- Pseudo-Tertullian
Pseudo-Tertullian is the scholarly name for the unknown author of "Adversus Omnes Haereses", an appendix to the work "De praescriptionem haereticorum" of
Tertullian . It lists 32heresies , and there is consensus that this work is not by Tertullian himself. [Reinhard Pummer, "Early Christian Authors on Samaritans and Samaritanism" (2002), p. 32.]A traditional theory is that the work is a Latin translation of a Greek original, a lost work "Syntagma" written by Hippolytus, c. 220. Recent scholarship, agreeing with a theory of
Richard Adelbert Lipsius , suggests that this work "Syntagma" was the common source forPhilastrius and the "Panarion" ofEpiphanius , also [R. van den Broek, Cis van Heertum, "From Poimandres to Jacob Böhme: Gnosis, Hermetism and the Christian Tradition" (2000), p. 262.] .The name "Pseudo-Tertullian" is also applied to the author of a poem written against
Marcion . The "Catholic Encyclopedia " describes it as "doggerel hexameter s", and mentions two theories: that the poem was written byCommodian ; and that "Adversus Omnes Haereses" was written byVictorinus of Pettau . [ [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09645c.htm CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Marcionites ] ]Notes
External links
* [http://www.tertullian.org/works_spurious.htm tertullian.org on "Spurious Works"]
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