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The erudition, precision and commitment guiding this study is admirable. Nonetheless, while linguistic analysis may entice the reader with the promise of a higher degree of objectivity, preconceptions regarding the base text, its structuring, the construction of reading, and the interpretation of linguistic data involve a fair amount of subjective and debatable factors that confine Systemic Functional Linguistics within the methods to be tamed by responsible scholarship.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgab006

Rotterdami Erasmus ezt írta 1519-ben, Jacob Hoogstraetenhez címzett levelében: „Ha keresztényi dolog gyűlölni a zsidókat, akkor bőven keresztények vagyunk itt mindnyájan.” Ez a mondat olyan, mintha a reformáció századának görbe tükre lenne, amely az (ön)irónia sajátos torzításával mutatja meg, hogyan viszonyult a 16. század értelmiségének javarésze – némi anakronizmussal fogalmazva – a zsidókérdéshez. Erasmus szerint a zsidógyűlölet egyértelműen része a kereszténységnek, noha a humanista mester úgy gondolta – és az irónia jobbára ebben van –, hogy a hiteles kereszténység nem merülhet ki a zsidók gyűlöletében.

The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it sets the historical context in which Aphrahat wrote his Demonstrations and deals with the interesting relationship between his writings, ‘against the Jews’ and the Sassanian persecution of Christians. It also treats his refutation of the Jewish charges. Secondly, it addresses his ‘unique’ view of christology which is not in line with the Nicene decision concerning one aspect yet at the same time it is congruent with it. The paper also tries to point out that his view on christology was ‘unique’ but not exceptional in the Early Church.