Poison in the "Panarion": Beasts, Heretics, and Sexual Deviants

Epiphanius builds Christian identity in his Panarion by merging two distinct discourses of othering: poison and sexual slander. By combining a rhetoric of poison with a rhetoric of sexual slander, Epiphanius produced a new way of thinking about—and creating—theological difference. By linking his opp...

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Main Author: Whitley, Thomas J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Vigiliae Christianae
Year: 2016, Volume: 70, Issue: 3, Pages: 237-258
IxTheo Classification:FA Theology
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
NCF Sexual ethics
Further subjects:B Epiphanius of Salamis Panarion poison heresiology sexual slander beasts gender identity formation
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