The Rabbula Corpus

Author : Robert R. Phenix Jr.,Cornelia B. Horn
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884140771

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The Rabbula Corpus by Robert R. Phenix Jr.,Cornelia B. Horn Pdf

A significant new study of Rabbula and Christianity in Edessa This volume makes available for the first time both the Syriac text and an English translation of every available original composition by Rabbula, the controversial bishop of Edessa (ca. 411–435 CE). It includes a new edition of the Life of Rabbula and other biographical traditions about him, including his conversion from paganism to Christianity. The texts collected in the volume are a valuable source for studying the reception history of biblical themes. In addition, the corpus offers insights into the beginnings of ecclesiastical legislation in the East, charitable work, pilgrimage, ascetic ideals, and church administration. Horn and Phenix examine Rabbula’s contribution to the Christological controversies of the fifth and sixth centuries, including his influence on Cyril of Alexandria in his debate with Theodoret of Cyrrhus and Theodore of Mopsuestia. Features A critical study of the theological, cultural, and historical development of Syriac Christianity Thorough historical, theological, and socio-cultural analysis provided for each text A previously unidentified Christian Palestinian Aramaic fragment

Author : Robert R. Phenix (Jr.),Cornelia B. Horn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0844140775

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The Rabbula Corpus by Robert R. Phenix (Jr.),Cornelia B. Horn Pdf

Author : Robert R. Phenix
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3161496760

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The Sermons on Joseph of Balai of Qenneshrin by Robert R. Phenix Pdf

Robert Phenix investigates the collection of twelve Syriac poetic sermons recounting the story of Joseph in Genesis 37 and 39-50. The authorship of these poems has been disputed, but this is the first study to attempt to argue from all aspects of the evidence that Balai of Qenneshrin is the author. The study then examines all of the data that can be associated with Balai: the religious environment of Qenneshrin and nearby Aleppo, Balai's connections with the monk-bishops of central Syria in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, particularly Acacius of Beroea/Aleppo and Rabbula of Edessa, the status of chorbishops, and the presence of Syriac speakers. Since it is argued in this study that Balai's source for the Sermons on Joseph was a Jewish text, this section also carefully examines the evidence for the Jewish community in Qenneshrin. As part of the background of the author, links between characters and the physical setting of the Sermons on Joseph and Qenneshrin are investigated. The relationship of the Sermons on Joseph to other Syriac Joseph sources and Joseph material in the Pseudepigrapha and at Qumran is discussed, followed by the question of the origin of the story, which is located in a lost Greek Jewish composition. The last section of the work examines the author's use of Hellenistic rhetoric and literary themes. The many speeches in the Sermons on Joseph reveal rhetorical arrangements that are strikingly close to the models of arrangement found in Late Antique handbooks, such as the Hermogenic Corpus . Several of these arguments are examined, as are the elaborate prefaces that introduce some of the individual Sermons on Joseph . The literary themes and motifs of the Sermons on Joseph are explored. It can be shown that some motifs known only in Syriac religious literature are employed in the Sermons on Joseph in non-religious literary contexts.

Author : Jacob A. Lollar
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666752083

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The Doctrine of Addai and the Letters of Jesus and Abgar by Jacob A. Lollar Pdf

The Doctrine of Addai tells the story of how Christianity came to the Syrian city of Edessa. It incorporates and adapts a correspondence between Jesus and the Syrian king Abgar, who wrote to Jesus requesting healing from a long-term illness. In his response, Jesus promises to send him an apostle, Addai (sometimes called Thaddaeus), who will heal Abgar’s disease and establish Christianity in his kingdom. The exchange between Jesus and Abgar and Edessa’s subsequent evangelization by Addai functions as a founding myth for Christianity in the region, which likely did become Christian under a later King Abgar in the early third century. But the activities and interactions of Addai in Edessa reflect a later time: the fifth century, when Christians in the East were embroiled in a conflict over reforms enacted by the Bishop Rabbula. These complexities of Syrian Christian history are all made clear in the introduction and rich commentary that accompanies this updated English translation of the Doctrine of Addai and related texts—including early witnesses to the Abgar/Jesus Correspondence in papyri and inscriptions, and selections from the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, the Acts of Thaddaeus, and the Acts of Mar Mari.

Author : Bernice M. Kaczynski
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199689736

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The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism by Bernice M. Kaczynski Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism addresses, for the first time in one volume, multiple strands of Christian monastic practice. Forty-four essays consider historical and thematic aspects of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Protestant, and Anglican traditions, as well as contemporary 'new monasticism'.

Author : Andrei A. Orlov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004429536

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Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism by Andrei A. Orlov Pdf

Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism explores influences of Jewish apocalypticism and mysticism on the development of Eastern Christian theology, demonstrating that recent studies of apocalyptic literature, the Qumran Scrolls, Gnosticism, and later Jewish mysticism throw new and welcome light on the sources and continuities of Orthodox spirituality and liturgy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520304147

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The Wandering Holy Man by Anonim Pdf

Barsauma was a fifth-century Syrian ascetic, archimandrite, and leader of monks, notorious for his extreme asceticism and violent anti-Jewish campaigns across the Holy Land. Although Barsauma was a powerful and revered figure in the Eastern church, modern scholarship has widely dismissed him as a thug of peripheral interest. Until now, only the most salacious bits of the Life of Barsauma—a fascinating collection of miracles that Barsauma undertook across the Near East—had been translated. This pioneering study includes the first full translation of the Life and a series of studies by scholars employing a range of methods to illuminate the text from different angles and contexts. This is the authoritative source on this influential figure in the history of the church and his life, travels, and relations with other religious groups.

Author : Asuman Lätzer-Lasar,Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110641271

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Urban Religion in Late Antiquity by Asuman Lätzer-Lasar,Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli Pdf

Urban Religion is an emerging research field cutting across various social science disciplines, all of them dealing with “lived religion” in contemporary and (mainly) global cities. It describes the reciprocal formation and mutual influence of religion and urbanity in both their material and ideational dimensions. However, this approach, if duly historicized, can be also fruitfully applied to antiquity. Aim of the volume is the analysis of the entanglement of religious communication and city life during an arc of time that is characterised by dramatic and even contradicting developments. Bringing together textual analyses and archaelogical case studies in a comparative perspective, the volume zooms in on the historical context of the advanced imperial and late antique Mediterranean space (2nd–8th centuries CE).

Author : Hans van Rensburg
Publisher : UJ Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781776489244

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Adrianus van Selms: Concise versions of his contributions in Dutch and Afrikaans theological journals (1938-82) by Hans van Rensburg Pdf

Adrianus van Selms (1906-1984) was a Dutch pastor (1930-1938) who became senior lecturer and professor in Semitic languages at the University of Pretoria (1938-1972) and lecturer in Biblical archaeology (1938-1962) at the Faculty of Theology of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika (Dutch Reformed Church of Africa). He was an acknowledged academic in South Africa and abroad and the author of numerous publications. His books were predominantly in Dutch, but he wrote most of his articles in English, thus they are theoretically accessible to the scholarly public. A number of articles, however, were published in Dutch and Afrikaans, dialects that are less easy to comprehend by those not familiar with the said two languages. The present book is an attempt to overcome the linguistic barrier and to present in a summarised way Van Selms’ contributions in three Dutch journals (Onder Eigen Vaandel, Nederlands Theologish Tijdschrift, and Kerk en Theologie), two academically-orientated Afrikaans journals (Hervormde Teologiese Studies and Acta Classica) and three journals of a more popular nature (Die Hervormer, Pro Veritate and Almanak). In total, 87 separate articles (discussed in 79 sections) of Van Selms receive attention.

Author : Abraham Terian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192696359

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The Life of Mashtots' by his Disciple Koriwn by Abraham Terian Pdf

The Life of Mashtots' is mostly praise for the inventor of the Armenian alphabet--the only inventor of an ancient alphabet known by name--and progenitor of Armenian literacy that began with the translation of the Bible. Written three years after his death, by an early disciple named Koriwn, it narrates the master's endeavors in search for letters, the establishment of schools, and the ensuing literary activity that yielded countless translations of religious texts known in the Early Church of the East. As an encomium from Late Antiquity, The Life of Mashtots' exhibits all the literary features of the genre to which it belongs, delineated through rhetorical analysis by Abraham Terian, who comments on the entire document almost phrase by phrase. Translated from the latest Armenian edition of the text (2003), this edition of The Life of Mashtots' includes a facing English translation and commentary. The extraordinary narrative parades historical characters including the Patriarch of the Armenian Church, Catholicos Sahak (d. 439), the Arsacid King of Armenia, Vramshapuh (r. 401-417), and the Roman Emperor of the East, Theodosius II (r. 408-450). Koriwn is an eminently inspiring rhetorical writer and one of the first four authors known to write in the newly invented script. The marked influence of The Life of Mashtots' is discernible in subsequent Armenian writings of the fifth century, dubbed 'The Golden Era'.

Author : Sandra Leuenberger-Wenger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004406582

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Das Konzil von Chalcedon und die Kirche by Sandra Leuenberger-Wenger Pdf

All interested in the history of the Church in Late Antiquity, especially in the development of the church and its theology it this time. Das Buch richtet sich an alle, die sich mit der Kirche in der Spätantike, mit Theologiegeschichte oder Konziliengeschichte befassen.

Author : Michael Philip Penn,Scott Fitzgerald Johnson,Christine Shepardson,Charles M. Stang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520299191

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Invitation to Syriac Christianity by Michael Philip Penn,Scott Fitzgerald Johnson,Christine Shepardson,Charles M. Stang Pdf

Introduction -- Origin stories -- Poetry -- Doctrine and disputation -- Liturgy -- Asceticism -- Mysticism and prayer -- Biblical interpretation -- Hagiography -- Books, knowledge, and translation -- Judaism -- Islam -- Religions of the Silk Road -- Appendix 1 : translations and editions -- Appendix 2 : biographies of named authors -- Appendix 3 : glossary.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004430747

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Wisdom on the Move: Late Antique Traditions in Multicultural Conversation by Anonim Pdf

Wisdom on the Move explores religious wisdom traditions in Late Antiquity and beyond. It traces the movement of such texts across linguistic, religious and cultural borders. Particular attention is paid to the monastic Apophthegmata patrum.

Author : Mark J. Boda,Daniel K. Falk,Rodney Alan Werline
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589833890

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Seeking the Favor of God by Mark J. Boda,Daniel K. Falk,Rodney Alan Werline Pdf

Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)

Author : Daniel King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317482116

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The Syriac World by Daniel King Pdf

This volume surveys the 'Syriac world', the culture that grew up among the Syriac-speaking communities from the second century CE and which continues to exist and flourish today, both in its original homeland of Syria and Mesopotamia, and in the worldwide diaspora of Syriac-speaking communities. The five sections examine the religion; the material, visual, and literary cultures; the history and social structures of this diverse community; and Syriac interactions with their neighbours ancient and modern. There are also detailed appendices detailing the patriarchs of the different Syriac denominations, and another appendix listing useful online resources for students. The Syriac World offers the first complete survey of Syriac culture and fills a significant gap in modern scholarship. This volume will be an invaluable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Syriac and Middle Eastern culture from antiquity to the modern era. Chapter 26 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.