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1 online resource (358 p.) |
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Oxford Early Christian Studies |
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Oxford early Christian studies.
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Cover -- The Library of Paradise: A History of Contemplative Reading in the Monasteries of the Church of the East -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Permissions -- Text and Romanizations -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Map -- PART I: METHODOLOGY -- 1. Introduction: Framing Questions for the Study of Contemplative Reading in the Church of the East -- 1.1 "Reading Takes No Measures against the Erosion of Time": Guiding Questions for the History of Reading -- 1.2 A Catalogue to the Library of Paradise |
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2. Manuscripts without Readers? Perspectival Obstacles to the Study of Syriac Ascetic Reading -- 2.1 The Curious Case of the Invisible Monastic Readers of Dayr al-Suryān -- 2.1.1 "The Government and the Museum Have Done their Duty": Absence of Readers as Justification of the British Museum Collection -- 2.1.2 "The Literature of Syria is, on the Whole, not an Attractive One": Omission of Monastic Contextfrom the History of Syriac Literature -- 2.2 Conclusion |
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3. Was There a Syriac Lectio Divina? Models and Definitions for the Study of Contemplative Reading in the Church of the East in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries -- 3.1 What Was Lectio Divina? -- 3.2 Egyptian Monasticism: A Shared Source for Lectio Divina and Syriac Contemplative Reading -- 3.3 "Lectio Divina" and Syriac Scholarship -- 3.4 Defining Contemplative Ascetic Reading -- 3.5 Conclusion -- PART II: NARRATIVE -- 4. Contemplative Reading on the Banks of the Euphrates: The Establishment of a Tradition from Ephrem the Syrian to Abraham of Kashkar |
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4.1 Historical Development of Syriac Christianity -- 4.2 The "Proto-Monastic"Syriac Tradition -- 4.3 The Fusion of "Egyptian" and "Syriac" Ascetic Theologies -- 4.4 Reading and Prayer in John the Solitary -- 4.5 Fifth-Century Crises in the Church of the East -- 4.6 The Early Life of Abraham of Kashkar -- 4.7 Influences of the School of Nisibis on East Syrian Contemplative Reading -- 4.8 Contemplative Reading in Abraham of Nathpar -- 4.9 Contemplative Reading in the Monastic Rules of Abraham of Kashkar and His Successors -- 4.10 Rabban Bar ʿEdta, Model Contemplative Reader |
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4.11 "Great Mother of Teachers": Women as Contemplative Readers and Teachers of Literacy -- 4.12 Conclusion -- 5. "Cloak, Tunic, Book, Cell": Reading Evagrius in Syriac with Babai the Great -- 5.1 Evagriana Syriaca: Reading Evagrius in Mesopotamia -- 5.1.1 History and Hagiography: Reading "The Triumph of Blessed Mar Evagrius" -- 5.1.2 "The Common Version": Reading Evagrius in Translation -- 5.1.3 The Commentaries of Babai the Great: A Guided Contemplative Reading of Evagrius -- 5.2 Contemplation as the Culmination: The Evagrian Framework of Syriac Ascetic Reading |
| Summary |
Contemplative reading is a spiritual practice developed by Christian monks in sixth- and seventh-century Mesopotamia. The Library of Paradise tells the story of this Syriac tradition in three phases: its establishment as an ascetic practice, the articulation of its theology, and its maturation and spread |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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5.2.1 Moving the Metaphysical Goalposts: Syriac Revisions to Evagrian Eschatology |
| Subject |
Church of the East -- Spiritual life
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Church of the East fast |
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Spiritual life -- Eastern churches.
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Contemplation.
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Contemplation
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Spiritual life
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Spiritual life -- Eastern churches
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0192573284 |
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9780192573285 |
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