| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 263 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae : texts and studies of early Christian life and language ; volume 161 |
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Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 161.
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| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- "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 |
| Summary |
Wisdom on the Move explores religious wisdom traditions in Late Antiquity and beyond. It traces the movement of such texts across linguistic, religious and cultural borders. Particular attention is paid to the monastic Apophthegmata patrum |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Electronic resource, viewed: December 22, 2020 |
| Subject |
Wisdom literature -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History
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Wisdom -- Religious aspects -- Comparative studies
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Wisdom literature
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Wisdom -- Religious aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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Comparative studies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Festschriften.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Rubenson, Samuel, honouree
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Harvey, Susan Ashbrook, editor
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Arentzen, Thomas, 1976- editor.
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Johnsén, Henrik Rydell, editor.
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Westergren, Andreas, editor
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| ISBN |
9789004430747 |
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9004430741 |
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