Research Catalog

Title

The ladder of prayer and the ship of stirrings : the praying self in late antique east Syrian Christianity / by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony.

Author

Bitton-Ashkelony, Bruria

Publication

• Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

x, 270 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"Doubts about sacrifices, prayers, fate, and providence in the second- to fifth-century Mediterranean world produced new concepts of individual prayer for Christians and non-Christians alike. The Ladder of Prayer and the Ship of Stirrings explores the discourse on the praying self as an ascetic way of life, as an aspect of interiority, and as a path to the divine in Late Antique Eastern Christianity. It deals with the transposition of Greek ascetic literature -- mainly the writings of Evagrius Ponticus, Abba Isaiah, Mark the Monk, and the Apophthegmata patrum -- into East Syrian thought, and its assimilation with indigenous features. Specifically, the book probes the emergence of different sorts of prayer as a pivotal part of the profound religious shifts and cultural developments that unfolded in Late Antique Eastern Christianities. The chronological scope of this study ranges from the second- to fifth-century cultural world of sophists and philosophers, Iamblicus, Porphyry and Proclus, up to the East Syrian mystical authors in the fifth-eighth centuries, among them John of Apamea, Isaac of Nineveh, Dadisho' Qatraya, Shem'on d-Taybutheh, John of Dalyatha, and Joseph Hazzaya. The book presents how these figures incorporated this literary legacy into their teachings and melded it with indigenous Syriac spirituality."--

Series Statement

Late Antique History and Religion ; volume 22

Uniform Title

Late antique history and religion ; 22.

Alternative Title

Praying self in late antique east Syrian Christianity

Subjects

• Self > Religious aspects
• Self > Religious aspects > History > To 1500
• Prayer > Oriental Orthodox Churches
• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Prayer > Orthodox Eastern Church
• Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
• Syrian churches > Doctrines > History
• Church history > Primitive and early church
• Christian literature, Early > Syriac authors > History and criticism
• Fathers of the church, Syriac
• To 1500
• Syriac Christians > Religious life

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-253) and indexes.

Contents

Doubts and Changes: Toward a New Discourse on Prayer in Late Antiquity -- 'For God is Silence and in Silence is He Sung': John of Apamea on Silent Prayer -- From Evagrius Ponticus' Pure Prayer to Isaac of Nineveh's Non-Prayer -- Dadisho' Qaṭraya: Scrutinizing the Self, Scrutinizing the Scriptures -- Shem'on d-Ṭaybutheh: 'Prayer in a Unifi ed Manner' and the Somatic Turn -- John of Dalyatha: Hidden Worship and Vanishing of the Self -- Joseph Hazzaya on the Ladder of Prayer, the Ship of Stirrings and the Helmsman of the Boat.

Call Number

JFE 20-443

ISBN

• 9789042939189
• 9042939184

OCLC

1117535300

Author

Bitton-Ashkelony, Bruria, author.

Title

The ladder of prayer and the ship of stirrings : the praying self in late antique east Syrian Christianity / by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony.

Publisher

Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Late Antique History and Religion ; volume 22

Late antique history and religion ; 22.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-253) and indexes.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Research Call Number

JFE 20-443