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Flourishing from the inland cities of Syria down through the Tigris
and Euphrates valley, Syriac speakers in late antiquity created a
new and often brilliant expression of Christian culture. Although
the origins of their traditions are notoriously difficult to trace,
authors of fourth-century Syrian communities achieved sophisticated
forms of expression whose content little resembles the Christian
culture of their neighbours to the west. From the fourth through
the seventh centuries they achieved religious works of great beauty
and complexity. Increasing interest in Syriac Christianity has
prompted recent translations and studies. To Train His Soul in
Books explores numerous aspects of this rich religious culture,
extending previous lines of scholarly investigation and
demonstrating the activity of Syriac-speaking scribes and
translators busy assembling books for the training of biblical
interpreters, ascetics, and learned clergy. Befitting an intensely
literary culture, it begins with the development of Syriac
poetry--the genre beloved by Ephrem and other, anonymous authors.
It considers the long tradition of Aramaic and Syriac words for the
chronic condition of sin, and explores the dimensions of the
immense work of Syriac translators with a study of the Syriac life
of Athanasius. Essays consider the activity of learned ascetics,
with a proposal of the likely monastic origin of the Apocalypse of
Daniel; the goal and concept of renunciation; and the changes rung
by Syriac-speaking ascetics on the daily reality of housekeeping.
Also included in the volume are two essays on the influence of
Syriac literary culture on Greek traditions, and in turn ascetic
life. Finally, an original poem in Syriac demonstrates the
continuing vitality of this culture, both in its homeland and in
the Diaspora. These essays seek to extend and honour the work of
renowned scholar and pillar of the Department of Semitic and
Egyptian Languages at the Catholic University of America, Sidney H.
Griffith.
Evagrius of Pontus (ca. 345-399) was a Greek-speaking monastic
thinker and Christian theologian whose works formed the basis for
much later reflection on monastic practice and thought in the
Christian Near East, in Byzantium, and in the Latin West. His
innovative collections of short chapters meant for meditation,
scriptural commentaries in the form of scholia, extended
discourses, and letters were widely translated and copied.
Condemned posthumously by two ecumenical councils as a heretic
along with Origen and Didymus of Alexandria, he was revered among
Christians to the east of the Byzantine Empire, in Syria and
Armenia, while only some of his writings endured in the Latin and
Greek churches. A student of the famed bishop-theologians Gregory
of Nazianzus and Basil of Caesarea, Evagrius left the service of
the urban church and settled in an Egyptian monastic compound. His
teachers were veteran monks schooled in the tradition of Clement of
Alexandria, Origen, and Anthony, and he enriched their legacy with
the experience of the desert and with insight drawn from the entire
Greek philosophical tradition, from Plato and Aristotle through
Iamblichus. Evagrius and His Legacy brings together essays by
eminent scholars who explore selected aspects of Evagrius's life
and times and address his far-flung and controversial but
long-lasting influence on Latin, Byzantine, and Syriac cultures in
antiquity and the Middle Ages. Touching on points relevant to
theology, philosophy, history, patristics, literary studies, and
manuscript studies, Evagrius and His Legacy is also intended to
catalyze further study of Evagrius within as large a context as
possible.
Evagrius of Pontus (ca. 345-399) was a Greek-speaking monastic
thinker and Christian theologian whose works formed the basis for
much later reflection on monastic practice and thought in the
Christian Near East, in Byzantium, and in the Latin West. His
innovative collections of short chapters meant for meditation,
scriptural commentaries in the form of scholia, extended
discourses, and letters were widely translated and copied.
Condemned posthumously by two ecumenical councils as a heretic
along with Origen and Didymus of Alexandria, he was revered among
Christians to the east of the Byzantine Empire, in Syria and
Armenia, while only some of his writings endured in the Latin and
Greek churches. A student of the famed bishop-theologians Gregory
of Nazianzus and Basil of Caesarea, Evagrius left the service of
the urban church and settled in an Egyptian monastic compound. His
teachers were veteran monks schooled in the tradition of Clement of
Alexandria, Origen, and Anthony, and he enriched their legacy with
the experience of the desert and with insight drawn from the entire
Greek philosophical tradition, from Plato and Aristotle through
Iamblichus. Evagrius and His Legacy brings together essays by
eminent scholars who explore selected aspects of Evagrius's life
and times and address his far-flung and controversial but
long-lasting influence on Latin, Byzantine, and Syriac cultures in
antiquity and the Middle Ages. Touching on points relevant to
theology, philosophy, history, patristics, literary studies, and
manuscript studies, Evagrius and His Legacy is also intended to
catalyze further study of Evagrius within as large a context as
possible.
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