Isaac of Antioch
Isaac of Antioch

Author: Adam H. Becker

Publisher: SBL Press

Published: 2024-10-11

Total Pages: 864

ISBN-13: 1628373415

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This volume offers a critical edition and annotated translation of twenty metrical homilies attributed to Isaac of Antioch, a late fifth-century CE Syriac poet. The works in this collection, the majority of which are examples of the Syriac rebuke genre, are aimed at the moral reformation of the Syrian Christian community. The introduction, which provides the first detailed study of the manuscript tradition of the corpus as a whole, identifies four different Isaacs whose writings were intermingled already in late antiquity and develops criteria for distinguishing among their works. Scholars and students of church history will find this a valuable resource for the study of Syriac poetry and homiletics, Christian ideas of moral reform, and late antique monastic and lay devotional culture.

Byzantine Media Subjects
Byzantine Media Subjects

Author: Glenn A. Peers

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2024-06-15

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1501775049

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Byzantine Media Subjects invites readers into a world replete with images—icons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places of worship, politics, and community. Glenn Peers asks readers to think themselves into a world where representation reigned and humans followed, and indeed were formed. Interrogating the fundamental role of representation in the making of the Byzantine human, Peers argues that Byzantine culture was (already) posthuman. The Byzantine experience reveals the extent to which media like icons, manuscripts, music, animals, and mirrors fundamentally determine humans. In the Byzantine world, representation as such was deeply persuasive, even coercive; it had the power to affect human relationships, produce conflict, and form self-perception. Media studies has made its subject the modern world, but this book argues for media having made historical subjects. Here, it is shown that media long ago also made Byzantine humans, defining them, molding them, mediating their relationship to time, to nature, to God, and to themselves.

The Origin and Religious Contents of The Psalter
The Origin and Religious Contents of The Psalter

Author: T. K. Cheyne

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2008-11-17

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13: 1606082574

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With An Introduction And Appendices. Eight Lectures Preached Before The University Of Oxford In The Year 1889 On The Foundation Of The Late Rev. John Bampton, Canon Of Salisbury.

The Making of the Medieval Middle East
The Making of the Medieval Middle East

Author: Jack Tannous

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-03-31

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 0691203156

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In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam. Largely agrarian and illiterate, Christians often called “the simple” outnumbered Muslims well into the era of the Crusades, and yet they have typically been invisible in our understanding of the Middle East's history