Evagrius Ponticus, Letters: Armenian translation / edition, translation and comments by Robin Darling Young and Hovsep Karapetyan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evagrius, Ponticus, 345?-399, author.

Contributor:

Melania, the Elder, Saint, 341?-410?

Young, Robin Darling, editor, translator.

Karapetyan, Hovsep, editor, translator.

Series:

Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium ; v. 704.

Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium. Scriptores Armeniaci ; t. 33.

Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium ; vol. 704. Scriptores Armeniaci, 0070-041X ; tomus 33

Language:

Armenian

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Syriac

Subjects (All):

Evagrius, Ponticus, 345?-399. Correspondence.

Evagrius.

Melania, the Elder, Saint, 341?-410?--Correspondence.

Melania.

Fathers of the church, Greek--Correspondence.

Fathers of the church, Greek.

Christian literature, Armenian.

Melania, the Elder, Saint, 341?-410?.

Evagrius, Ponticus, 345?-399.

Genre:

personal correspondence.

Personal correspondence

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

vi, 246 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Letters: Armenian translation

Place of Publication:

Lovanii [Louvain, Belgium] : In Aedibus Peeters, 2022.

Language Note:

Evagrius's letters in Armenian, with English translations on facing pages; critical matter in English. The Armenian text was translated from Syriac and reshaped by an unknown scribe, most likely in the eleventh century.

Summary:

"This book is a critical edition of a medieval reworking of the fourth-century Letters and additional works of Evagrius of Pontus. The Medieval Armenian collection presents the letters not as letters by Evagrius alone but as a correspondence of Evagrius with his advisor Melania the Elder. Continually interwoven with Biblical texts, they show the monastic teacher as gnostikos guiding his female ascetic pupil. As a fourth-century philosopher and monastic, Evagrius wrote treatises, kephalaia and scholia discussing knowledge, biblical interpretation and ethics. A follower of the teachings of Clement and Origen, he strongly influenced the intellectual development of monastic life in the East and in the Latin-speaking West. Although some of his writings were destroyed in their original Greek following the condemnations of 543/553, many survived in Syriac and Armenian; in the medieval Armenian monastic setting, they influenced later monastic teachers including Gregory Narekats'i."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"This is the first critical edition and English translation of the letters of Evagrius preserved in Armenian"--Introduction, page 1.

"Editum consilio Universitatis Catholicae Americae et Universitatis Catholicae Lovaniensis"--Title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages V-VI) and indexes.

Contains:

Container of: Evagrius, Ponticus, 345?-399. Correspondence. English (Young and Karapetyan)

Container of: Evagrius, Ponticus, 345?-399. Correspondence. Armenian (Young and Karapetyan)

ISBN:

9789042947016

9042947012

OCLC:

1347072395

Publisher Number:

9789042947016