Hagiography of Saint Abercius

Ken Tully (MPhil, MDiv) is Adjunct Faculty, Classical Studies, Villanova University, and a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford. In 2020, he co-authored Jerusalem Afflicted: Quaresmius, Spain, and the Idea of a 17th-Century Crusade (Routledge), which presented the first-ever modern translation and commentary on the Latin sermon first published in 1631.Pamela D. Johnston (PhD) is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Fresno Pacific University, where she teaches a broad range of classes in ancient and medieval history and classics. She is the author of The Military Consilium in Republican Rome (Gorgias Press), the first full-length treatment of the consilium in the Roman Republic.

• PART 1: Introduction; 1. Stone, Story, and Scholarship: Introducing Abercius; 2. Chronology and Context: Historical considerations; 3. Doctrine and Discourse: The Christocentric version; 4. A Model Metaphrasis: The Hagiocentric version; 5. Tomb Terminology: The Epigraphic version; 6. Curious and Concise: The Epitome and Synaxarion; 7. Reconstructing a Reading: The Inscription text; 8. Tracing Traditions: Twenty-nine manuscripts; 9. A Broader Base: Critical text and apparatus; 10. Style, Scholars, and Sectioning: English translations; PART 2: The Texts—Greek and English; 1. The Christocentric version; 2. The Hagiocentric version; 3. The Epigraphic version; 4. The Epitome; 5. The Synaxarion; 6. The Inscription.