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Reading the Panarion as Collective Biography: The Heresiarch as Unholy Man

open access: yesVigiliae Christianae, 2010
AbstractThis article proposes a reading of the Panarion, a fourth-century heresiology, as a collective biography, a genre that compiled shortened biographical snapshots of prominent individuals who together embodied an idealized way of life. Epiphanius, the defender and model of orthodoxy, augmented his power and authority through his writing and ...
Young Richard Kim
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Poison in the Panarion: Beasts, Heretics, and Sexual Deviants

Vigiliae Christianae, 2016
Epiphanius builds Christian identity in his Panarion by merging two distinct discourses of othering: poison and sexual slander. By combining a rhetoric of poison with a rhetoric of sexual slander, Epiphanius produced a new way of thinking about—and creating—theological difference.
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