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Breaking the mind : new studies in the Syriac "Book of steps" / edited by Kristian S. Heal and Robert A. Kitchen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 350 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813221670
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BX177 .B743 2014
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Columba Stewart -- Kristian S. Heal and Robert A. Kitchen -- The Romano-Persian frontier and the context of the Book of steps / Geoffrey Greatrex -- Parallel paths : tracing Manichaean footprints along the Syriac Book of steps / Timothy Pettipiece -- The Book of steps on magic / Martien Parmentier -- A previously unknown reattributed fragment from Memra 16 of the Book of steps / Grigory Kessel -- A last disciple of the Apostles: the "Editor's preface, Rabbula's Rules, and the date of the Book of steps / Kyle Smith -- Biblical exegesis in the Syriac Book of steps: a preliminary survey / René Roux -- Did the author of the Book of steps understand Paul? / Matthias Westerhoff -- A broken mind: the path to knowledge in the Book of steps / J.W. Childers -- The perfect and perfection in the Book of steps / Pablo Argárate -- You are what you eat: dietary metaphors in the Syriac Book of steps / Kelli E. Bryant -- Falling from the path of perfection: sin in the Syriac Book of steps / Tera Stidham Harmon -- Disturbed sinners: in pursuit of sanctity in the Book of steps / Robert A. Kitchen -- Marriage and sexuality in the Book of steps: from encratism to orthodoxy / Sergey Minov -- "Hidden work" of the heart and spiritual progression in the Book of steps / Thomas Kollamparampil -- Reading the ascetic ideal into Genesis 1-3: hermeneutic strategies in the Book of steps Memra 21 / Aryeh Kofsky and Serge Ruzer -- Lowering in order to be raised, emptying in order to be filled: the ascetical system in the Book of steps / Jason Scully.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Columba Stewart -- Kristian S. Heal and Robert A. Kitchen -- The Romano-Persian frontier and the context of the Book of steps / Geoffrey Greatrex -- Parallel paths : tracing Manichaean footprints along the Syriac Book of steps / Timothy Pettipiece -- The Book of steps on magic / Martien Parmentier -- A previously unknown reattributed fragment from Memra 16 of the Book of steps / Grigory Kessel -- A last disciple of the Apostles: the "Editor's preface, Rabbula's Rules, and the date of the Book of steps / Kyle Smith -- Biblical exegesis in the Syriac Book of steps: a preliminary survey / René Roux -- Did the author of the Book of steps understand Paul? / Matthias Westerhoff -- A broken mind: the path to knowledge in the Book of steps / J.W. Childers -- The perfect and perfection in the Book of steps / Pablo Argárate -- You are what you eat: dietary metaphors in the Syriac Book of steps / Kelli E. Bryant -- Falling from the path of perfection: sin in the Syriac Book of steps / Tera Stidham Harmon -- Disturbed sinners: in pursuit of sanctity in the Book of steps / Robert A. Kitchen -- Marriage and sexuality in the Book of steps: from encratism to orthodoxy / Sergey Minov -- "Hidden work" of the heart and spiritual progression in the Book of steps / Thomas Kollamparampil -- Reading the ascetic ideal into Genesis 1-3: hermeneutic strategies in the Book of steps Memra 21 / Aryeh Kofsky and Serge Ruzer -- Lowering in order to be raised, emptying in order to be filled: the ascetical system in the Book of steps / Jason Scully.

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