On the Witch of Endor (Homily on 1 Samuel 28)

De engastrimytho · Περὶ τῆς ἐγγαστριμύθου

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About this work

Author: Origen
Attribution: authentic · A sermon of Origen on 1 Samuel 28 (1 Kingdoms 28 LXX), transmitted in the same manuscript as the Homilies on Jeremiah. Eustathius of Antioch wrote a treatise against it in the fourth century.
Date: ca. 240 (approximate) · Preached at Caesarea, probably in the same period as the Homilies on Jeremiah.
Written at: Caesarea, Palestine (probable)
Language: Greek
Genre: homily
Reference system: section (Klostermann's ten sections)
SBL abbreviation: Engastr.Not yet checked
Clavis: CPG 1423 (unverified)
Text from: Erich Klostermann, ed., Origenes Werke 3: Jeremiahomilien, Klageliederkommentar, Erklärung der Samuel- und Königsbücher, GCS 6 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1901) (Printed edition in the public domain; digital text CC BY-SA 4.0)
Critical editions: Pierre Nautin and Marie-Thérèse Nautin, Origène: Homélies sur Samuel, SC 328 (Paris: Cerf, 1986) (cited, not reproduced)
CTS URN: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2042.tlg013