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..................... Just as Origen was consecrated as a priest twice, once in Alexandria and again when he arrived in Caesarea, so the likelihood was that Theodore was baptized twice, once in each locale. ............................ What basis do you have for the claim that Origen was consecrate...

Callistus dates back to Roman bishopric into the second century. He worked under Zephyrinus and I think even Victor. Yes but the Refutation explicitly refers to the death of Zephyrinus (traditionally 217 CE), so the work in its present form must be later than that. The scandalous account of the lif...

I think Origen's argument is similar to that of Hippolytus in Refutation of All Heresies where heretics are accused of being over-influenced by Greek philosophy. A work explicitly attributed to Origen in the MSS. The First book is attributed in the manuscripts to Origen. It has a separate transmiss...

M David Litwa is certainly alive to the very real possibility that the author may not be either Origen or Hippolytus and instead labels the author as unknown and refers to him as "The Refutator". However Litwa appears to have uncritically accepted as a premise to his discussion (as presen...

On Origen's meaning in to Gregory extending to gospels or scripture: Origen elaborates on Korah's sacrilege with an allegorical interpretation. Korah stands for the Gnostics, and the bronze censers, holy appurtenances for worship, serve as a “figure of the divine Scripture [figuram ... Scripturae d...

There is an interesting account of the sources of Ovid's creation account here

Andrew Criddle

The Alexander Romance is basically a piece of historical fiction, It is not a reliable source for evidence about Alexander's death.

Andrew Criddle

The earliest surviving manuscript is eleventh century held in Venice. See History of Christian Literature
AFAIK photographic images are not available.

Andrew Criddle

I think you should distinguish between the idea that Mark created the explanation for this parable and the idea that Mark created the parable itself. (FWIW the late John Meier in A Marginal Jew the Parables argued in detail that although many of the parables were created by the Gospel writers severa...

There is a detailed discussion of the origin of these prologues (often called the Marcionite prologues) at Origin of Prologues I'm not sure I agree with the conclusions but the discussion is interesting.

Andrew Criddle