Patrologia Pacifica: Selected Papers Presented to the Asia Pacific Early Christian Studies Society : : Fifth Annual Conference (Sendai, Japan, September 10–12, 2009) and other Patristic Studies / / ed. by Vladimir Baranov, Kazuhiko Demura.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Pauline,; Baranov, Vladimir,; Botha, Phil J.,; Demura, Kazuhiko,; Demura, Miyako,; Gigineishvili, Levan,; Kovalchuk, Ekaterina,; Kritzinger, Koos,; Kwon, Junghoo,; Lobovikova, Ksenia,; Lourié, Basil,; Nam, Sung Hyun,; Stander, Hennie,; Sénina, Tatiana,; Tsuji, Manabu,; Youssef, Youhanna Nessim,
• HerausgeberIn: Baranov, Vladimir,; Demura, Kazuhiko,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Scrinium: Revue de patrologie, d’hagiographie critique et d’histoire ecclésiastique
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (454 p.)

The volume collects selected papers from the fifth annual APECSS conference which focused on the topic of letters from Christian Antiquity. The conference papers deal with epistolography from the apostle Paul up to Theodore the Studite (ninth century), considered in different aspects, namely, historiography of studies, literary form, Church history, dogmatic contents, attribution, etc. Other patristic studies include hagiography, liturgics, Christian art, early Egyptian monasticism, Islamic-Christian relations in the Middle Ages, and the Jewish background of Christianity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Patrologia Pacifica Secunda -- Preface -- Beyond the Original Context: Reception of the Pauline Letters in the First Century -- The Reception of the Pauline Letters and the Formation of the Canonical Principle in Origen of Alexandria -- Ephrem the Syrian’s Fictitious Use of the Epistolary Form in His “First Discourse for Hypaṭius” -- Chrysostom on Letters and Letter-Writing -- ‘L’évergète pauvre’ dans la littérature hagiographique -- Jerome on Letters and Letter-Writing -- Letters of Eusebius of Vercelli and the Authorship of the De Trinitate: Did Eusebius of Vercelli write the Pseudo-Athanasian De Trinitate? -- On the Context and Development of Augustine’s Early Commentaries on the Pauline Letters -- How to Study Episcopal Letter-Writing in Late Antiquity: An Overview of Published Work on the Fifth and Sixth Centuries -- Peter the Iberian and Dionysius the Areopagite: Honigmann – van Esbroeck’s Thesis Revisited -- The Synodical Letter from Severus to John of Alexandria -- Constructing the Underground Community: The Letters of Theodore the Studite and the Letter of Emperors Michael II and Theophilos to Louis the Pious -- Other Patristic Studies -- The Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and St Sophia of Constantinople: An Attempt at Discovering a Hagiographic Expression of the Byzantine Encaenia Feast -- The Word Spoken by John the Bishop of Bolnisi concerning the consecration of the Holy Churches which was conducted in Jerusalem -- George of Trebizond’s Views on Islam and Their Eschatological Backgrounds -- Traces historiques des onze monastères fondés par Pachôme, Père du Coenobium, un essai de synthèse des sources variées -- Un palamite russe du début du XXème siècle : le hiéromoine Antoine Boulatovitch et sa doctrine sur l’énergie divine -- Notes -- Between Babylonia and Ethiopia: Some Thoughts about a Recent Book on the Qumranic Calendars (Jonathan Ben-Dov, Head of All Years. Astronomy and Calendars at Qumran in their Ancient Context) -- Book Reviews -- Dmitrij Bumazhnov, Visio mystica im Spannungsfeld frühchristlicher Überlieferungen. Die Lehre der sogenannten Antoniusbriefe von der Gottes- und Engelschau und das Problem unterschiedlicher spiritueller Traditionen im frühen ägyptischen Mönchtum -- Katharina Heyden, „Die Erzählung des Aphroditian“. Thema und Variationen einer Legende im Spannungsfeld von Christentum und Heidentum -- История Мученичества Мāр Ḳӯрйāḳӯca и Йōлӣтͅы (Кирика и Иулитты). ܐܛܝܠܘܝ ܗܡܐܕܘ ܣܘܩܪܘܩ ܝ ܪܡ ܐܕܗܣܕ ܐܬܝܥܫܬ Критический текст, перевод, исследование А. А. Терпелюк Martyrdom Of Mār Qūryāqūs and Yōlīṭī (Cyriacus & Julitta). Critical Text, Russian Translation From Syriac, and research by Alisa A. Terpelyuk -- Jens T. Wollesen, Patrons and Painters on Cyprus. The Frescoes in the Royal Chapel at Pyrga