Narsai

Narsai († ca. 500) war ein Gründungstheologe der Kirche des Ostens. Er verknüpfte auf kreative Weise seine einheimische syrische Tradition mit der Exegese und Theologie aus Antiochien. Diese bahnbrechende Sammlung wirft ein neues Licht auf diesen bedeutenden Denker der Spätantike.Aaron M. Butts: Narsai's Life and Work – Daniel Becerra: Exegesis, Askesis, and Identity: Narsai's Mēmrā on the Parable of the Ten Virgins – Adam H. Becker: Names in Fervent Water: Ritual and the Mediating Power of the Divine Name in Narsai's Mēmrē – Dmitrij F. Bumazhnov: Jewish-Christian Anti-Paulinism and Merkabah Mysticism around the Schools of Edessa and of Nisibis: Narsai's Polemics against Deniers of Biblical Studies in Context – Jeff W. Childers: In Search of Jesus: Performative Christology in Narsai's Mēmrē on Baptism – Philip Michael Forness: The Construction of Metrical Poetry in the Homilies of Narsai of Nisibis and Jacob of Serugh – Kelli Bryant Gibson: An Early Syriac Apologia Crucis Mēmrā 54 'On the Finding of the Holy Cross' – Kristian S. Heal: Narsai and the Scriptural Self – Robert A. Kitchen: The Ascetic Narsai: Ascetical and Monastic Practice and Theology in the Mēmrē of Narsai – Craig E. Morrison: The Faculty of Discernment in Narsai – Ellen Muehlberger: Extraordinary Conceptions: Insemination and Theories of Reproduction in Narsai's Thought – Eva M. Rodrigo Gómez: Painting Metaphors as a Means of Theological Expression in Narsai – Erin Galgay Walsh: »How the Weak Rib Prevailed!«: Eve and the Canaanite Woman in the Poetry of Narsai – J. Edward Walters: Where Soul Meets Body: Narsai's Depiction of the Soul-Body Relationship in Context