Ancoratus

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I was introduced to Epiphanius very early in my graduate school career at the University of Michigan, and this complicated , controversial historical figure has been at the center of my research interests ever since. I must thank my advisor and mentor Raymond Van Dam for introducing me to him. I am grateful to Matt Walhout, Dean of Research and Scholarship and to the Provost’s Office at Calvin College for a Calvin Research Fellowship (Fall 2009), which facilitated my preliminary work on this volume, and I also appreciate the support and encouragement I have received from my colleagues in the History and Classics Departments. I would like to thank Mark DelCogliano, who shared a prepublished copy of an introduction to and translations of Athanasius and Didymus the Blind (completed together with Andrew Radde-Gallwitz and Lewis Ayres), and Kelley Spoerl for her insightful comments and suggestions on the introduction. I also am indebted to Carole Monica Burnett, Staff Editor for the Fathers of the Church series, for her clear and open communication , keen eye, and astute suggestions and corrections, and to David Hunter, the Editorial Director, for his advice, direction, encouragement, and time. I am grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their invaluable questions, suggestions, and corrections . Any errors and shortcomings that remain are my own. As is true for all of us in the academy, any research project requires a significant sacrifice of personal time, and usually it is our loved ones who bear the greatest burden. My wife Betty and our sons Ewan and Rhys are my inspiration and joy. All my love to them. Finally, I dedicate this volume to my parents, who immigrated from South Korea in 1975 to provide their future children with the opportunity to study and to succeed. My work is in part a testament to their sacrifice and support over the years. s.d.g. ix ...