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Auteur(s) : Saint-Laurent, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon
Titre(s) : Missionary stories and the formation of the Syriac churches [Texte imprimé] / Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
Publication : Oakland (Calif.) : University of California Press, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-209 p.) : cartes ; 24 cm
Collection : The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
Transformation of the classical heritage, ISSN 1549-0440 ; 55
Lien à la collection : The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
The transformation of the classical heritage
Comprend : Introduction: missionary narratives in the Syriac tradition ; St. Thomas, missionary
apostle to India ; The teaching of Addai : founding a Christian city ; Mari as apostle
to the church of Persia ; John of Ephesus as hagiographer and missionary ; Legends
of Simeon of Beth Arsham, missionary to Persia ; Hagiographical portraits of Jacob
Baradaeus ; Ahoudemmeh among the Arabs.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 183-199. Notes bibliogr. en fin de volume. Index
"This book analyzes the hagiographic traditions of six missionary saints in the Syriac
heritage: Thomas, Addai, Mari, Simeon of Beth Arsham, Jacob Baradaeus, and Ahoudemmeh.
Saint-Laurent studies a body of legends about missionaries' voyages in the Syrian
Orient and illustrates their shared symbols and motifs. Revealing how these texts
encapsulate the concerns of the communities that wrote them, she draws attention to
the role of hagiography as a malleable genre that was well suited for the idealized
presentation of the beginnings of Christian communities. Hagiographers, through their
reworking of missionary themes, assert autonomy, orthodoxy, and apostolicity for their
individual civic and monastic communities, posturing themselves in relationship to
the rulers of their empire and other competing forms of Christianity. She argues that
missionary hagiography is an important and neglected source for understanding the
development of the East and West Syriac ecclesiastical bodies: the Syrian Orthodox
Church and the Church of the East. Many of these Syriac-speaking churches remain today
in the Middle East and India, with diaspora communities in Europe and North America.
While Saint-Laurent focuses on late antiquity in Missionary Stories and the Formation
of the Syriac Churches, her work opens up further study of the role of saints and
stories as symbolic links between ancient and modern traditions"--Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Saints syriaques -- Biographie
Missionnaires -- Biographie -- Moyen-Orient -- Jusqu'à 1500
Hagiographie chrétienne -- Jusqu'à 1500
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520284968 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0520284968 (cloth) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9780520960589 (erroné) (electronic). - ISBN 0520960580 (erroné) (electronic)
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