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The Last Temptation of Satan: Divine Deception in Greek Patristic Interpretations of the Passion Narrative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2004

Nicholas P. Constas
Affiliation:
Harvard Divinity School

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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

This paper began as a seminar project at Hebrew University, Jerusalem (June–August 1995), with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and I am thankful to Gary Anderson, Michael Stone, and David Satran for their comments and criticisms. Early versions were presented at the annual meeting of the North American Patristics Society (1997), and at Harvard Divinity School in the spring of 1998, at which time Wendy Larson read through the text and greatly improved it. A subsequent version was presented at “Eros and the Religious Imagination,” the Sixth Annual Conference in Comparative Religion at New York University (April 2000). Translations are my own, except where noted. GNO=Gregorii Nysseni opera (ed. Werner Jaeger et al., 1921–).