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The Significance of the Tura Papyri for Understanding Didymus the Blind The Significance of the Tura Papyri for Understanding Didymus the Blind
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The Significance of the Tura Papyri for Understanding Origen The Significance of the Tura Papyri for Understanding Origen
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The Electronic Study of the Papyri Manuscripts The Electronic Study of the Papyri Manuscripts
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Conclusion: Future Directions Conclusion: Future Directions
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12 The Discovery of the Papyri from Tura at Dayr al-Qusayr (Dayr Arsaniyus) and Its Legacy
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Published:August 2017
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This chapter examines the significant papyri find in the ancient St. Arsenius monastery in Tura, which yielded a wealth of writings in Greek from one of the most prominent heads of the Theological School of Alexandria, Didymus the Blind. Didymus has rarely received the scholarly attention one would expect for someone with such a high reputation in antiquity and with such a prodigious output of texts to study. His legacy in historiography has been affected by the perception that he is either an unoriginal thinker or a heretic. In both his commentaries and his treatises, Didymus defends Christianity and his definition of orthodoxy in debates with pagan philosophers and “heretics.” However, the ideas he developed in defending Christianity (such as allegorical exegesis) were the very things by which his ideas were judged heresy after his death by the Greek and Roman churches.
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