Dionysius Bar Ṣalībī Guardian of the Syriac Orthodox Tradition

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72670-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 37, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity

Dionysius bar Salibi, a prominent 12th-century Syriac Orthodox bishop and scholar, played a key role in shaping Syriac Christian theology during a period of significant political upheaval in the eastern Mediterranean. His vast intellectual contributions spanned all major ecclesiastical disciplines of his time, including numerous theological works and scriptural commentaries. This volume brings together nine scholarly essays that explore his writings, theological insights, and his active role in both interreligious and intra-Christian debates. By examining his legacy, these studies highlight how Bar Salibi both consolidated and reshaped Syriac traditions to address the challenges of his era. The volume offers a wide range of perspectives on his enduring influence, underlining the significance of his multi-faceted contributions to Syriac Christianity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jacobs, Bert

Teule, Herman

Verheyden, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 Between Collecting and Composing: Dionysius bar ?alibi’s Commentary on the Song of Songs Marion Pragt

2 Double Citations of the Peshitta and the Syro-Hexapla in Dionysius bar ?alibi’s Spiritual Commentary on Isaiah 1–12 Zhan Chen

3 Appraising Bar ?alibi’s Knowledge of Islam: Insights from a Neglected Response to the Charge of Biblical Falsification Bert Jacobs

4 Two Syriac Disputations against the Jews Attributed to Ephrem and John Chrysostom

Rediscovered Sources of Dionysius bar ?alibi’s Treatise against the Jews David G.K. Taylor

5 The Sign of the Cross as a Mark of Christian Faith: Rituals of Practical Orthodoxy in Dionysius bar ?alibi Catalin-Stefan Popa

6 Dionysius on Dionysius: Bar ?alibi’s Commentary on Dionysius the Areopagite Emiliano Fiori

7 Origenism and the Memory of Evagrius Ponticus during the Syriac Renaissance: Dionysius bar ?alibi’s Commentary on the Chapters on Knowledge Adrian C. Pirtea

8 Animals in the Writings of Dionysius bar ?alibi: First Soundings Jens O. Schmitt

9 The “Star of His Generation”: Dionysius bar ?alibi and the Later Tradition Herman G.B. Teule

Manuscript Index

Index of Persons

Über Autor(innen)

Bert Jacobs, Ph.D. (2021), University of Leuven, is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Louvain-la-Neuve. His publications focus on Christian-Muslim interactions in the early and medieval Islamic world.

Herman Teule, Ph.D. (1991), University of Leuven, is Professor Emeritus of Eastern Christianity at Radboud University Nijmegen and University of Leuven, has published extensively on the Syriac Renaissance, Latinizing tendencies among Syriac Christians, and the modern situation of Middle Eastern Christians.

Joseph Verheyden, Ph.D. (1987), University of Leuven, is Professor Emeritus of New Testament Studies at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the same university and was until 2023 the Director of the Louvain Centre for Eastern and Oriental Christianity (LOCEOC).