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Reviews REVIEWS Anastasii Sinaitae Viae Dux, cuius editionem curavit K.-H. Uthemann (Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca, 8). Turnhout-Leuven, Brepols-University Press 1981. CCXLVII + 455, 3 charts. For more than three centuries Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos led Anastasioi scholars a merry dance. Not only did he conflate Anastasius the Sinaite with Anastasius I, patriarch of Antioch (559-598), but added to this composite Anastasius the martyr-patriarch Anastasius II of An- tioch (599-609). Although the anti-Jewish tractates of An. II have been lost, the extent of the corpus of his two homonyms is considerable, and the fact that-as we know now- they were both concerned in their writings with combatting monophysism in its various forms contributed even more difficulties to the task of unravelling their respective iden- tities. In 1606, still under the influence of Nikephoros' identification, Jacobus Gretser entitled his editio princeps of the Hodegos: Anastasii Sinaitae Patriarchae Antiocheni `ODHrOE, seu Dux Viae, adversus Acephalos. Henschenius, in the middle of the seventeenth century, was the first to detect Nikephoros' error and to try to distinguish between the Anastasioi and their works (AASS Aprilis II). By the end of the nineteenth century An. Sin. was, with few exceptions, regarded as the author of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vigiliae Christianae Brill

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Vigiliae Christianae , Volume 36 (3): 294 – Jan 1, 1982

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© 1982 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0042-6032
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10.1163/157007282X00198
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REVIEWS Anastasii Sinaitae Viae Dux, cuius editionem curavit K.-H. Uthemann (Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca, 8). Turnhout-Leuven, Brepols-University Press 1981. CCXLVII + 455, 3 charts. For more than three centuries Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos led Anastasioi scholars a merry dance. Not only did he conflate Anastasius the Sinaite with Anastasius I, patriarch of Antioch (559-598), but added to this composite Anastasius the martyr-patriarch Anastasius II of An- tioch (599-609). Although the anti-Jewish tractates of An. II have been lost, the extent of the corpus of his two homonyms is considerable, and the fact that-as we know now- they were both concerned in their writings with combatting monophysism in its various forms contributed even more difficulties to the task of unravelling their respective iden- tities. In 1606, still under the influence of Nikephoros' identification, Jacobus Gretser entitled his editio princeps of the Hodegos: Anastasii Sinaitae Patriarchae Antiocheni `ODHrOE, seu Dux Viae, adversus Acephalos. Henschenius, in the middle of the seventeenth century, was the first to detect Nikephoros' error and to try to distinguish between the Anastasioi and their works (AASS Aprilis II). By the end of the nineteenth century An. Sin. was, with few exceptions, regarded as the author of the

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Published: Jan 1, 1982

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