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Contemplative reading is a spiritual practice developed by Christian monks in sixth- and seventh-century Mesopotamia.
The Library of Paradise tells the story of this Syriac tradition in three phases: its establishment as an ascetic practice, the articulation of its theology, and its maturation and spread.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1: Introduction: Framing Questions for the Study of Contemplative Reading in the Church of the East
- 2: Manuscripts without Readers? Perspectival Obstacles to the Study of Syriac Ascetic Reading
- 3: Was there a Syriac Lectio Divina? Models and Definitions for the Study of Contemplative Reading in the Church of the East
- 4: Contemplative Reading on the Banks of the Euphrates: The Establishment of a Tradition From Ephrem the Syrian to Abraham of Kashkar
- 5: "Cloak, Tunic, Book, Cell": Babai the Great's Articulation of an (East Syrian) Evagrian Theology of Ascetic Reading
- 6: Reading in the Library of Paradise, Dense with Every Kind of Fruit: The Harvest of East Syrian Contemplative Reading
- 7: Conclusions: Trajectories and Legacies of East Syrian Contemplative Reading
Über den Autor / die Autorin
David A. Michelson is Associate Professor of the History of Christianity at Vanderbilt University. He earned his PhD from Princeton University in 2007. His research is focused on Christianity in Late Antiquity with a particular interest in monasticism, Christianity in the Middle East, and the transmission of Syriac literary and manuscript culture. Michelson is the author of The Practical Christology of Philoxenos of Mabbug (OUP, 2014). He is also the co-editor of The Syriac Gazetteer and other digital research tools published by Syriaca.org.
Zusammenfassung
Contemplative reading is a spiritual practice developed by Christian monks in sixth- and seventh-century Mesopotamia. The Library of Paradise tells the story of this Syriac tradition in three phases: its establishment as an ascetic practice, the articulation of its theology, and its maturation and spread.
Zusatztext
The book tells one particular story of how a Syriac tradition of contemplative reading developed in Mesopotamia among the Christian monastic communities of the Church of the East in the sixth and seventh centuries.
