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Athenagoras or Pseudo-Athenagoras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2011

Robert M. Grant
Robert M. Grant
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In 1936 Henry Lucks could write of Athenagoras' treatise On the Resurrection of the Dead that “it is rather singular that there is no questioning of the authorship of this work, and no hesitancy evident in attributing it to Athenagoras.” On the other hand, in 1950 P. Keseling made the following statement after speaking of Athenagoras' Legatio:

Demselben Verfasser weist eine von der Hand des Erzbischof Arethas selbst herrühende (so Stählin bei Harnack, Lit. 2 1, 317, 4) Eintragung in dem massgebenden Codex Paris, graecus 451 v J. 914 einen Λόγος περὶ ἀναστάεως τῶν νεκρῶν (Oratio de resurrectione mortuorum), also eine Schrift über die Auferstehung der Toten zu, die jedoch, sonst nirgends bezeugt und aus inneren Gründen nicht unverdächtig, hier ausser Betracht geblieben ist.

The purpose of this paper is to develop the reasons for believing that Athenagoras could not have written the treatise De resurrectione.

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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , April 1954 , pp. 121 - 129
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1954

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13 Cf. Albinus, Eisagoge 6, p. 150 Hermann (cited by Schwartz).

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32 Contra Celsum 3, 56; 6, 61.

33 Strom. 6, 133–48. The author's rejection of pleasure as the goal of life may well be due to Origen's having accused the simpliciores of having this goal; cf. De princ. 2, 11, 2.

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