Ethiopic ‘Man of God’: Notes on the Syriac Influences on the Early Ethiopic Hagiography

Ethiopic ‘Man of God’: Notes on the Syriac Influences on the Early Ethiopic HagiographyВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия III: ФилологияSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/45SSWCHV/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Alexej V.MuravjevEthiopic ‘Man of God’: Notes on the Syriac Influences on the Early Ethiopic Hagiographyhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/45SSWCHVhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/45SSWCHVhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/45SSWCHVВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия III: Филология5 [45]201547-60The Second Evangelisation of the Axumite kingdom was operated by Syrian monks coming from Roman Empire. They brought to Axum some important practices from their original places. These ensured their missionary success but they also introduced some novelties into social practices of local Christians. One of these practices was the name change as a consequence of ascetic behavior. Syriac ascetics either rejected their names of took upon themselves new Christian names like Man of God, Man of Christ, Minister of Christ. Some of these rejection cases are well known from the Syriac monastic tradition (e. g. Alexius), other did not reject the name but showed themselves reluctant to accept old names (like Archelides). In Axum Za-Mikael Arägawi and Ну-Mata Libanos were good examples of the implementation of these practices. In doing that Ethiopic ascetic of Syriac background tried to re-establish the society they were living in on new evangelical cornerstone — the new world should reject the old one. Muravjev, Alexej V. “Ethiopic ‘Man of God’: Notes on the Syriac Influences on the Early Ethiopic Hagiography.” Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия III: Филология 5 [45] (2015): 47–60. Alexej V. Muravjev, Ethiopic ‘Man of God’: Notes on the Syriac Influences on the Early Ethiopic Hagiography, Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия III: Филология 5 [45] (2015): 47–60.IV-VII CESyriac influence [Ethiopia]asceticismhagiographymonasticismonomastics