{"product_id":"mark-the-deacon-the-life-of-porphyry-of-gaza-translated-with-introduction-and-notes-with-a-translation-of-the-georgian-life-9781836243342","title":"Mark the Deacon: The Life of Porphyry of Gaza: Translated with Introduction and Notes, with a Translation of the Georgian Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Late Antiquity Gaza was an exceptionally prosperous city, with wealth derived from a flourishing wine trade across the Mediterranean, as well as an intellectual centre whose leading lights combined traditional classical and Christian learning. Bishop Porphyry is famous for effecting the transformation in the early fourth century AD of this thriving community from a bastion of pagan beliefs into a Christian city, primarily through the destruction of the main temple to the god Marnas and other pagan sanctuaries and the working of miracles for the benefit of the local population. Conversion was neither easy nor guaranteed, since the leaders of local society at the time were solidly pagan and prepared to mobilize violence to defend their traditional ways. His success required missions to the empire's capital, Constantinople, where he interacted with the Patriarch John Chrysostom and imperial authorities. On one occasion he managed with the help of Empress Eudoxia to outmanoeuvre Emperor Arcadius into acceding to his request for imperial authority and physical backing to secure the closure and demolition of temples. The two key versions of Porphyry's biography are here presented together in new translations for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChilders, Jeff:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jeff Childers is Professor of Early Christianity at Abilene Christian University. He specializes in eastern Christianity, manuscript studies, patristics, New Testament textual criticism, early Christian spirituality, and the history of Bible interpretation\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRapp, Claudia:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Claudia Rapp is Professor of Byzantine Studies, University of Vienna; Director, Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences. She specializes in the social and cultural history of Late Antiquity and Byzantium.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhitby, Michael:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMichael Whitby is Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham. His many publications include, with Mary Whitby, \u003ci\u003eChronicon Paschale 284-628\u003c\/i\u003e (Translated Texts for Historians 7, LUP 1989, new edition in preparation); \u003ci\u003eThe Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius Scholasticus\u003c\/i\u003e (Translated Texts for Historians 33, LUP 2000) and \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Ancient History XIV, Late Antiquity, Empire and Successors A.D. 425-600\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge University Press 2000) co-ed with Averil Cameron and Bryan Ward-Perkins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51415277076754,"sku":"9781836243342","price":164.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7695497d-ac1a-4710-82ba-d0c6e69e02df.jpg?v=1751132147","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mark-the-deacon-the-life-of-porphyry-of-gaza-translated-with-introduction-and-notes-with-a-translation-of-the-georgian-life-9781836243342","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}