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Singing Heresy: Hymns of Doctrinal Dissenters in Late Antiquity in Heresiological Imagination, Past and Present
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Avdokhin A.
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The chapter offers a critical re-consideration of both late antique accounts, and modern scholarly discussions, of the so-called 'heretical hymns' in use in late antique Christian communities.
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Avdokhin A. NY: Routledge, 2021.
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