Fear of God and the beginning of wisdom : the School of Nisibis and Christian scholastic culture in late antique Mesopotamia /

Fear of God and the beginning of wisdom : the School of Nisibis and Christian scholastic culture in late antique Mesopotamia /

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Main Author: Becker, Adam H., 1972- (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.

Series: Divinations.

Subjects:

School of Nisibis.
Iraq > Church history.

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Call Number: BR1105 .B43 2006

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Divine pedagogy and the transmission of the knowledge of God : the discursive background of the school movement 2. The school of the Persians (part 1) : rereading the sources 3. The school of the Persians (part 2) : from ethnic circle to theological school 4. The School of Nisibis 5. The scholastic genre : the cause of the foundation of the schools 6. The reception of Theodore of Mopsuestia in the School of Nisibis 7. Spelling God's name with the letters of creation : the use of Neoplatonic Aristotle in the Cause 8. A typology of East-Syrian schools 9. The monastic context of the East-Syrian school movement Conclusion : study as ritual in the Church of the East.