
Basil of Caesarea. Questions of the Brothers
Syriac Text and English Translation
Anna M. Silvas(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 8. May 2014
Book
Hardback
378 pages
978-90-04-25227-1 (ISBN)
Description
Basil of Caesarea (c. 328-378) was the great father of Christian monasticism in eastern Anatolia, whose influence spread into all the Greek, Latin and Syriac speaking churches. Basil's counsels for ascetics in community are collected in his Asketikon. The earliest version, the Small Asketikon, did not survive in the Greek, but only in a Latin translation (The Rule of Basil), and in a Syriac translation (The Questions of the Brothers). Silvas presents the first ever edition of the entire Syriac translation, drawn from five manuscripts, the oldest from the late 5th century. The introductory study shows how the Syriac translator was himself a warm-hearted spiritual father who made his own authorial contributions to the Questions of the Brothers.
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Series
Language
English
Other
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
712 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-25227-1 (9789004252271)
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Earning her PhD from UNE (2001), Silvas is an experienced researcher in Basil of Caesarea and and his circle. She has located the site of his original ascetic retreat and published an updated critical edition of the Rule of Basil. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.