Wisdom on the move : late antique traditions in multicultural conversation : essays in honor of Samuel Rubenson / edited by Susan Ashbrook Harvey [and 3 others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harvey, Susan Ashbrook, editor.

Rubenson, Samuel, honouree.

Series:

Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 161.

Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; volume 161

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wisdom literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Wisdom literature.

Wisdom--Religious aspects.

Apophthegmata Patrum.

Genre:

Comparative studies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xv, 263 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Summary:

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 multicultural process reshaped these sayings and anecdotes. 'Wisdom on the Move' takes the reader on a journey through late antique religious traditions, from manuscript fragments and folios via the monastic cradle of Egypt, across linguistic and cultural barriers, through Jewish and Biblical wisdom, monastic sayings, and Muslim interpretations. Particular attention is paid to the monastic 'Apophthegmata Patrum', arguably the most important genre of wisdom literature in the early Christian world.

Contents:

Wisdom on the move: an introduction / Thomas Arentzen, Henrik Rydell Johnsen and Adreas Westergren

Wisdom in fragments: the earliest manuscript of the first Greek Life of St Pachomius / Peter Toth

Producting Pachomius: the role of Lower Egypt in the creation, recption, 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 Akerman 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 Piertruschka

"Wise elders" and "Nursing infants"L wisdom extended to the Gentiles in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies /Karin Hedner Zetterholm

Training the women's choir: ascetic practice and liturgical eduation in late antique Syriac Christianity / Susan Ashbrook Harvey

Universal wisdom in defence of the particular: medieval Jewish and Christian usage of biblical wisdom in Arabi treatises / Miriam L. Hjalm

Rubenson on the move: a biographical journey / Thomas Arentzen, Herik Rydell Johnsen and Adreas Wesergren.

Notes:

List of publications by Samuel Rubenson (pages 251-259)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9004430695

9789004430693

OCLC:

1157699834