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Homilies on Joshua (review)

While the distinction between the Alexandrian theological tradition and other forms of early Christian theology certainly has merit, the way in which the Asiatic tradition is delineated and contrasted with the Alexandrian tradition (12– 13) is perhaps overly schematic. The assumption that the history of debates within early Christian theology can be interpreted primarily in terms of an opposition or dialectical relation between two dominant theological frameworks might lead one to underestimate the formative role played by other historical factors (for example, the reading of pagan Neoplatonic philosophy or the need to respond to the missionary expansion of Manichaeism within the Mediterranean world). It is also possible that Prinzivalli’s discussion of the didaskaleion (school) of Alexandria (33–64) overstates the evidence for this educational entity’s institutional character and continuity over time and overestimates the degree to which it was subject to episcopal control. A further discussion of these difficult questions, arriving at conclusions somewhat different from Prinzivalli’s, may be found in Ann Browning Nelson’s “The Classroom of Didymus the Blind” (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan, 1995) and, more briefly, in my “The Origin of Evil: Didymus the Blind’s Contra Manichaeos and Its Debt to Origen’s Theology and Exegesis” (Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto, 1997, 16–17, 38–39nn. 22–27). In conclusion, Prinzivalli’s book is a suggestive and interesting contribution to current research on the reception of Origen’s thought in the third and fourth centuries and should be regarded as essential reading for all scholars with a serious interest in that topic. Byard Bennett, Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary