Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism : Studies in Honor of Alexander Golitzin /

Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism : Studies in Honor of Alexander Golitzin /

The essays collected in Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism intend to honor Alexander Golitzin, a scholar known for his keen attention to the Jewish matrix of Eastern Orthodox spirituality. Following Golitzin's insights, this Festschrift explores influences of Jewish apocalypticism and...

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Other Authors: Orlov, Andrei A. (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements ; 160.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004407367.

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Orthodox Eastern Church > Doctrines.
Mysticism > Judaism.
Mysticism > Orthodox Eastern Church.

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Bibliography of the Works of Alexander Golitzin
  • Introduction /
  • Andrei A. Orlov
  • Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism and Mysticism
  • Traumatic Mysteries: Pathways of Mysticism among the Early Christians /
  • April D. DeConick
  • The Importance of the Parables of 1 Enoch for Understanding the Son of Man in the Four Gospels /
  • Charles Gieschen
  • Driven Away with a Stick: The Femininity of the Godhead in y. Ber. 12d, the Emergence of Rabbinic Modalist Orthodoxy, and the Christian Binitarian Complex /
  • Silviu N. Bunta
  • The Nativity of Ben Sira Reconsidered /
  • James R. Russell
  • Theophany and Transformation
  • Historical Memory and the Eschatological Vision of God's Glory in Irenaeus /
  • Khaled Anatolios
  • Flesh Invested with the Paternal Light: St Irenaeus on the Transfiguration of the Body /
  • John Behr
  • Flesh and Fire: Incarnation and Deification in Origen of Alexandria /
  • Charles M. Stang
  • St John Chrysostom in the West /
  • Marcus Plested
  • Divine Light and Salvific Illumination in St. Symeon the New Theologian's Hymns of Divine Eros /
  • John A. McGuckin
  • Jewish Temple and Christian Liturgy
  • Leviathan's Knot: The High Priest's Sash as a Cosmological Symbol /
  • Andrei A. Orlov
  • Moses as the First Priest-Gnostikos in the Works of Evagrius of Pontus /
  • Robin Darling Young
  • Holy Sound: Preaching as Divine Song in Late Antique Syriac Tradition /
  • Susan Ashbrook Harvey
  • The Lord Himself, One Lord, One Power: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Isaiah 63:9 and Daniel 7:13 /
  • Bogdan G. Bucur
  • Pseudo-Dionysius, Plato, and Proclus
  • Revisiting the Christian Platonism of Pseudo-Dionysius /
  • István Perczel
  • Individual and Liturgical Piety in Dionysius the Areopagite /
  • Andrew Louth
  • Ps.-Ps.-Dionysius on the Dormition of the Virgin Mary: The Armenian Letter of Dionysius to Titus /
  • Stephen J. Shoemaker
  • The "Platonic" Character of Gregory of Nyssa's Psychology: The Old Canon /
  • Michel René Barnes
  • Charioteer and Helmsman: Some Distant Echoes of Plato's Phaedrus in Syriac Literature /
  • Sebastian Brock
  • Back Matter
  • Indexes.