Augustine with Pleasure: The Original Form of Prosper of Aquitaine's Book of Epigrams ............................................................
  139. Michele Cutino, Palermo, Italy Prosper and the Pagans .......................................................................
  140. Norman W. James, St Albans, UK Prosper of Aquitaine Revisited: Gallic Friend of Leo I or Resident Papal Adviser?.....................................................................................
  141. Alexander Y. hwang, Louisville, USA Prosper of Aquitaine and the Fall of Rome ........................................
  142. Brian J. matz, Helena, USA Legacy of Prosper of Aquitaine in the Ninth-Century Predestination Debate ..................................................................................................
  143. Raúl villegas marín, Paris, France, and Barcelona, Spain Original Sin in the Provençal Ascetic Theology: John Cassian ........ Pere maYmó i CaPdevila, Barcelona, Spain A Bishop Faces War: Gregory the Great's Attitude towards Ariulf's Campaign on Rome (591-592) ............................................................. Hector sCerri, Msida, Malta Life as a Journey in the Letters of Gregory the Great .......................
  144. Theresia hainthaler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Canon 13 of the Second Council of Seville (619) under Isidore of Seville. A Latin Anti-Monophysite Treatise ....................................... NACHLEBEN
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  146. Lesley-Anne dYer, Notre Dame, USA The Twelfth-Century Influence of Hilary of Poitiers on Richard of St Victor's De trinitate ........................................................................
  147. John T. slotemaker, Boston, USA Reading Augustine in the Fourteenth Century: Gregory of Rimini and Pierre d'Ailly on the Imago Trinitatis ..........................................
  148. Jeffrey C. witt, Boston, USA Interpreting Augustine: On the Nature of 'Theological Knowledge' in the Fourteenth Century ................................................................... Joost van rossum, Paris, France Creation-Theology in Gregory Palamas and Theophanes of Nicaea, Compatible or Incompatible? ..............................................................
  149. Yilun Cai, Leuven, Belgium The Appeal to Augustine in Domingo Bañez' Theology of Effica- cious Grace ..........................................................................................
  150. Elizabeth A. Clark, Durham, USA Romanizing Protestantism in Nineteenth-Century America: John Williamson Nevin, the Fathers, and the 'Mercersburg Theology' .....
  151. Pier Franco beatriCe, University of Padua, Italy Reading Elizabeth A. Clark, Founding the Fathers ...........................
  152. Kenneth noakes, Wimborne, Dorset, UK 'Fellow Citizens with you and your Great Benefactors': Newman and the Fathers in the Parochial Sermons .................................................
  153. Manuela E. gheorghe, Olomouc, Czech Republic The Reception of Hesychia in Romanian Literature ..........................
  154. Jason radCliFF, Edinburgh, UK Thomas F. Torrance's Conception of the Consensus patrum on the Doctrine of Pneumatology .................................................................. Andrew lenox-ConYngham, Birmingham, UK In Praise of St Jerome and Against the Anglican Cult of 'Niceness' Therese Fuhrer, Berlin, Germany The 'Milan narrative' in Augustine's Confessions: Intellectual and Material Spaces in Late Antique Milan .............................................
  155. Kenneth M. wilson, Oxford, UK Sin as Contagious in the Writings of Cyprian and Augustine ...........
  156. Marius A. van willigen, Tilburg, The Netherlands Ambrose's De paradiso: An Inspiring Source for Augustine of Hippo Ariane magnY, Kamloops, Canada How Important were Porphyry's Anti-Christian Ideas to Augustine? Jonathan D. teubner, Cambridge, UK Augustine's De magistro: Scriptural Arguments and the Genre of Philosophy ...........................................................................................
  157. Marie-Anne vannier, Université de Lorraine-MSH Lorraine, France La mystagogie chez S. Augustin .........................................................
  158. Joseph T. lienhard, S.J., Bronx, New York, USA Locutio and sensus in Augustine's Writings on the Heptateuch ........
  159. Laela zwollo, Centre for Patristic Research, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands St Augustine on the Soul's Divine Experience: Visio intellectualis and Imago dei from Book XII of De genesi ad litteram libri XII .....
  160. Enrique A. eguiarte, Madrid, Spain The Exegetical Function of Old Testament Names in Augustine's Commentary on the Psalms ................................................................ Mickaël ribreau, Paris, France À la frontière de plusieurs controverses doctrinales: L'Enarratio au Psaume 118 d'Augustin .......................................................................
  161. Wendy elgersma helleman, Plateau State, Nigeria Augustine and Philo of Alexandria's 'Sarah' as a Wisdom Figure (De Civitate Dei XV 2f.; XVI 25-32) ........................................................ Paul van geest, Tilburg and Amsterdam, The Netherlands St Augustine on God's Incomprehensibility, Incarnation and the Authority of St John ............................................................................ Piotr M. PaCiorek, Miami, USA The Metaphor of 'the Letter from God' as Applied to Holy Scripture by Saint Augustine ..............................................................................
  162. John Peter kenneY, Colchester, Vermont, USA Apophasis and Interiority in Augustine's Early Writings ..................
  163. Karl F. morrison, Princeton, NJ, USA Augustine's Project of Self-Knowing and the Paradoxes of Art: An Experiment in Biblical Hermeneutics .................................................
  164. Tarmo toom, Washington, D.C., USA Was Augustine an Intentionalist? Authorial Intention in Augustine's Hermeneutics .......................................................................................
  165. Francine Cardman, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA Discerning the Heart: Intention as Ethical Norm in Augustine's Homilies on 1 John ............................................................................. Samuel kimbriel, Cambridge, UK Illumination and the Practice of Inquiry in Augustine ......................
  166. Susan Blackburn griFFith, Oxford, UK Unwrapping the Word: Metaphor in the Augustinian Imagination ...
  167. Paula J. rose, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 'Videbit me nocte proxima, sed in somnis': Augustine's Rhetorical Use of Dream Narratives.....................................................................
  168. Jared ortiz, Washington, D.C., USA The Deep Grammar of Augustine's Conversion ................................
  169. Emmanuel bermon, University of Bordeaux, France Grammar and Metaphysics: About the Forms essendi, essendo, essendum, and essens in Augustine's Ars grammatica breuiata (IV, 31
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  171. Gerald P. boersma, Durham, UK Enjoying the Trinity in De uera religione ..........................................
  172. Emily Cain, New York, NY, USA Knowledge Seeking Wisdom: A Pedagogical Pattern for Augustine's De trinitate ..........................................................................................
  173. Michael L. Carreker, Macon, Georgia, USA The Integrity of Christ's Scientia and Sapientia in the Argument of the De trinitate of Augustine ..............................................................
  174. Dongsun Cho, Fort Worth, Texas, USA An Apology for Augustine's Filioque as a Hermeneutical Referent to the Immanent Trinity ......................................................................
  175. Ronnie J. rombs, Dallas, USA The Grace of Creation and Perfection as Key to Augustine's Confes- sions .....................................................................................................
  176. Matthias smalbrugge, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Image as a Hermeneutic Model in Confessions X ............................. Naoki kamimura, Tokyo, Japan The Consultation of Sacred Books and the Mediator: The Sortes in Augustine .............................................................................................
  177. Eva-Maria kuhn, Munich, Germany Listening to the Bishop: A Note on the Construction of Judicial Authority in Confessions vi 3-5 .........................................................
  178. Jangho Jo, Waco, USA Augustine's Three-Day Lecture in Carthage ......................................
  179. Alicia eelen, Leuven, Belgium 1Tim. 1:15: Humanus sermo or Fidelis sermo? Augustine's Sermo 174 and its Christology ........................................................................
  180. Han-luen kantzer komline, South Bend, IN, USA 'Ut in illo uiueremus': Augustine on the Two Wills of Christ ..........
  181. George C. berthold, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA Dyothelite Language in Augustine's Christology ...............................
  182. Chris thomas, Central University College, Accra, Ghana Donatism and the Contextualisation of Christianity: A Cautionary Tale ......................................................................................................
  183. Jane E. merdinger, Incline Village, Nevada, USA Before Augustine's Encounter with Emeritus: Early Mauretanian Donatism ..............................................................................................
  184. James K. lee, Southern Methodist University, TX, USA The Church as Mystery in the Theology of St Augustine .................
  185. Charles D. robertson, Houston, USA Augustinian Ecclesiology and Predestination: An Intractable Prob- lem? .....................................................................................................
  186. Brian gronewoller, Atlanta, USA Felicianus, Maximianism, and Augustine's Anti-Donatist Polemic ...
  187. Marianne dJuth, Canisius College, Buffalo, New York, USA Augustine on the Saints and the Community of the Living and the Dead ..................................................................................................... Bart van egmond, Kampen, The Netherlands Perseverance until the End in Augustine's Anti-Donatist Polemic .... Carles buenaCasa Pérez, Barcelona, Spain The Letters Ad Donatistas of Augustine and their Relevance in the Anti-Donatist Controversy .................................................................. Ron haFlidson, Edinburgh, UK Imitation and the Mediation of Christ in Augustine's City of God ...
  188. Julia hudson, Oxford, UK Leaves, Mice and Barbarians: The Providential Meaning of Incidents in the De ordine and De ciuitate Dei ................................................. Shari boodts, Leuven, Belgium A Critical Assessment of Wolfenbüttel Herz.-Aug.-Bibl. Cod. Guelf. 237 (Helmst. 204) and its Value for the Edition of St Augustine's Sermones ad populum .........................................................................
  189. Lenka karFíková, Prague, Czech Repubic Augustine to Nebridius on the Ideas of Individuals (ep. 14,4) ...........
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The Liber Heraclidis, found in 1889, revealed Nestorius' apologia but raised text integrity concerns later expressed by scholars like Luise Abramowski in 1963.

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Arnbramowski identified five interpolations impacting the chronology and authenticity of events involving Eutyches and the Council of Chalcedon, suggesting alterations after 451.

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Nestor's awareness of Flavian's death and the use of 'in two natures' implies he engaged with Chalcedon discussions prior to its conclusion.

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Translation issues, such as replacing proper names with pronouns, have obscured contextual meaning, influencing the understanding of historical realities in the Liber.

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Certain passages attributed to Nestorius after 451, such as prophecies about barbarian attacks, suggest later interpolation possibly reflecting theological tensions of the period.

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