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Dr. Emiliano Fiori
The dissertation also consisted of a monographic study on the meaning of Dionysius’ work in the context of Syriac Christology and heresiology at the beginning of the 6th century. This research led me to conclude that the Areopagite was actively concerned with the emerging extremist Origenism of the monk Stephen bar Sudaili, and that the Neoplatonic form of his thought also aimed at neutralizing the dangers which that doctrine implied from an ecclesiological standpoint. My current research within the frame of the ERC project of Dr. Amirav is intended, on a first stage, to reconstruct the Syriac version of Theodore of Mopsuestia’s commentary on the epistle to the Ephesians. This commentary is preserved in Latin and, only by short fragments, in Greek. Nonetheless, it is well known that Theodore’s exegetical works were translated into Syriac already in the 5th century. These versions are not preserved as such, but had often been cited at length in later commentaries by different Syriac authors since the 9th century. It is then on these later works (partially still unpublished) that my work of reconstruction will focus. This work of edition of edition will be followed by an assessment of the meaning of Theodore’s exegetical position within the wider context of the overall Patristic reception of Ephesians.
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For my doctoral dissertation, I have prepared the editio princeps of the first Syriac version of the Areopagitic treatise On the Divine Names. The translation is due to a bilingual chief physican of the 5th-6th centuries, Sergius of Resh‘ayna, who in some respects was to the subsequent Syriac culture what Boethius was to the Latin Mediaeval culture. This critical edition will be shortly published along with that of the treatise on the Mystical Theology and of Dionysius’ Epistles. 