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"Chapters gathered in Syriac Hagiography: Texts and Beyond explore a wide range of Syriac hagiographical works, while following two complementary methodological approaches, i.e. literary and cultic, or formal and functional. Grouped into three main sections, these contributions reflect three interrelated ways in which we can read Syriac hagiography and further grasp its characteristics: "Texts as Literature" seeks to unfold the mechanisms of their literary composition; "Saints Textualized" offers a different perspective on the role played by hagiographical texts in the invention and/or maintenance of the cult of a particular saint or group of saints; "Beyond the Texts" presents cases in which the historical reality behind the nexus of hagiographical texts and veneration of saints can be observed in greater details"--

235.3 <394> --- 235.3 <394> Hagiografie--Syrië --- 235.3 <394> Hagiographie--Syrië --- Hagiografie--Syrië --- Hagiographie--Syrië --- Syriac Christian saints --- Christian hagiography --- Biography --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Syriac Christian saints - Biography - History and criticism. --- Christian hagiography - History. --- Hagiographie syriaque

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Andrew Palmer’s vivid translation of the Syriac Life of Barsauma opens a fascinating window onto the ancient Middle East, seen through the life and actions of one of its most dramatic and ambiguous characters: the monk Barsauma, ascetic hero to some, religious terrorist to others. The Life takes us into the eye of the storm that raged around Christian attempts to define the nature of Christ in the great council of Chalcedon, the effects of which was to split the growing Church irrevocably, with the Oriental Orthodox on one side, Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic on the other. Hitherto known only in extracts, this ancient text is finally brought to readers in its entirety, casting dramatic new light on the relations between pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Holy Land and on the role of religious violence, real or imagined, in the mental world of a Middle East as shot through with conflict as it is, alas, today.

Syriac Christian saints --- 235.3 <394> --- 281.81 --- Syriac saints, Christian --- Christian saints --- 281.81 Chaldeeuwse Kerk: Oost-Syrische, Assyrische, Perzische christenen --- Chaldeeuwse Kerk: Oost-Syrische, Assyrische, Perzische christenen --- 235.3 <394> Hagiografie--Syrië --- 235.3 <394> Hagiographie--Syrië --- Hagiografie--Syrië --- Hagiographie--Syrië --- Barṣāwmā, --- Barsauma, --- Barsaumas, --- Barsawmo, --- Barsumas, --- Barsauma ep. Nisibenus nestorianus --- acts of chalcedon. --- ancient middle east. --- asceticism. --- barsauma. --- bible. --- biography. --- christianity. --- church sects. --- churches. --- cloister. --- council of chalcedon. --- early church. --- greek orthodox. --- holy land. --- holy places. --- life of barsauma. --- middle east. --- monk. --- nature of christ. --- nestorius. --- nonfiction. --- oriental orthodox. --- places of worship. --- profile. --- religion. --- religious conflict. --- religious leaders. --- religious martyr. --- religious men. --- religious terrorism. --- religious violence. --- roman catholicism. --- saint flavian. --- syria. --- terrorism.

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History as a science --- Christian spirituality --- John of Ephesus --- Asceticism --- Christian saints --- Jacobites (Syrian Christians) --- Monophysites --- Ascétisme --- Saints chrétiens --- History --- Biography --- Histoire --- Biographies --- John, --- Christian hagiography --- Cult --- History of doctrines --- History and criticism. --- Biography. --- History. --- Christianity and culture --- Syriac Christian saints --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- 281.83 --- 235.3 <394> --- -Christian saints --- -Jacobites (Syrian Christians) --- -Monophysites --- -Christian heresies --- Oriental Orthodox churches --- Syrian Orthodox --- Syriac Christians --- Saints --- Canonization --- Ascetical theology --- Contempt of the world --- Theology, Ascetical --- Christian life --- Ethics --- Jacobitische monofysitische Kerk --- Hagiografie--Syrië --- -Cult --- -History of doctrines --- -Congresses --- -History and criticism --- John Bishop of Ephesus --- 276 =75 JOANNES EPHESINUS --- Griekse patrologie--JOANNES EPHESINUS --- -Biography --- -Jacobitische monofysitische Kerk --- -Griekse patrologie--JOANNES EPHESINUS --- 281.83 Jacobitische monofysitische Kerk --- -281.83 Jacobitische monofysitische Kerk --- Christian heresies --- Ascétisme --- Saints chrétiens --- Syriac saints, Christian --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Contextualization (Christian theology) --- Culture and Christianity --- Inculturation (Christian theology) --- Indigenization (Christian theology) --- Culture --- Christian saints - Cult - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500. --- Christian saints - Middle East - Biography - History and criticism. --- Jacobites (Syrian Christians) - Biography. --- Asceticism - History - Early church, ca 30-600 --- Christian hagiography - History - To 1500. --- Monophysites - Middle East - History.