Joseph Hazzaya, on Providence: Text, Translation and Introduction

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32999-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Syriac, Band 8, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity

The East Syriac mystic Joseph Hazzaya (8th century AD) wrote On Providence in an attempt to derive universal salvation (apokatastasis) from Theodore of Mopsuestia, the highest theological authority in the East Syriac Church, and thus to defend himself from heresy accusations coming from that Church’s Primate, Catholicos Timothy I, as Nestor Kavvadas draws out in the introduction to this first edition and translation of the treatise. At the same time, in On Providence Joseph Hazzaya reacts, by way of a remodelled Elijah-Apocalypse, to a rising wave of conversions to Islam that was to change the face of his homeland Mesopotamia as well as of the entire Middle East; thus, On Providence is a valuable addition to the scanty sources on that epochal change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kavvadas, Nestor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliche Spiritualität, Christliche Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Introduction

1 Date and Place

2 On Providence and Its Statement: God’s Pedagogy as the Story Line of the Bible
2.1 Joseph’s Exegesis: Demonstrating God’s Care and Mercy
2.2 The Endpoint of God’s Providence: Apokatastasis

3 Joseph’s Apocalypse

4 On Providence and Exegetical Tradition: First Soundings

Bibliography
On the Text

Joseph Hazzaya’s On Providence: Text and Translation

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nestor Kavvadas, Dr. phil. (2007), University of Tübingen, is research fellow in Ancient Church History at that university. He has published monographs, translations and articles on Late Antiquity and Byzantium, including Isaak von Ninive und seine Kephalaia Gnostika (Brill, 2015).