Abstract While Judith was used with Esther and other books female protagonists to promote the reign of Queen Shelamzion Alexandra activities Pharisees, as Tal Ilan has argued, role in historical examples 1 Clement presents needing seek permission elders her besieged city order go enemy camp behead Holofernes. This article argues that such an interpretive move preserves authority Hasmonean Phari...
Abstract In middle to late Byzantium, one finds dogmatic‐style sceptical arguments employed against human reason in relation divine revelation, where revelation becomes the sole criterion of certain truth contrast reason. This argumentative strategy originates early Christian authors, especially Clement Alexandria (c. 150–215 CE) and Gregory Nazianzen 329–390 CE), who maintain that is only doma...
