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Document Details : Title: The Date of the Treatise De Sectis Revisited Author(s): LANG, U.M. Journal: Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica Volume: 29 Date: 1998 Pages: 89-98 DOI: 10.2143/OLP.29.0.583564 Abstract : Concerning the author and the date of the De Sectis (CPG 6823), F. Loofs argued in his influential monograph on Leontius of Byzantium that this treatise was a revised version of a no longer extant Grundschrift by Leontius who he thought was identical with several of his sixth-century namesakes. This identification has met severe criticism due to the substantial doctrinal differences among the works which Loofs held to be Bearbeitungen of one and the same author’s Scholia. Therefore his Grundschrift hypothesis, already attacked by J. P. Junglas, is widely rejected today. In an article published some years ago M. van Esbroeck contends for a modified version of Loofs’ hypothesis and attempts to establish that the De Sectis is an extended version of the polemical treatise Contra Nestorianos et Eutychianos by Leontius of Byzantium, reworked between 543 and 551 for the purpose of adapting it to the particular situation in Egypt caused by the spread of the Gaianite heresy. |
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