‘Exploring Finitude’: Weakness and Integrity in Isaac of Nineveh

‘Exploring Finitude’: Weakness and Integrity in Isaac of NinevehOrientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 309, Bibliothèque de Byzantion 28Syriaca.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/W76QA6UE/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.ValentinaDuca‘Exploring Finitude’: Weakness and Integrity in Isaac of Ninevehhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/W76QA6UEhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/W76QA6UEhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/W76QA6UELeuvenPeeters2023Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 309, Bibliothèque de Byzantion 28This book is the first exploration of an essential theme in the thought of the 7th c. East-Syriac solitary and mystic Isaac of Nineveh, that of creatural “weakness” (mihiluta), a term which, in Isaac, alludes to the ontological condition of exposure to limitation and suffering that characterizes all humans. Based on the analysis of Isaac’s edited and unedited writings in the original Syriac, the book sheds light on his understanding of creatural vulnerability and the phenomenology of the relationship with vulnerability that he outlines, with references to the authors who influenced him (Evagrius, the Syriac Pseudo-Macarian corpus, and others). The reader is thus introduced to Isaac’s view of human finitude which, if experienced and “inhabited”, can be taken on by the subject and disclose an experience of integrity. The solitary life, in this perspective, involves entering the mystery of suffering that marks every creatural life. Duca, Valentina. ‘Exploring Finitude’: Weakness and Integrity in Isaac of Nineveh. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 309, Bibliothèque de Byzantion 28. Leuven: Peeters, 2023. Valentina Duca, ‘Exploring Finitude’: Weakness and Integrity in Isaac of Nineveh, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 309, Bibliothèque de Byzantion 28 (Leuven: Peeters, 2023).Isaac of NinevehNestoriansVII CEVII-XVIII CEanthropologymysticismsuffering