Wisdom on the Move : Essays in Honor of Samuel Rubenson.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (279 pages)
- Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements Series ; v.161 .
- Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements Series .
Intro -- Contents -- The Editors' Preface -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Wisdom on the Move: An Introduction (Arentzen, Johnsén and Westergren) -- Part 1. Wisdom in Transmission: Egypt and Palestine -- Chapter 1. Wisdom in Fragments: The Earliest Manuscript of the First Greek Life of St Pachomius (Toth) -- Chapter 2. Producing Pachomius: The Role of Lower Egypt in the Creation, Reception, and Adaptation of the Pachomian Vita Tradition (Goehring) -- Chapter 3. The Wisdom of the Fathers: The Use of the Apophthegmata in the Correspondence of Barsanuphius and John of Gaza (Perrone) -- Part 2. Wisdom in Translation: Apophthegmata in New Languages -- Chapter 4. The Unmentionable Apophthegm: An Overview of the Pagan Greek Tradition (Searby) -- Chapter 5. Between East and West: Cassian the Roman in Greek and Latin (Dahlman) -- Chapter 6. The Apophthegmata Patrum in the Slavonic Context: A Case Study of Textual Doublets (Sarkisian) -- Chapter 7. The Armenian Transmission of the Apophthegmata Patrum (Avagyan) -- Chapter 8. The Monk as Storyteller? On the Transmission of the Apophthegmata Patrum among Muslim Ascetics in Basra (Pietruschka) -- Part 3. Wisdom in Transition: Hellenic, Jewish, Christian and Islamic Worlds -- Chapter 9. "Wise Elders" and "Nursing Infants": Wisdom Extended to the Gentiles in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies (Zetterholm) -- Chapter 10. Training the Women's Choir: Ascetic Practice and Liturgical Education in Late Antique Syriac Christianity (Harvey) -- Chapter 11. Universal Wisdom in Defence of the Particular: Medieval Jewish and Christian Usage of Biblical Wisdom in Arabic Treatises (Hjälm) -- Rubenson on the Move: A Biographical Journey (Arentzen, Johnsén and Westergren) -- List of Publications by Samuel Rubenson -- Index.
Wisdom on the Move explores religious wisdom traditions in Late Antiquity and beyond. It traces the movement of such texts across linguistic, religious and cultural borders. Particular attention is paid to the monastic Apophthegmata patrum.