Name: Basil of Caesarea. Questions of the Brothers: Syriac Text and English Translation
SKU: 57213363
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Author: Silvas, Anna M.
ISBN: 9789004252271

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Basil of Caesarea. Questions of the Brothers: Syriac Text and English Translation

Type

Physical Book

Author

Anna M. Silvas

Publisher

Brill

Pages

378

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.9x16.5x2.3 cm

Weight

0.70 kg.

ISBN13

9789004252271

Synopsis "Basil of Caesarea. Questions of the Brothers: Syriac Text and English Translation"

Basil of Caesarea (c. 328-378) was the great father of Christian monasticism in eastern Anatolia, whose influence spread into all the Greek, Latin and Syriac speaking churches. Basil's counsels for ascetics in community are collected in his Asketikon. The earliest version, the Small Asketikon, did not survive in the Greek, but only in a Latin translation (The Rule of Basil), and in a Syriac translation (The Questions of the Brothers). Silvas presents the first ever edition of the entire Syriac translation, drawn from five manuscripts, the oldest from the late 5th century. The introductory study shows how the Syriac translator was himself a warm-hearted spiritual father who made his own authorial contributions to the Questions of the Brothers.