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Journal of Early Christian Studies 8.1 (2000) 105-106



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Book Review

Introduction


Although JECS does not normally review journals, I want to call your attention to two journals published by our colleagues in Argentina. The first is Epimedeia: Revista de Estudios sobre la Tradicion, a publication of the Centro de Investigaciones en Filosofia e Historia de las Religiones de la Universidad Argentina John F. Kennedy in Buenos Aires. It contains articles, shorter pieces (Notas), and book reviews. A second journal is Diadoche: Revista des Estudios de Filosofia Platonica y Cristiana, published jointly by the Instituto de Filosofia de la Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago and the Departamento de Filosofia de la Universidad Argentina John F. Kennedy. The title explains its focus. The issue sent to me contain articles on Augustine and Dionysius. The contributions are in Spanish. My thanks to the editors for alerting their North American colleagues to these publications.

Histories of the papacy continue to be popular, and the newest addition is William LaDue's The Chair of Saint Peter: A History of the Papacy (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1999, pp. x + 374, $35.00, ISBN 1-57075-249-4). Like most general histories, it concentrates on the later periods and devotes only forty-seven pages to the period from Clement of Rome to Gregory the Great, but its treatment of the early period is solid, reliable, and reflects contemporary scholarship. JECS readers may also want to look at Encyclopedia of the Vatican and Papacy, edited by Frank Coppa (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999, pp. viii + 483, $99.50, ISBN 0-313-28917-4). It contains brief entries on the popes, but the editor has chosen accomplished scholars to do those entries; e.g., Gerard Ettlinger on Leo I and Glenn Olsen on Gregory I. Most of non-biographical entries deal with later periods of papal history.

Several titles have been republished as paperbacks and thus are within the financial range of students. B. R. Rees's Pelagius: Life and Letters contains his book of that title but it also contains, with separate pagination, his translation of the letters of Pelagius, a valuable combination. It is from Boydell and Brewer and is $55.00 (ISBN 0-85115-714-9). Princeton UP has reissued Michael Williams' Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category, $19.95 (ISBN 0-691-00542-7), and The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art, $26.95 (ISBN 0-691-00939-2). Yale UP has published a paperback edition of Ramsay MacMullen's Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries, $16.00 (ISBN 0-300-08077-8), and Eamon Duffy's Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes, $18.95 (ISBN 0-300-07799-8). The University of California Press offers a paperback edition of Pachomius: The [End Page 105] Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt by Philip Rousseau, $19.95 (ISBN 0-520-21959-7).

Joseph F. Kelly

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