Wisdom on the move : : late antique traditions in multicultural conversation : essays in honor of Samuel Rubenson /

Wisdom on the move : : late antique traditions in multicultural conversation : essays in honor of Samuel Rubenson / / edited by Susan Ashbrook Harvey [and three others].

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Wisdom on the Move explores the complexity and flexibility of wisdom traditions in Late Antiquity and beyond. This book studies how sayings, maxims and expressions of spiritual insight travelled across linguistic and cultural borders, between different religions and milieus, and how this multicultur...

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Superior document:Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; Volume 161
TeilnehmendeR:
Rubenson, Samuel,
Harvey, Susan Ashbrook,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; Volume 161.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • The Editors' Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Wisdom on the Move: An Introduction / Thomas Arentzen , Henrik Rydell Johnsén and Andreas Westergren
  • Wisdom in Transmission: Egypt and Palestine
  • Wisdom in Fragments: The Earliest Manuscript of the First Greek Life of St Pachomius / Peter Toth
  • Producing Pachomius: The Role of Lower Egypt in the Creation, Reception, and Adaptation of the Pachomian Vita Tradition / James E. Goehring
  • The Wisdom of the Fathers: The Use of the Apophthegmata in the Correspondence of Barsanuphius and John of Gaza / Lorenzo Perrone
  • Wisdom in Translation: Apophthegmata in New Languages
  • The Unmentionable Apophthegm: An Overview of the Pagan Greek Tradition / Denis M. Searby
  • Between East and West: Cassian the Roman in Greek and Latin / Britt Dahlman
  • The Apophthegmata Patrum in the Slavonic Context: A Case Study of Textual Doublets / Karine Åkerman Sarkisian
  • The Armenian Transmission of the Apophthegmata Patrum / Anahit Avagyan
  • The Monk as Storyteller? On the Transmission of the Apophthegmata Patrum among Muslim Ascetics in Basra / Ute Pietruschka
  • Wisdom in Transition: Hellenic, Jewish, Christian and Islamic Worlds
  • "Wise Elders" and "Nursing Infants": Wisdom Extended to the Gentiles in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies / Karin Hedner Zetterholm
  • Training the Women's Choir: Ascetic Practice and Liturgical Education in Late Antique Syriac Christianity / Susan Ashbrook Harvey
  • Universal Wisdom in Defence of the Particular: Medieval Jewish and Christian Usage of Biblical Wisdom in Arabic Treatises / Miriam L. Hjälm
  • Rubenson on the Move: A Biographical Journey / Thomas Arentzen , Henrik Rydell Johnsén and Andreas Westergren
  • Back Matter
  • List of Publications by Samuel Rubenson
  • Index.

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