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See review of new edition of fragments of Porphyry's Against the Christians. The author, Matthias Becker, provides a German introduction, translation and notes. According to the review, Becker takes a middle course between maximal and minimal acceptance of given passages in other writers as genuine fragments of Porphyry. He also brings in things that Porphyry wrote elsewhere.

http://www.bmcreview.org/2017/01/20170155.html

ficino wrote:See review of new edition of fragments of Porphyry's Against the Christians. The author, Matthias Becker, provides a German introduction, translation and notes. According to the review, Becker takes a middle course between maximal and minimal acceptance of given passages in other writers as genuine fragments of Porphyry. He also brings in things that Porphyry wrote elsewhere.

http://www.bmcreview.org/2017/01/20170155.html

Thanks, ficino!

That is a very detailed review (even has a dozen footnotes)!

I may never buy the work being reviewed (US $196) but just the review itself will be really helpful to me in future.

DCH

Will there be an English translation?

Hoffman has two books of note, one on Celsus (I have, excellent) and this one on Porphyry

https://books.google.com/books/about/Po ... J9QgAACAAJ

I think the price is steep at $45 and $20 kindle, so I'd use my local library extension. Oxford rips off readers with their prices, and also screws the authors. But that is another subject --- I'm tempted to start my own publishing house for academics to get cheaper books out (mostly digital) and pay the authors better; heck I'm in Silicon Valley and friends with two venture capitol bankers. ... problem is I want to start a whiskey distillery first. Tastier and definitely more spiritual.

Blood wrote:Will there be an English translation?

Not that I've heard of. Books written for specialists usually aren't, though sometimes they are.