Receptions of Simon Magus as an Archetype of the Heretic

Alberto Ferreiro is Emeritus Professor in the Department of History at Seattle Pacific University, where he taught for 36 years. He is the author of 11 books, most recently Epistolae Plenae: The Correspondence of the Bishops of Hispania with the Bishops of Rome: Third through Seventh Centuries (2020), and approximately 130 scholarly articles in journals such as Vigiliae Christianae, Harvard Theological Review, and Hispania Sacra. His areas of research are Late Antique Hispania and Gallia, Apocryphal Simon Magus, and the Catalán sermons of Vicent Ferrer. Ephraim Nissan is a scholar with over 600 publications. He has guest-edited thematic issues for journals more than twenty times, most recently a volume for the centennial of Berthold Laufer's Sino-Iranica on cultural exchanges involving Asia. His humanities research is interdisciplinary and address late antique, pre-modern, and recent cultures, mainly Jewish studies, but also Italian, folklore, humour studies, history of medicine, and more.

• 1. Apocryphal Images of Simon Magus in an Altar of Sant Pere de Terrasa (Seu d’Ègara), Catalunya by Lluís Borrassà Alberto Ferreiro; Alberto Ferreiro.- 2. Flying Simon Magus: The Motif of Flight in Hagiography and Counter-Biography; Ephraim Nissan.- 3. Simon Magus in Arrigo Boito’s Opera Nerone; Ephraim Nissan.- 4. Simon Magus as the archetype of polemical portrayals of Mani; Ephraim Nissan.