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Author |
: Bruria Bitton-Ashkelony |
Publisher |
: Vigiliae Christianae, Suppleme |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105126879407 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Monastic School of Gaza by : Bruria Bitton-Ashkelony
The book deals with the history of the monastic community in the region of Gaza in Late antiquity. It examines the monastic career and teachings of central figures such as Abba Isaiah, Peter the Iberian, Barsanuphius and John, and Dorotheus. The social, religious and material aspects of this community are discussed in comparison with other contemporary monastic centers.
Author |
: Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2006-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789047408444 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9047408446 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Monastic School of Gaza by : Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony
This book studies one of the most striking chapters in the history of late antique monastic culture, provided by the monastic legacy of Gaza. A monastic intellectual community flourished in the region of Gaza from the fourth to the seventh century, producing a wealth of literary works. In this diverse and exciting literary corpus—especially in the unique correspondence between spiritual leaders and their clientele—matters that are usually only hinted at in monastic sources, are vividly portrayed. Distinct from the dry and matter-of-fact monastic instructions and the stereotypes of hagiography, this corpus exposes the psychological tensions, moods, frustrations, and elations in the daily existence of the monks, revealing them as creatures of flesh and blood. This book seeks to frame the historical development of this community and endeavours to analyze the spiritual and intellectual context of what may be termed the monastic school of Gaza. The legacy of this complex and thriving centre cuts across theological differences and boundaries. Shedding light on these neglected educated circles enhances and somewhat balances the overall historical picture of late antique ascetic culture and Palestinian Christianity.
Author |
: Kyle A. Schenkewitz |
Publisher |
: American University Studies |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1433132214 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781433132216 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dorotheos of Gaza and the Discourse of Healing in Gazan Monasticism by : Kyle A. Schenkewitz
Serving as a dynamic figure in the monastic school, Dorotheos of Gaza transformed the traditional understanding of healing in the spiritual life. Gazan monastic teachers, Isaiah of Scetis, Barsanuphius, John, and Dorotheos, utilized this discourse of healing to instruct and guide their followers in the monastic life. As a predominant part of human existence, sickness and suffering were sought to be understood and interpreted. For some teachers, healing was purely a metaphor for spiritual renewal brought about through illness and pain. For others, physical distress was instructive for renewed endurance and trust. Driven by a new distinction, Dorotheos pursued the concept of healing as an extension beyond the metaphor and into the physical reality experienced in the body. Encouraging his followers to pursue this idea, he further developed the importance of healing in his tradition by emphasizing the significance of physical and spiritual well-being. The life of healing he envisioned was a life full of virtue, carefully navigating all disruptions of life, and strengthening the soul and the body.
Author |
: Lillian I. Larsen |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 411 |
Release |
: 2018-08-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108168847 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108168841 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Monastic Education in Late Antiquity by : Lillian I. Larsen
In re-examining the Christianization of the Roman Empire and subsequent transformation of Graeco-Roman classical culture, this volume challenges conventional ways of understanding both the history of Christian monasticism and the history of education. The chapters interrogate assumptions that have framed monastic practice as pedagogically unprecedented, with few obvious precursors and/or parallels. A number explore how both teaching and practice merge classical pedagogical structures with Christian sources and traditions. Others re-situate monasticism within a longer trajectory of educational and institutional frameworks, elucidating models that remain central to the preservation of both Greek and Latin literary culture, and the skills of reading and writing. Through re-examination of archaeological evidence and critical re-reading of signature monastic texts, each documents the degree to which monastic structures emerged in close alignment with urban, literate society, and retain established affinity with classical rhetorical and philosophical school traditions.
Author |
: Martin C. Albl |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 399 |
Release |
: 2024-03-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004693098 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004693092 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Catena to James by : Martin C. Albl
The Catena to James (compiled ca. 700 CE) collected excerpts from the best ancient Greek commentaries on the Letter of James, ranging from Origen to Maximus the Confessor. This translation and commentary make the whole Catena available for the first time in a modern language. An extensive introduction locates the Catena both in its own historical and literary context and in the context of modern catena studies. The detailed commentary elucidates the wide-ranging and sophisticated nature of the philological, historical-critical, rhetorical, ethical, theological, and pastoral insights of these ancient readers of James.
Author |
: Brouria Bitton Ashkelony |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 291 |
Release |
: 2004-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004138681 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004138684 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christian Gaza In Late Antiquity by : Brouria Bitton Ashkelony
This valuable collection of thirteen studies provides an overview of recent research on central issues concerning the history of late antique Gaza. Several essays address various aspects of the continuity of pagan culture in Christian Gaza, festivals, spectacles, and the classical legacy of the fifth and sixth centuries, thus highlighting the public life of the city as a unique synthesis of the new and old worlds. Several articles deal with central topics pertaining to the monastic life developed in the region of Gaza and its vicinity between the fourth and seventh centuries. More specifically, they explore the rich Correspondence of Barsanuphius and John, the spiritual leaders of this monastic community. Two papers furnish an archeological survey of the monasteries of Gaza, and a discussion on the geographical and administrative aspects of its territory. Certain articles focus on the anti-Chalcedonian resistance of this monastic center in the wake of the council of Chalcedon, while others tackle the change of its stance in the time of Emperor Justin (518-527). In sum, this book covers a relatively neglected chapter in the complex and fascinating Christian history of the Holy Land.
Author |
: Nur Masalha |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2022-02-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780755642977 |
ISBN-13 |
: 075564297X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Palestine Across Millennia by : Nur Masalha
In this magisterial cultural history of the Palestinians, Nur Masalha illuminates the entire history of Palestinian learning with specific reference to writing, education, literary production and the intellectual revolutions in the country. The book introduces this long cultural heritage to demonstrate that Palestine was not just a 'holy land' for the four monotheistic religions – Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Samaritanism – rather, the country evolved to become a major international site of classical education and knowledge production in multiple languages including Sumerian, Proto-Canaanite, Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and Latin. The cultural saturation of the country is found then, not solely in landmark mosques, churches and synagogues, but in scholarship, historic schools, colleges, famous international libraries and archival centres. This unique book unites these renowned institutions, movements and multiple historical periods for the first time, presenting them as part of a cumulative and incremental intellectual advancement rather than disconnected periods of educational excellence. In doing so, this multifaceted intellectual history transforms the orientations of scholarly research on Palestine and propels current historical knowledge on education and literacy in Palestine to new heights.
Author |
: Jonathan L. Zecher |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2015-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191037986 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191037982 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Role of Death in the Ladder of Divine Ascent and the Greek Ascetic Tradition by : Jonathan L. Zecher
The Ladder of Divine Ascent, the work of an otherwise shadowy figure, John Climacus (meaning of the Ladder), abbot of St. Catherine's, Sinai (ca. 579-649 CE), is one of the most popular and enduring classics of Greek ascetic spiritual direction. Hailed as the great synthesis of early ascetic writings, the Ladder presents a spirituality self-consciously rooted in the literary and theological tradition of the Desert Fathers and the Great Old Men of Gaza. Despite its incredible popularity among monastic and lay readers, the Ladder is virtually unknown in scholarship. In this work, Jonathan L. Zecher offers a sustained study of the Ladder's spiritual vision, which is contextualized within an equally sustained genealogical survey of Climacus' own tradition. The Ladder is built up through the 'memory of death', a term referring to admonitions of early authors to remember one's inevitable but unknowable death and to contemplate the divine judgment which would follow to cultivate particular ascetic, Christian, lifestyles in their readers. In the literature that formed Climacus, every aspect of the 'memory of death' varied considerably, but Climacus draws these together in the Ladder so that death and the judgment which follows defines a symbolic framework within which monks reflect on their past and approach the future. Climacus also took up metaphorical practices of dying to oneself and others to craft an idea of spiritual progress in the imitation of Christ taking into account failure and frailty. At the heart of this study is the abiding question of how tradition forms, and in the Ladder is an outstanding example of how unflinching fidelity to tradition results in a creative, synthetic achievement.
Author |
: Oliver Nicholson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 1743 |
Release |
: 2018-04-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192562463 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192562460 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity by : Oliver Nicholson
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity is the first comprehensive reference book covering every aspect of history, culture, religion, and life in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East (including the Persian Empire and Central Asia) between the mid-3rd and the mid-8th centuries AD, the era now generally known as Late Antiquity. This period saw the re-establishment of the Roman Empire, its conversion to Christianity and its replacement in the West by Germanic kingdoms, the continuing Roman Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Persian Sassanian Empire, and the rise of Islam. Consisting of over 1.5 million words in more than 5,000 A-Z entries, and written by more than 400 contributors, it is the long-awaited middle volume of a series, bridging a significant period of history between those covered by the acclaimed Oxford Classical Dictionary and The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. The scope of the Dictionary is broad and multi-disciplinary; across the wide geographical span covered (from Western Europe and the Mediterranean as far as the Near East and Central Asia), it provides succinct and pertinent information on political history, law, and administration; military history; religion and philosophy; education; social and economic history; material culture; art and architecture; science; literature; and many other areas. Drawing on the latest scholarship, and with a formidable international team of advisers and contributors, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity aims to establish itself as the essential reference companion to a period that is attracting increasing attention from scholars and students worldwide.
Author |
: Yonatan Moss |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2016-05-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520289994 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520289994 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Incorruptible Bodies by : Yonatan Moss
"Incorruptible Bodies examines a fateful theological controversy that raged in the eastern Roman empire in the early sixth-century. The controversy, whose main participants were the anti-Chalcedonian leaders Severus of Antioch and Julian of Halicarnassus, centered on whether or not Jesus' body was corruptible prior to its resurrection from the dead. Viewing the controversy in light of late antiquity's multiple images of the 'body of Christ,' Yonatan Moss reveals the underlying political, ritual, and cultural stakes of this debate and its long-lasting effects"--Provided by publishe