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“Cyrille d’Alexandrie cité et citant. Sur un prétendu fragment de son In epistulam ad Corinthios”, in Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 94/4 (2018), p. 705-713.

2018

"Cyril of Alexandria quoted and quoting. On an alleged fragment of his In epistulam ad Corinthios". — This article refutes K.F. Zawadzki’s assumption that Cyril of Alexandria would have committed a kind of ‘self-plagiarism’ in his "Apologia contra Orientales" by tacitly copying a so-called fragment of the fifth book of his (now lost) commentary "In epistulam ad Corinthios", preserved in the Syriac ms. British Library Add. 14529. Three main arguments are advanced against such an hypothesis: 1) The abridged version of the fragment strongly recalls the manner in which excerptors reformulated (and reused) texts of Cyril; 2) The plethora of quotations and the few self-quotes that Cyril himself inserts in his Apologia are all explicitly identified as such; 3) The short phrases reproduced verbatim by Cyril in his writings cannot be regarded as hidden self-quotes. Therefore, one should conclude that this is not a case of Cyril plagiarizing himself, but a mere mistake for the aforementioned Syriac fragment is actually just an excerpt from Cyril’s Apologia.

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