Wisdom on the Move: Late Antique Traditions in Multicultural Conversation. Essays in Honor of Samuel Rubenson

‎Contents......Page 7
‎The Editors’ Preface......Page 9
‎Abbreviations......Page 10
‎Notes on Contributors......Page 12
‎Wisdom on the Move: An Introduction (Arentzen, Johnsén and Westergren)......Page 17
‎Part 1. Wisdom in Transmission: Egypt and Palestine......Page 27
‎Chapter 1. Wisdom in Fragments: The Earliest Manuscript of the First Greek Life of St Pachomius (Toth)......Page 29
‎Chapter 2. Producing Pachomius: The Role of Lower Egypt in the Creation, Reception, and Adaptation of the Pachomian Vita Tradition (Goehring)......Page 51
‎Chapter 3. The Wisdom of the Fathers: The Use of the Apophthegmata in the Correspondence of Barsanuphius and John of Gaza (Perrone)......Page 70
‎Part 2. Wisdom in Translation: Apophthegmata in New Languages......Page 89
‎Chapter 4. The Unmentionable Apophthegm: An Overview of the Pagan Greek Tradition (Searby)......Page 91
‎Chapter 5. Between East and West: Cassian the Roman in Greek and Latin (Dahlman)......Page 113
‎Chapter 6. The Apophthegmata Patrum in the Slavonic Context: A Case Study of Textual Doublets (Sarkisian)......Page 135
‎Chapter 7. The Armenian Transmission of the Apophthegmata Patrum (Avagyan)......Page 163
‎Chapter 8. The Monk as Storyteller? On the Transmission of the Apophthegmata Patrum among Muslim Ascetics in Basra (Pietruschka)......Page 182
‎Part 3. Wisdom in Transition: Hellenic, Jewish, Christian and Islamic Worlds......Page 201
‎Chapter 9. “Wise Elders” and “Nursing Infants”: Wisdom Extended to the Gentiles in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies (Zetterholm)......Page 203
‎Chapter 10. Training the Women’s Choir: Ascetic Practice and Liturgical Education in Late Antique Syriac Christianity (Harvey)......Page 219
‎Chapter 11. Universal Wisdom in Defence of the Particular: Medieval Jewish and Christian Usage of Biblical Wisdom in Arabic Treatises (Hjälm)......Page 240
‎Rubenson on the Move: A Biographical Journey (Arentzen, Johnsén and Westergren)......Page 263
‎List of Publications by Samuel Rubenson......Page 267
‎Index......Page 276