2024.01.01 | Frazer MacDiarmid. The Memory of Ignatius of Antioch: The Martyr as a Locus of Christian Identity, Remembering and Remembered. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2.581. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022. Pp. xii + 269. ISBN: 9783161614996.
Review by Jonathon Lookadoo, Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Frazer MacDiarmid employs memory as a hermeneutical lens through which to view Ignatius’s letters from three angles: how Ignatius remembers others, how Ignatius makes provisions for his immediate memory, and how Ignatius was remembered by readers in late antiquity. The monograph began life as an Oxford D.Phil. thesis that was completed in 2021 under the supervision of Mark Edwards. The Memory of Ignatius of Antioch is carefully argued and maintains a consistent focus without getting distracted by the many possible topics on which it could have engaged. Most substantively, MacDiarmid unlocks fresh perspectives on old or overlooked issues in the letters by employing memory as a key to the Ignatian corpus.
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