Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Old Testament paraphrase

Author:

Apollinarius of Laodicea the Elder

Period covered:

Creation-fall of Jerusalem?

Language:

Greek

State of Preservation:

Fragmentary

Genre:

Remarks:

A paraphrase of the historical biblical books, including the Pentateuch, the work is most likely identical to the work ascribed to Apollinarius the Younger. The work was composed in heroic meter, in response to Julian's ban on Christian teachers.

Edition - Translation:

Fragments:

Socrates of Constantinople, Ecclesiastical history 3.16.4

Users:

Sources:

Bibliography:

(1979) Clavis patrum graecorum 3645, 3673, 3741-3742
G.C. Hansen (1995) Sokrates: Kirchengeschichte (Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte, NF 1). Berlin.
H. Lietzmann (1904) Apollinaris von Laodicea und seine Schule. Tübingen.
P. Speck (1997) 'Sokrates Scholastikos über die beiden Apolinarioi'. Philologus 141: 263-369.
H.C. Teitler (2004) 'Een kerkhistoricus over klassieke vorming (Socrates Scholasticus, Hist. Eccl. 3.16).' Lampas 37: 250-255,