The Heirs of Theodore

Aḥob of Qatar and the Development of the East Syriac Exegetical Tradition
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53931-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 936 g

Reihe: Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity

Autoren/Hrsg.

M Stadel, Seth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Sigla, Abbreviations, and Conventions

Introduction

1 The East Syriac Exegetical Tradition

2 Schools and Centers of East Syriac Exegesis

3 Christianity in Beth Qa?raye

4 Overview of Chapters

1 A?ob of Qatar

1.1 A?ob of Qatar’s Surviving Biographical Data

1.2 Conclusion

2 A?ob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works

2.1 A?ob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works in the Syriac Manuscript Tradition

2.2 A?ob of Qatar’s Exegetical Works

2.3 Conclusion

3 A?ob of Qatar and the East Syriac Exegetical Tradition (up to ca. 850)

3.1 The Use of A?ob of Qatar’s Cause of the Psalms in Nathniel of Shirzor’s Cause of the Psalms

3.2 The Use of A?ob of Qatar’s Exegesis in the Commentary on Genesis-Exodus 9:32

3.3 The Use of A?ob of Qatar’s Exegesis in Theodore bar Koni’s Scholion

3.4 The Use of A?ob of Qatar’s Exegesis in the Den?a-Grigor Commentary

3.5 Conclusion

4 A?ob of Qatar and the East Syriac Exegetical Tradition (ca. 850–1439/1440)

4.1 The Use of A?ob of Qatar’s Exegesis in Isho?dad of Merv’s Old Testament Exegesis

4.2 The Use of A?ob of Qatar’s Exegesis in the Anonymous Commentary

4.3 The Use of A?ob of Qatar’s Exegesis in ?asan bar Bahlul’s Lexicon

4.4 The Use of A?ob of Qatar’s Exegesis in Isaac Shbadnaya’s Prose Commentary on His Poem on God’s Governance from ‘In the Beginning’ until Eternity

4.5 Conclusion

5 The Distinctiveness of A?ob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works

5.1 The Original Form of A?ob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works

5.2 The Original Purpose of A?ob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works

5.3 The Peshitta Old Testament of A?ob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works

5.4 The Sources of A?ob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works

5.5 The Christology of A?ob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works

5.6 The Polemics of A?ob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works

5.7 The Eschatology of A?ob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works

5.8 The Exegetical Distinctiveness of A?ob of Qatar’s Old Testament Exegetical Works

5.9 Conclusion

General Conclusion

Appendix. An Edition of the Introduction and Select Parts of Thirteen Psalms from the Den?a-Grigor Commentary

Bibliography

Index of Biblical References

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Seth M. Stadel (D.Phil. 2022, University of Oxford) is a Research Associate on the ERC-funded DoSSE project in the School of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester. He has published several studies on the late antique and early medieval Syriac exegetical tradition and the reception of the Psalms in Christian theology.