Minets Y. Works of Palladius of Helenopolis in the context of creation of ideals of Christian life: Historical and social aspect

The main research question of my dissertation is the use of biblical texts to construct ideals of exemplary Christian lives in Late Antique writings; I pay particular attention to the different purposes and the target audiences of the texts analyzed. I investigate the narrative structures where the biblical quotations, references, and allusions to the Scripture were used as well as their understanding and interpretation by Late Antique Christian authors, that is, the meanings which were read into the sacred texts and used for developing ideas and ideal images of Christianity in the fourth and fifth centuries. The main sources for the study are two texts of Palladius, bishop of Helenopolis - the Lausiac History and the Dialogue on the Life of John Chrysostom.