Narsai
Rethinking his Work and his World
1st Edition
Published on 9. October 2020
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305 pages
978-3-16-159349-9 (ISBN)
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Narsai (┼ ca. 500) war ein Gründungstheologe der Kirche des Ostens. Er verknüpfte auf kreative Weise seine einheimische syrische Tradition mit der Exegese und Theologie aus Antiochien. Diese bahnbrechende Sammlung wirft ein neues Licht auf diesen bedeutenden Denker der Spätantike.
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Editor
Born 1981; 2013 PhD from University of Chicago; currently Associate Professor in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures and Director of the Institute of Christian Oriental Research (ICOR) at The Catholic University of America.
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Born 1971; 2008 PhD from the University of Birmingham; currently Research Fellow at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University.
Born 1948; 1997 DPhil from the University of Oxford; currently Senior Lecturer in Patristics at Sankt Ignatios Theological Academy.
Content
Aaron M. Butts:
Narsai's Life and Work -
Daniel Becerra:
Exegesis, Askesis, and Identity: Narsai's
Memra on the Parable of the Ten Virgins
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Adam H. Becker:
Names in Fervent Water: Ritual and the Mediating Power of the Divine Name in Narsai's
Memre
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Dmitrij F. Bumazhnov:
Jewish-Christian Anti-Paulinism and Merkabah Mysticism around the Schools of Edessa and of Nisibis: Narsai's Polemics against Deniers of Biblical Studies in Context -
Jeff W. Childers:
In Search of Jesus: Performative Christology in Narsai's
Memre
on Baptism -
Philip Michael Forness:
The Construction of Metrical Poetry in the Homilies of Narsai of Nisibis and Jacob of Serugh -
Kelli Bryant Gibson:
An Early Syriac
Apologia Crucis
Memra 54 'On the Finding of the Holy Cross'
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Kristian S. Heal:
Narsai and the Scriptural Self -
Robert A. Kitchen:
The Ascetic Narsai: Ascetical and Monastic Practice and Theology in the
Memre
of Narsai -
Craig E.
Morrison:
The Faculty of Discernment in Narsai -
Ellen Muehlberger:
Extraordinary Conceptions: Insemination and Theories of Reproduction in Narsai's Thought -
Eva M. Rodrigo Gómez:
Painting Metaphors as a Means of Theological Expression in Narsai -
Erin Galgay Walsh:
"How the Weak Rib Prevailed!": Eve and the Canaanite Woman in the Poetry of Narsai -
J. Edward Walters:
Where Soul Meets Body: Narsai's Depiction of the Soul-Body Relationship in Context