Syriac idiosyncrasies : theology and hermeneutics in early Syriac literature / / by Serge Ruzer, Aryeh Kofsky.

The study of early Syriac Christianity has for decades been steadily expanding, yet its scope still lags way behind that of research relating to Greek and Latin Christianity. One of the intriguing and understudied topics here is the nature of Syriac Christianity's autonomous identity in late an...

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Superior document:Jerusalem studies in religion and culture, v. 11
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 11.
Physical Description:1 online resource (204 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Aphrahat : a witness of pre-Nicene Syrian theology
  • Ephrem on justice, free will and divine mercy in the story of the Fall
  • Liber graduum : the heavenly garden of ascetic delights
  • The cave of treasures : calvary versus earthly paradise
  • Philoxenus of Mabbug : hermeneutics of incarnation
  • Appendix : the old Syriac gospels : textual authority and hermeneutics.