{"id":49584,"date":"2024-03-27T18:50:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T18:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=49584"},"modified":"2024-03-27T18:50:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T18:50:47","slug":"an-english-translation-of-asterius-of-cappadocia-homily-16-on-the-easter-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2024\/03\/27\/an-english-translation-of-asterius-of-cappadocia-homily-16-on-the-easter-vigil\/","title":{"rendered":"An English translation of Asterius of Cappadocia, Homily 16 (On the Easter Vigil)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathanporter94\/status\/1773041566594003420?s=20\">twitter post<\/a> alerts me to the release of the first English translation of Homily 16 by Asterius of Cappadocia (CPG 2815, no.16).\u00a0 It is one of a collection of 31 homilies which is listed in the CPG, under the title <em>Commentarii in Psalmos<\/em>, which seems odd.\u00a0 A translation of an extract from homily 11 is <a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2015\/07\/11\/asterius-on-matthew-2725\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The translation is by Nathan Porter, who has kindly made it available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/116769011\/Asterius_of_Cappadocia_Homily_16_on_Baptism_at_the_Easter_Vigil\">on Academia.edu here<\/a>.\u00a0 He suggests that it was delivered in the 330s.\u00a0 \u00a0His tweet included this lovely image:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/asterius_snippet.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49585\" src=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/asterius_snippet.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Note that this is NOT the later author Asterius of Amasea, whose works begin in the CPG with 3260.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A twitter post alerts me to the release of the first English translation of Homily 16 by Asterius of Cappadocia (CPG 2815, no.16).\u00a0 It is one of a collection of 31 homilies which is listed in the CPG, under the title Commentarii in Psalmos, which seems odd.\u00a0 A translation of an extract from homily 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}