Syrians and the Others: Cultures of the Christian Orient in the Middle Ages

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This volume contains the first editions of a number of works of Syrian authors (in Syriac and Arabic) including two excerpts from John bar Penkaye's "Ktaba de-resh melle", an excerpt from "The Blessed Compendium" of Jirjis al-Makin ibn al-Amid, an excerpt from the "Kitab al-Majdal", and hymns from the "Warda" collection, as well as a publication of a series of Coptic prayers for travellers. It also contains a discussion of the letters of Nicetas Stethatos available only in Georgian. Other contributions deal with the hagiography (Byzantine, Old Russian, and Syrian, with a special attention to the so-called "verbal hagiography" which is an intermediary field between the written hagiography and the folklore) and the patrology (with a special attention to philosophical problems of Byzantine patristics). Some detailed book reviews discuss, among others, various problems of the late Byzantine and the 19th- and 20th-century Ethiopian and Russian theology. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Abbreviations Critical Editions The Origins of the Temporal World: the First mēʾmrā of the Ktābā d-rēš mellē of John Bar Penkāyē Zeus, Artemis, Apollo: John bar Penkāyē on Ancient Myths and Cults The Laments of the Philosophers over Alexander the Great according to The Blessed Compendium of al-Makīn ibn al-ʿAmīd “These stones shall be for a memorial”: A discussion of the abolition of circumcision in the Kitāb al-Mağdal The Wardā Hymnological Collection and Šlēmōn of Ahlāṭ (13th century) Litanies or Prayers for Travellers Hagiography Folkloric Hagiography and the Popular Cult of Saints: Formation of Beliefs and Plots Hagiographic Writings in the Old Believer Controversies over ‘the Suicidal Death’ at the End of the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Centuries (Peter Prokop’ev’s Message to Daniil Vikulin) Concerning the Dates of St. Makarios of Pelekete’s Life and the Dating of his Vita Did St. John, the Abbot of the ton Katharon Monastery, Join the Iconoclasts under Leo V the Armenian? Verbal Hagiography of Seraphim of Sarov Patrology Hierarchies of Beings in the Patristic Thought: Maximus the Confessor, John of Damascus, and the Palamites The Book of the Body of Christ: Jewish-Christian Mysticism of Letters and the Name of God as an Origin for the Christian Spiritual Exegesis A Chalcedonian Conundrum: the Singularity of the Hypostasis of Christ Notes on Georgian Translations of the Works of Nicetas Stethatos L’anthropologie apocryphe et le traité Περὶ Ἀρχῶν d’Origène Review Articles Providence and fate in the ancient philosophical tradition and in Greek patristics Notes on Mar Pinḥas: A “Nestorian” Foundation Legend; the Liturgy Implied; Polemics against Jewish Mysticism; an Early Christian Apology Used; Syrian Monasticism from Athens The Corpora of Old and Middle Russian Texts as an Advanced Tool for Exploring an Extinguished Language A new book on Old Russian demonology Deux livres sur Cassia de Constantinople Ahiqar, his Tale and the Vita Aesopi Reviews What Was the Question? The Inter-Byzantine Discussions about the Filioque, Nicephorus Blemmydes, and Gregory of Cyprus Прп. Максим Исповедник, Богословско-полемические сочинения (Opuscula Theologica et Polemica), пер. с древнегреч. Д. А. ЧЕРНОГЛАЗОВА и А. М. ШУФРИНА; научн. ред., предисл. и комм. Г. И. БЕНЕВИЧА [St Maximus the Confessor, Opuscula Theologica et Polemica, Russian tr. by D. A. Chernoglazov and A. M. Choufrine; ed., intr. and comm. by G. I. Benevich] Warren T. Woodfin, The Embodied Icon. Liturgical Vestments and Sacramental Power in Byzantium Two Books on Fr Antonii (Anthony) Bulatovich (1870–1919) and the Imiaslavie (Onomatodoxy, Name-Glorifying) The Monks and Their Reading A Lonely Church as a Symbol of Faith and Power Syriaca et Varia Orientalia Das russisch-deutsche Seminar „Simon Lüdwigowitsch Frank: der deutsche Kontext der russischen Philosophie“