...probably had no more than a publicly financed "chair" in Platonic philosophy. Probably only toward the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century CE was a Platonic school revived and systematically organized in Athens, with its own resources and...

...his extensive and largely preserved correspondence. Jerome, the other great Father of the Church at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century, referred in this correspondence to Augustine's world-wide fame and even stated that he was honoured...

...invitation to others to join him in his "philosophical" quest. Fourth- and fifth-century Greek apocalyptic The end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century witnessed also a revival of the apocalyptic genre among Eastern Christian writers. This seems to have...

...catechumens' habit of postponing baptism until adulthood was widespread, by the time of Augustine at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century, the practice of infant baptism was in the ascendent. Even before the dust had settled on the Donatist...

...derived from a monk of the name of Maroun. But there were two monks of that name, one who flourished at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century, dying in the year 433, and who resided in Djebel Koros, one day's distance from Aleppo. The other,...

...in Palestine, not those of the Judean desert discussed below, is quite meager. It is known that at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century Paula's nuns, who also came from the West, would participate in Sunday Mass in the church of the Nativity,...

...possibility of a patriarchal collection of money in the diaspora is only indicated by Roman sources from the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century. This money seems to have at least originally consisted of voluntary donations whose collection gradually...

...causing the destruction of twenty-three towns across the land.30 In the same period — primarily at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century — the Christian rule over the 25 Na'aran: NEAEHL vol. 3, pp. 1075-1076.. Bet-Shean: See Tzori, p....

...governor of Gaul. The collection, as it has come down to us, was assembled in Gaul sometime between the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century. After Pliny's panegyric, which must have been a sort of undisputed model, three other speeches follow...

...to write the classical texts on rolls.157 One might hypothesize that this situation changed when, at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century CE, Christians took over formerly pagan institutions of higher learning, were the classical literary...