The Wandering Holy Man
The Life of Barsauma, Christian Asceticism, and Religious Conflict in Late Antique Palestine
Barsauma was a fifth-century Syrian ascetic, archimandrite, and leader of monks, notorious for his extreme asceticism and violent anti-Jewish campaigns across the Holy Land. Although Barsauma was a powerful and revered figure in the Eastern church, modern scholarship has widely dismissed him as a thug of peripheral interest. Until now, only the most salacious bits of the Life of Barsauma-a fascinating collection of miracles that Barsauma undertook across the Near East-had been translated. This pioneering study includes the first full translation of the Life and a series of studies by scholars employing a range of methods to illuminate the te…
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Weitere Autoren: Menze, Volker (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-520-97295-7
- EAN: 9780520972957
- Produktnummer: 32649554
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 324 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'877 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Reihenbandnummer: 60
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