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To train his soul in books [electronic resource] : Syriac asceticism in early Christianity / edited by Robin Darling Young and Monica J. Blanchard.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: engspasyc Language: English, Spanish Series: CUA studies in early ChristianityPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2011.Description: xix, 217 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780813217321 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0813217326 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 248.4/709394309015 22
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Contents:
Pt. 1. Poetry and Ephrem the Syrian. Syriac strophic poetry : intercalated psalms / Joseph P. Amar -- Efr��n de Nisibe, himnos De virginitate, I-III / Francisco Javier Mart��nez -- Pt. 2. Texts, terms, metaphors. Redeem your sins through works of charity / Gary A. Anderson -- A monastic setting for the Syriac Apocalypse of Daniel / Alexander Golitzin -- A Syriac life of Athanasius of Alexandria / Michael J. Hollerich -- Radical renunciation : the ideal of msarrq��t�� / Sebastian R. Brock -- Housekeeping : an ascetic theme in late antiquity / Susan Ashbrook Harvey -- The influence of Evagrius of Pontus / Robin Darling Young -- The Syriac discourses of Beh Isho' Kamulaya / Monica J. Blanchard -- Ode to joy / Shawqi Talia.
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Festschrift for Sidney H. Griffith.

"Bibliography of the works of Sidney H. Griffith"-- (p. 205-215).

Includes bibliographical references.

Pt. 1. Poetry and Ephrem the Syrian. Syriac strophic poetry : intercalated psalms / Joseph P. Amar -- Efr��n de Nisibe, himnos De virginitate, I-III / Francisco Javier Mart��nez -- Pt. 2. Texts, terms, metaphors. Redeem your sins through works of charity / Gary A. Anderson -- A monastic setting for the Syriac Apocalypse of Daniel / Alexander Golitzin -- A Syriac life of Athanasius of Alexandria / Michael J. Hollerich -- Radical renunciation : the ideal of msarrq��t�� / Sebastian R. Brock -- Housekeeping : an ascetic theme in late antiquity / Susan Ashbrook Harvey -- The influence of Evagrius of Pontus / Robin Darling Young -- The Syriac discourses of Beh Isho' Kamulaya / Monica J. Blanchard -- Ode to joy / Shawqi Talia.

Available electronically via the Internet.

In English with 1 contribution in Spanish. Some Syriac.

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