{"id":7774,"date":"2011-11-28T23:20:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T23:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=7774"},"modified":"2011-11-28T23:20:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T23:20:20","slug":"chrysostom-and-the-jews-uploaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2011\/11\/28\/chrysostom-and-the-jews-uploaded\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrysostom and the Jews uploaded"},"content":{"rendered":"

An email from a correspondent revealed to me\u00a0that the anonymous translation of John Chrysostom’s Eight homilies against the Jews<\/em> was no longer accessible at the Fordham University site.\u00a0 This is a nuisance.\u00a0 What to do?<\/p>\n

Back in 1998 Paul Halsall created the Medieval Sourcebook site there.\u00a0 He included this translation which he found online on anti-Jewish sites.\u00a0 The origins of the translation are unknown; it is not the\u00a0standard translation found in the Fathers of the Church<\/em> series.\u00a0But\u00a0Dr Halsall\u00a0has long since moved on to other things, and the site\u00a0seems rather\u00a0neglected.<\/p>\n

I have notified\u00a0Fordham that the page is missing. But since\u00a0the site\u00a0is no longer actively maintained, even if\u00a0the page\u00a0should reappear, there is a considerable possibility that it will vanish again.\u00a0 If it remains missing, people looking for the text will be forced to find it in strange places.<\/p>\n

Lately US universities have acquired a reputation for political intolerance\u00a0and censorship.\u00a0 I have no way of knowing how true this is, but if it is correct, I can imagine that students and lecturers might find it unsafe or impossible to access the extremist sites on which copies of this translation\u00a0presumably may\u00a0still be found.\u00a0 Indeed might even referring to such a URL\u00a0in\u00a0an essay\u00a0not place an unwary student\u00a0at risk of\u00a0official victimisation from an ill-disposed person?\u00a0 The Fordham site has a page indicating that there were calls for censorship, and suggesting that Dr Halsall displayed some professional bravery in placing it\u00a0on his site.<\/p>\n

In the circumstances I have felt that it would serve everyone best to add\u00a0the\u00a0anonymous translation\u00a0to my own collection of translations of the Fathers, where it may be safely consulted by everyone, and sits next to other works of Chrysostom not found in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers collection.\u00a0 It is here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.tertullian.org\/fathers\/index.htm#Chrysostom_Against_the_Jews<\/a><\/p>\n

The enquiry that reached me was in fact searching for a translation of Chrysostom’s sermon “Against Jews and Pagans, that Christ is God”.\u00a0 This has never been translated, as far as I know, which is a pity.\u00a0 It would be nice to complete the list of Chrysostom’s anti-Jewish works.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: The Fordham page has mysteriously reappeared.\u00a0 The URL is different, tho: http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/chrysostom-jews6.asp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An email from a correspondent revealed to me\u00a0that the anonymous translation of John Chrysostom’s Eight homilies against the Jews was no longer accessible at the Fordham University site.\u00a0 This is a nuisance.\u00a0 What to do? Back in 1998 Paul Halsall created the Medieval Sourcebook site there.\u00a0 He included this translation which he found online on […]<\/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":[889,934],"class_list":["post-7774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-information-access","tag-john-chrysostom"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774","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=7774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}