Talk:Sozomen

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How can Sozomen's family have been persecuted "during his childhood" by Julian who died 40 years before Sozomen was born? Perhaps it should be his grandfather's family? Rmhermen 22:17, Jun 11, 2004 (UTC)

NPOV and tone tags
I added NPOV and tone tags due to statements such as the following, which read like thesis statements:

"There are many faults and shortcomings in his work. Of many of these he himself was conscious, but it was not in his power to correct them. Frequently it was hard for him to know the truth because of the mass of divergent evidence with which he had to deal, frequently there was not enough evidence, but in every case he aimed at expressing the truth and at making his work serve some useful purpose in the defence or elucidation of Christian ideas."

"There is an excellent English translation by Chester David Hartranft, with a learned though somewhat diffuse introduction, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, II (published New York, 1890)."

It should not be the place of the wiki article to assert whether there are faults and shortcomings, or whether something is excellent or learned, though somewhat diffuse. I wonder if someone more familiar with the topic could review this article. KConWiki (talk) 03:29, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Such statements were in the original version of the article, and they were derived either from the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, or from the Catholic Encyclopedia. All being professional encyclopedias, we ought not imagine that we know better than the professionals how to write an encyclopedia.  Nyttend (talk) 22:06, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
 * We shouldn't make comments in Wikipedia's voice as to what is excellent, and statements must be directly sources, not just "this all came from somewhere else that is a reliable source". In fact, we should generally avoid encyclopedias. Doug Weller  talk 10:28, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Manuscripts
It would be interesting to know something about the manuscript tradition – in particular, how many manuscripts survive. Deipnosophista (talk) 19:15, 24 May 2023 (UTC)