| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 222 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Poet and Pope: Text and Context -- 2. Baptism, Acts, and Arator -- 3. Divinus Odor: Co-Ascension and Baptismal Participation -- 4. Lotus sed non Mundus: Simon Magus and the Raven -- 5. Eunuchi Fecunda Fides: Gentiles, Sinners, and Song of Songs 1: 5 -- 6. Saucius Infans: Baptism and Circumcision -- 7. Iustis Via, Sontibus Unda: The Crossing of the Red Sea -- 8. Aquila: The Rejuvenation of the Eagle -- 9. Postscript |
| Summary |
This is a wide-ranging study of baptismal symbolism in the early Church taking as its starting point Arator's 'Historia Apostolica', a commentary in verse on the Acts of the Apostles, written in Rome in AD 544. Baptism is a major theme is Arator's poem and his ideas are here traced back to their origins |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Arator, Subdiaconus, active 513-544. De actibus apostolorum.
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| SUBJECT |
Bible. Acts
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Bible. Acts fast |
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De actibus apostolorum (Arator, Subdiaconus) fast |
| Subject |
Baptism -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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Baptism -- Early church
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191672330 |
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0191672335 |
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