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Article Dans Une Revue Henoch - Historical and Textual Studies in Ancient and Medieval Judaism and Christianity Année : 2022

Jews and Heretics in John Chrysostom

Ebrei ed eretici in Giovanni Crisostomo

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John Chrysostom simplifies the contemporary religious complexity of fourth-century Antioch by dividing humanity into four groups: Christians, heretics, Jews and ‘Greeks.’ In an attempt to preserve his own community from heretical and judaizing tendencies, he conducts his polemical battle on all fronts, but the strategies and arguments used against the different groups vary. While Chrysostom presents Judaism as a monolithic and undifferentiated entity, he gives an account of the great variety of heretical currents. However, there are also common elements in Chrysostom’s polemic, for instance the demonization of the adversary and the use of the language of impurity and disease aimed at arousing disgust in his audience. Chrysostom wanted his audience to learn how to make a division between Christians and heretics and between Christians and Jews, who in his view stand in opposition to each other. The operation could be interpreted as a process of ‘schismogenesis,’ a term coined by Gregory Bateson to analyze different forms of contact between cultures.
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Pierluigi Lanfranchi. Ebrei ed eretici in Giovanni Crisostomo. Henoch - Historical and Textual Studies in Ancient and Medieval Judaism and Christianity, 2022, 44 (2), pp.308-325. ⟨hal-04393995⟩
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