Syrians and the Others

Cultures of the Christian Orient in the Middle Ages

Edited by Basil Lourié & Nikolai N. Seleznyov

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The volume contains the first editions of a number of works of Syrian authors and a publication of Coptic liturgical texts. It also includes a discussion of the letters of Nicetas Stethatos available only in Georgian and other patristic/hagiographical topics.

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SKU (ISBN): 978-1-4632-0424-2

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Series: Scrinium: Revue de patrologie, d’hagiographie critique et d’histoire ecclésiastique 10

Publication Date: Sep 26,2014

Interior Color: Black

Trim Size: 6 x 9

Page Count: 543

Language: English

ISBN: 978-1-4632-0424-2

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This volume contains the first editions of a number of works of Syrian authors (in Syriac and Arabic) including two excerpts from John bar Penkaye’s "Ktaba de-resh melle", an excerpt from "The Blessed Compendium" of Jirjis al-Makin ibn al-Amid, an excerpt from the "Kitab al-Majdal", and hymns from the "Warda" collection, as well as a publication of a series of Coptic prayers for travellers. It also contains a discussion of the letters of Nicetas Stethatos available only in Georgian. Other contributions deal with the hagiography (Byzantine, Old Russian, and Syrian, with a special attention to the so-called “verbal hagiography” which is an intermediary field between the written hagiography and the folklore) and the patrology (with a special attention to philosophical problems of Byzantine patristics). Some detailed book reviews discuss, among others, various problems of the late Byzantine and the 19th- and 20th-century Ethiopian and Russian theology.

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	Contributor	Biography
	Basil Lourié	Basil Lourié is the editor in chief of "Scrinium: Revue de patrologie, d'hagiographiecritique et d'histoire ecclésiastique" (St. Petersburg, Russia). He holds a Ph. D. and a Dr. habil. in Philosophy from St. Petersburg State University. He has written extensively on theological, liturgical and hagiographical traditions of the Christian Orient with a special attention to the philosophical and logical topics in patristics as well as to the Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian liturgical calendars.
	Nikolai Seleznyov

Table of Contents (page 7)
List of Abbreviations (page 10)
Critical Editions (page 11)

The Origins of the Temporal World: the First me'mra of the Ktaba d-reš melle of John Bar Penkaye (Yulia Furman) (page 13)
Zeus, Artemis, Apollo: John bar Penkaye on Ancient Myths and Cults (Yulia Furman) (page 57)
The Laments of the Philosophers over Alexander the Great according to The Blessed Compendium of al-Makin ibn al-'Amid (Nikolai N. Seleznyov) (page 107)
“These stones shall be for a memorial”: A discussion of the abolition of circumcision in the Kitab al-Magdal (Nikolai N. Seleznyov) (page 125)
The Warda Hymnological Collection and Šlemon of Ahla? (13th century) (Anton Pritula) (page 159)
Litanies or Prayers for Travellers (Youhanna Nessim Youssef) (page 218)

Hagiography (page 227)

Folkloric Hagiography and the Popular Cult of Saints: Formation of Beliefs and Plots (Andrey Moroz) (page 229)
Hagiographic Writings in the Old Believer Controversies over the Suicidal Death at the End of the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Centuries (Peter Prokopevs Message to Daniil Vikulin) (Alexander V. Pigin) (page 240)
Concerning the Dates of St. Makarios of Peleketes Life and the Dating of his Vita (Tatiana A. Senina (nun Kassia)) (page 255)
Did St. John, the Abbot of the ton Katharon Monastery, Join the Iconoclasts under Leo V the Armenian? (Tatiana A. Senina (nun Kassia)) (page 261)
Verbal Hagiography of Seraphim of Sarov (Yulia M. Shevarenkova) (page 265)

Patrology (page 289)

Hierarchies of Beings in the Patristic Thought: Maximus the Confessor, John of Damascus, and the Palamites (Dimitry Biriukov) (page 291)
The Book of the Body of Christ: Jewish-Christian Mysticism of Letters and the Name of God as an Origin for the Christian Spiritual Exegesis (Irina Kolbutova) (page 315)
A Chalcedonian Conundrum: the Singularity of the Hypostasis of Christ (Dirk Krausmuller) (page 371)
Notes on Georgian Translations of the Works of Nicetas Stethatos (Alexey Ostrovsky & Maia Raphava) (page 393)
L’anthropologie apocryphe et le traité ?e?? ????? d’Origène (Olena Syrtsova) (page 412)

Review Articles (page 423)

Providence and fate in the ancient philosophical tradition and in Greek patristics (Dmitry Biriukov) (page 425)
Notes on Mar Pin?as: A “Nestorian” Foundation Legend; the Liturgy Implied; Polemics against Jewish Mysticism; an Early Christian Apology Used; Syrian Monasticism from Athens (Basil Lourié) (page 432)
The Corpora of Old and Middle Russian Texts as an Advanced Tool for Exploring an Extinguished Language (Olga Mitrenina) (page 465)
A new book on Old Russian demonology (Aleksander V. Pigin) (page 472)
Deux livres sur Cassia de Constantinople (Tatiana A. Senina (moniale Kassia)) (page 478)
Ahiqar, his Tale and the Vita Aesopi (Christos A. Zafiropoulos) (page 489)

Reviews (page 507)

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