There have been many works attributed to
Tertullian
Tertullian (; ; 155 – 220 AD) was a prolific Early Christianity, early Christian author from Roman Carthage, Carthage in the Africa (Roman province), Roman province of Africa. He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive co ...
in the past which have since been determined to be almost definitely written by others. Nonetheless, since their actual authors remain uncertain, they continue to be published together in collections of Tertullian's works. The unknown authors of these works are usually called Pseudo-Tertullian by scholars. Such works include
*''Adversus omnes haereses'', presented as an appendix to the work ''De praescriptione haereticorum'' of Tertullian. It lists 32
heresies. There is consensus that this work is not by Tertullian himself. A traditional theory is that the work is a Latin translation of a Greek original, a lost work ''Syntagma'' written by
Hippolytus of Rome
Hippolytus of Rome ( , ; Romanized: , – ) was a Bishop of Rome and one of the most important second–third centuries Christian theologians, whose provenance, identity and corpus remain elusive to scholars and historians. Suggested communitie ...
around 220. Recent scholarship, agreeing with a theory of
Richard Adelbert Lipsius, suggests that the ''Syntagma'' was also the common source for
Philastrius and the ''
Panarion'' of
Epiphanius.
[ R. van den Broek, Cis van Heertum, ''From Poimandres to Jacob Böhme: Gnosis, Hermetism and the Christian Tradition'' (2000), p. 262.] ''Adversus omnes haereses'' may have been written by
Victorinus of Pettau.
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* ''De execrandis gentium diis'' (On the Execrable Gods of the Heathens)
* ''Carmen adversus Marcionem'' (Poem against Marcion), possibly by Commodian. The '' Catholic Encyclopedia'' describes it as " doggerel hexameter
Hexameter is a metrical line of verses consisting of six feet (a "foot" here is the pulse, or major accent, of words in an English line of poetry; in Greek as well as in Latin a "foot" is not an accent, but describes various combinations of s ...
s".[
* ''Carmen de Iona propheta'' (Poem about the Prophet Jonah), possibly by Cyprianus Gallus
* ''Carmen de Sodoma'' (Poem about Sodom), possibly by Cyprianus Gallus
* ''Carmen de Genesi'' (Poem about Genesis)
* ''Carmen de judicio Domini'' (Poem about the Judgment of the Lord)
* ''Passio sanctae Perpetuae et Felicitatis'' (Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity), much of it presented as the personal diary of Perpetua, was once assumed to have been edited by Tertullian. That view is no longer widely held, and the work is usually published separately from Tertullian's own works.
]
Notes
External links
tertullian.org on ''Spurious Works''
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