Professor Crawford is going to produce a new critical edition and translation of Julian's Against the Galileans, 'Galileans' being Julian's pejorative term for Christians. Written in 363 by Roman Emperor Julian, the last pagan ruler of the Roman Empire, Against the Galileans attacked the Christian faith by criticising Christians' rejection of pagan Greek and Roman gods, as well as their refusal to follow Jewish rituals and traditions. Although raised a Christian as a member of the imperial household and educated by prominent bishops, Julian abandoned the faith as a young man, secretly returning to the worship of the old gods. He made his religious commitment public when he became sole ruler of the Empire and used his short eighteen-month reign to attempt to return Rome back to pagan worship. After Julian's death, Against the Galileans was mostly lost. The work survives today only in a hundred or so scattered fragments quoted by later Christian authors, including Cyril of Alexandria, and was last translated into English over a century ago. Professor Crawford plans to use the latest techniques for reconstructing fragmentary historical sources, a method that has been developed at Tübingen for other ancient texts that also survive only in fragments. He will also deal with modern reception of Julian’s work.
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