TY - BOOK AU - Heal,Kristian S. TI - Breaking the mind: new studies in the Syriac "Book of steps" T2 - CUA studies in early Christianity SN - 9780813221670 AV - BX177 .B743 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - The Catholic University of America Press KW - Liber Graduum KW - Christian life KW - Early works to 1800 KW - Monasticism and religious orders KW - History KW - Spirituality KW - Syriac literature KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=943614&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -