Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism

Studies in Honor of Alexander Golitzin
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42952-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 160, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 730 g

Reihe: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements

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 mysticism on certain early and late Christian authors, including Irenaeus, Origen, Evagrius of Pontus, Pseudo-Dionysius, and Symeon the New Theologian. Special attention is given to Jewish theophanic traditions regarding the beatific vision of the divine Glory (Kavod), which profoundly shaped Eastern Christian theology and liturgy. This volume demonstrates that recent developments in the study of apocalyptic literature, the Qumran Scrolls, Gnosticism, and later Jewish mysticism throw new and welcome light on the sources and continuities of Orthodox theology, liturgy, and spirituality

Autoren/Hrsg.

A Orlov, Andrei

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography of the Works of Alexander Golitzin

Compiled by Bogdan G. Bucur

Introduction

Andrei A. Orlov

Part 1 Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism and Mysticism

1 Traumatic Mysteries: Pathways of Mysticism among the Early Christians

April D. DeConick

2 The Importance of the Parables of 1 Enoch for Understanding the Son of Man in the Four Gospels

Charles Gieschen

3 Driven Away with a Stick: the Femininity of the Godhead in y. Ber. 9:1, 12d, the Emergence of Rabbinic Modalist Orthodoxy, and the Christian Binitarian Complex

Silviu N. Bunta

4 The Nativity of Ben Sira Reconsidered

James R. Russell

Part 2 Theophany and Transformation

5 Historical Memory and the Eschatological Vision of God’s Glory in Irenaeus

Khaled Anatolios

6 Flesh Invested with the Paternal Light: St Irenaeus on the Transfiguration of the Body

John Behr

7 Flesh and Fire: Incarnation and Deification in Origen of Alexandria

Charles M. Stang

8 St John Chrysostom in the West

Marcus Plested

9 Divine Light and Salvific Illumination in St. Symeon the New Theologian’s Hymns of Divine Eros

John A. McGuckin

Part 3 Jewish Temple and Christian Liturgy

10 Leviathan’s Knot: the High Priest’s Sash as a Cosmological Symbol

Andrei A. Orlov

11 Moses as the First Priest-Gnostikos in the Works of Evagrius of Pontus

Robin Darling Young

12 Holy Sound: Preaching as Divine Song in Late Antique Syriac Tradition

Susan Ashbrook Harvey

13 The Lord Himself, One Lord, One Power: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Isaiah 63:9 and Daniel 7:13

Bogdan G. Bucur

Part 4 Pseudo-Dionysius, Plato, and Proclus

14 Revisiting the Christian Platonism of Pseudo-Dionysius

István Perczel

15 Individual and Liturgical Piety in Dionysius the Areopagite

Andrew Louth

16 Ps.-Dionysius on the Dormition of the Virgin Mary: the Armenian Letter of Dionysius to Titus

Stephen J. Shoemaker

17 The “Platonic” Character of Gregory of Nyssa’s Psychology: the Old Canon

Michel René Barnes

18 Charioteer and Helmsman: Some Distant Echoes of Plato’s Phaedrus in Syriac Literature

Sebastian Brock

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrei A. Orlov is Professor of Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity at Marquette University, USA. He has written extensively on Jewish apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism, including The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (Mohr Siebeck, 2005), Heavenly Priesthood in the Apocalypse of Abraham (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and The Glory of the Invisible God: Two Powers in Heaven Traditions and Early Christology (Bloomsbury, 2019).