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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Adrian C.PirteaThe Syriac Fathershttp://syriaca.org/cbss/EFYPPKGEhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/EFYPPKGEhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/EFYPPKGEPaul L.GavrilyukAndrewHoferMatthewLeveringThe Oxford Handbook of DeificationNew YorkOxford University Press2024137-156This chapter presents Syriac Christian discussions on deification from the third to the seventh centuries. The first focus is on the earliest discourses, in the <i>Odes of Solomon</i>, the <i>Book of Steps</i>, and the writings of Ephrem the Syrian, Aphrahat, and John the Solitary. The Syriac translations of Greek Alexandrian and Antiochene Patristic works in fifth-century Edessa eventually gave birth to two distinct approaches to deification: the first, mainly influenced by Athanasius and Cyril of Alexandria, became prominent in the Syro-Orthodox (Miaphysite) Church and found mature expression in the writings of Jacob of Serugh and Philoxenos of Mabbug. The second was further developed at the School of Nisibis and prevailed in the (Dyophysite) Church of the East. The chapter also investigates the role of deification in Late Antique Syriac philosophical discourses, in the reception of Origen and Evagrius, and in seventh-century East Syriac mystical literature.
Pirtea, Adrian C. βThe Syriac Fathers.β In The Oxford Handbook of Deification, edited by Paul L. Gavrilyuk, Andrew Hofer, and Matthew Levering, 137β56. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Adrian C. Pirtea, The Syriac Fathers, in The Oxford Handbook of Deification, ed. Paul L. Gavrilyuk, Andrew Hofer, and Matthew Levering (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), 137β56.