Blogs over vroegchristelijke en vroegrabbijnse parabels
On Friday 23 September 2022 Dr. Albertina Oegema, Jonathan Pater and Dr. Martijn Stoutjesdijk organized a book launch for their edited volume Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World. During the book...
In this blog we take a look at an Early Christian parable from an unexpected source: the Gospel of Philip. Before discussing the parable itself, let us take a brief look at his rather...
The first edition of the Sacrum Martyrologium Romanum published in 1584 lists 27 November as the feast day of Barlaam and Josaphat. The text contains the following note on these saints, “In India at...
In many sources from the ancient world, comparisons or analogies, often in the form of short narratives, are used to tell a larger story, to develop an argument, to demonstrate a moral lesson, or...
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