The title of this paper is borrowed from that of an influential
article by Paul Devos, the conclusions of which he refined in 1987. But
those conclusions - I argue -need to be revisited, particularly in the
light of a reconsideration of the chronological data supplied by the
Greek and Latin Lives of Melania the Younger.
This minor chronological puzzle turns out to have major implications for the date of the visit - or a visit -- of Cyril of Alexandria to Jerusalem, where he supposedly received the dossier of texts by Diodore and Theodore that triggered the writing of his Contra Diodorum et Theodorum. I suggest that in the sources and in their ordering in modern discussion there has been a telescoping of events, which seriously foreshortens the course of Cyril's careful and continuing campaign against the theological indiscretions of Antioch.
This minor chronological puzzle turns out to have major implications for the date of the visit - or a visit -- of Cyril of Alexandria to Jerusalem, where he supposedly received the dossier of texts by Diodore and Theodore that triggered the writing of his Contra Diodorum et Theodorum. I suggest that in the sources and in their ordering in modern discussion there has been a telescoping of events, which seriously foreshortens the course of Cyril's careful and continuing campaign against the theological indiscretions of Antioch.
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