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John Behr The Case against Diodore and Theodore: Texts and their Contexts New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 Pp. xix + 526. $265.00.
Theodore of Mopsuestia has enjoyed great scholarly interest in the last decade with the appearance of a good number of articles and monographs since the turn of the millennium. Theodore's teacher, Diodore of Tarsus, has captured much less attention from scholars. Thanks now to John Behr, the fragments of the dogmatic works of both have now been collected and placed in their proper contexts in the volume under review here. Behr, author of several books on early Christian theologians and the formation of Christian theology, attempts to collect "all the extracts from the writings of Diodore and Theodore as cited by their opponents and supporters, in their historical order, from the death of Theodore to his condemnation at the Council of Constantinople in 553. The fruit of this labor is not the reconstruction of an original text now lost, but the history of its use, the dependency of one author upon another and the employment of florilegia, revealing in this way what others found problematic and how a case was constructed" (vii-viii). Most of the fragments come from a tradition...