The Discoveries Of Manuscripts From Late Antiquity Their Impact On Patristic Studies And The Contemporary World Conference Proceedings 2nd International Conference On Patristic Studies Bilingual Patricia Ciner Editor by Patricia Ciner (editor), Alyson Nunez (editor) 9782503591490, 2503591493 instant download after payment.

This book is an anthology of the proceedings from the Second
International Conference on Patristic Studies: The Discoveries of
Manuscripts from Late Antiquity: Their Impact on Patristic Studies and
the Contemporary World. This event was held in San Juan, Argentina in
March 2017. Time has an obvious lineal component where past, present and
future seem to play out inevitably on after the other. However, time
also has an enigmatic and reversible component by which the past can
transform the present and future. This mysterious aspect of time seems
to have been revealed in the discoveries of the Manuscripts of Late
Antiquity, manuscripts discovered during the 20th and 21st centuries.
Apparently as if by chance, complete libraries of manuscripts as well as
individual documents of great importance for our understanding of
historical authors and situations have come to light after having been
buried for millennia. Just some examples are the incredible discoveries
of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic library, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Origen of
Alexandria's homilies, Augustine's sermons. etc. These manuscripts are
not passive documents. They pose numerous questions to specialists from a
diverse array of fields, demanding new evaluations of a past that was
thought to be already understood and judged. This event attempted to
answer these and other questions with careful scientific rigor, seeking
answers that enrich our understanding of both the specific field of
Patristic Studies and the contemporary world in general.