{"id":8580,"date":"2012-04-28T17:52:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T16:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=8580"},"modified":"2012-04-28T17:52:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T16:52:35","slug":"chapter-divisions-in-gregory-of-nyssas-contra-eunomium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2012\/04\/28\/chapter-divisions-in-gregory-of-nyssas-contra-eunomium\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter divisions in Gregory of Nyssa&#8217;s &#8220;Contra Eunomium&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is a\u00a0paper on the web by Matthieu Cassin, discussing the context of the three books of the\u00a0<em>Contra Eunomium<\/em> of Gregory of Nyssa.[ref]Matthieu Cassin\u00ab<a href=\"http:\/\/halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr\/halshs-00631316\/fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Text and context : the importance of scholarly reading. Gregory of Nyssa, Contra Eunomium<\/a>\u00bb, dans S. Douglas, M. Ludlow (\u00e9d.), <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.fr\/books?id=tIZiPKF2QeUC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=Reading%20the%20church%20fathers&amp;hl=fr&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Reading the Church Fathers<\/a>, Londres, 2011, p. 109-131 et 161-165.[\/ref]\u00a0 In the middle of it (p.112) he discussed the divisions in the text, as it has been transmitted.\u00a0 It&#8217;s fascinating stuff.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">Besides the division of Book III, the different manuscripts present a list of titles for the different chapters (\u03ba\u03b5\u03c6<span style=\"font-family: Palatino Linotype;\">\u1f71<\/span>\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9\u03b1). A large number of manuscripts indicate the chapters of Book I in the margins, proposing converging positions for them.(16) Furthermore, it is acknowledged that the chapters of Book I are by Gregory himself,(17) and I have shown that their position goes back at least to the sixth century. If this is accurate, it would be a very valuable testimony to the way Gregory understood his own text. However, the chapters of the other books are obviously not by the same hand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">(16) Matthieu Cassin, <em>L\u2019\u00e9criture de la pol\u00e9mique \u00e0 la fin du IVe si\u00e8cle: Gr\u00e9goire de Nysse<\/em>, Contre Eunome <em>III<\/em> (Th\u00e8se de doctorat, Universit\u00e9 Paris IV \u2013 Sorbonne, 2009), vol. I, 135\u20137.<br \/>\n(17) See J. A. R\u00f6der, <em>Gregor von Nyssa, Contra Eunomium I, 1\u2013146, eingeleitet, \u00fcbersetzt und kommentiert<\/em> (Patrologia 2; Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1993), 73\u20134.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">This is interesting, and I wish I could see the references!\u00a0 For if so, this is evidence of 4th century authorial chapter titles.\u00a0 The thesis does not seem to be online; while no-one on earth could access the R\u00f6der volume unless they live near a research library.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">I will write to Dr Cassin and see if I can get a peek at his pages 135-7!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a\u00a0paper on the web by Matthieu Cassin, discussing the context of the three books of the\u00a0Contra Eunomium of Gregory of Nyssa.[ref]Matthieu Cassin\u00abText and context : the importance of scholarly reading. Gregory of Nyssa, Contra Eunomium\u00bb, dans S. Douglas, M. Ludlow (\u00e9d.), Reading the Church Fathers, Londres, 2011, p. 109-131 et 161-165.[\/ref]\u00a0 In the [&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":[391,798],"class_list":["post-8580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-chapter-titles","tag-gregory-of-nyssa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580","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=8580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}