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mountainman · 09-22-2010, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Roger Pearse

The story looks like hagiography to me, rather than history; folk story or urban legend about Christian events. This form of literature really gets going in the 5th century.

The fourth century inventor of this form of literature according to Momigliano was one of the 318 Fathers of Nicaean orthodoxy, the non Arian Athanasius, with his hagiographic "Life of Anthony" written perhaps c.360 CE.

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