User talk:Raschau

Mdd (talk) 19:41, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Macarius of Egypt
Hi Raschau, I moved the lemma you created with two quotes from Fifty Spiritual Homilies to Macarius of Egypt. Could you supply the source that says this work is not by Macarius of Egypt? -- Mdd (talk) 19:42, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * See the Wikipedia entry at Macarius of Egypt. ~ Ningauble (talk) 20:06, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I added some extra data to the lemma. -- Mdd (talk) 22:54, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * The Maloney translation was published as Pseudo-Macarius: The Fifty Spiritual Homilies and the Great Letter. The preface, reflecting the latest in Macarian scholarship since A. J. Mason's translation, identifies the author as a Syrian monastic and moderate Messalian who was heavily influenced by Gregory of Nyssa. The identification of Pseudo-Macarius as Symeon of Mesopotamia is based on ancient manuscripts of the Homilies identifying him as such, from the preface: "H[ermann] Dörries [in his fundamental study Die Theologie des Makarios/Symeon (Göttingen, 1978)] discovered that some of the ancient manuscripts attributed the authorship to one Symeon of Mesopotamia." (p. 11). The author himself (Maloney) concludes that the author of the Homilies was "Pseudo-Macarius/Symeon of Mesopotamia." (p. 13). Raschau (talk) 23:19, 10 March 2017 (UTC)