Late Antique Historiography

On heresies

Title(s):
  • On heresies
  • Κεφάλαιον ἐν ᾧ κατ’ἐπιτομὴν διὰ βραχέων περὶ τῶν ἐξ ἀρχῆς αἱρέσεων, καὶ τῶν συνόδων τῶν γενομένων κατ’αὐτῶν
    (Kephalaion en hōi kat’epitomēn dia bracheōn peri tōn ex archēs haireseōn, kai tōn sunodōn tōn genomenōn kat’autōn, Chapter in which the heresies from the beginning, and the synods that were held with regard to them, are dealt with in summary and briefly.)
Author:
Period covered:
1st c.-687
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Council synopsis
Remarks:
Despite the title, the work is a council synopsis. The text is ascribed in the manuscript to Anastasius of Sinai, but Uthemann (1982: 58-73) argues against this identification, suggesting that the text is likely to be a multilayered composition rather than a homogeneous one, and that the author of its main body was probably a contemporary of Anastasius, but not Anastasius himself.
Edition - Translation:
  • K.-H. Uthemann (1982) 'Die dem Anastasius Sinaita zugeschrieben Synopsis de haeresibus et synodis'. Annuarium historiae conciliorum 14: 58-94.
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Bibliography:
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  • K.-H. Uthemann (2015) Anastasios Sinaites: Byzantinisches Christentum in den ersten Jahrzehnten unter arabischer Herrschaft (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 125). Berlin: 779-781.