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The Life of Peter the Iberian by John Rufus records the ascetic
struggle of a fifth-century anti-Chalcedonian bishop of Mayyuma,
Palestine. Cornelia Horn presents a historical-critical study of
the only substantial anti-Chalcedonian witness to the history of
the conflict in Palestine and analyses the formative period of
fifth-century anti-Chalcedonian hierarchy, theology, and its
ascetic expression. Important themes are pilgrimage as an ascetic
ideal and asceticism as source of theological authority.
Archaeological data on many places in the Levant and textual
sources in Syriac, Coptic, Greek, Armenian, and Georgian are
examined. This book contributes to our understanding of the origins
of anti-Chalcedonian theology and the influence of asceticism on
its development, the Christian topography of the Levant, and the
history of the anti-Chalcedonian movement in Palestine.
Although Jesus called on his first followers to welcome children in
his name and to become like children, the lives of the first
Christian children have remained in the shadows. This book explores
the hidden lives of children at the origins of Christianity. It
draws on insights gained from comparisons of children's experiences
in ancient Judaism and the Graeco-Roman world. The authors also
engage a vast body of early Christian literature, extending from
the New Testament to sermons, letters, theological treatises,
poetry, pedagogical manuals, and historiography in Greek, Latin,
Syriac, and other languages of the early Christian world. The
guiding question of the book focuses on how Christianity changed
the lives of children in the ancient world. Some of the other
questions examined by the authors include: Did boys and girls both
receive a formal education? Were Christian children slaves? How did
they participate in manual labor? What kinds of games did children
play? How did children become a part of the Christian church? This
book breaks new ground in the study of early Christianity by
examining the challenges to Christian childhood in the first
centuries of the Church. The authors look at the violence
perpetrated against children, and they consider the effects and
opportunities arising from Christians' experiences of martyrdom and
from the increased Christian interest in various forms of
asceticism, including celibacy. The book brings into the open the
lives of early Christian children and throws much needed light on
what has been a largely neglected area of study in early
Christianity.
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