Šapyuta: An Essential Term to the Syro-Oriental Spirituality. Significations and Usage

Šapyuta: An Essential Term to the Syro-Oriental Spirituality. Significations and UsageLe MuséonSyriaca.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/ZHBY4FUS/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AgapieCorbuŠapyuta: An Essential Term to the Syro-Oriental Spirituality. Significations and Usagehttp://syriaca.org/cbss/ZHBY4FUShttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/ZHBY4FUShttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/ZHBY4FUSLe Muséon135:1-22022111-142The Syriac term <i>šapyuta </i>is very often encountered in diverse ascetical texts and contexts, being related to many aspects of Syriac spirituality. The present paper aims to research and to present the meanings that arise with various uses of it and to deepen the reader’s understanding of its semantic and theological content. Examining the texts of authors such as Ephrem, John the Solitary, Sahdona, Isaac of Nineveh, Dadišo Qatraya, Simon of Taybuteh, John of Dalyatha, Joseph Hazzaya and others, it becomes obvious that <i>šapyuta </i>is a key term for the Syriac monastic environment, a kind of knot where several plans of Syriac spiritual theology come together and connect with one another. As we analyze the connotations, and especially the contextual significations of the term šapyuta, this investigation is simultaneously an entry in the Syriac spirituality’s great themes: the primordial state of man and the fall, the stages of the spiritual life, the ascetical anthropology, the ascetical works etc. Corbu, Agapie. “Šapyuta: An Essential Term to the Syro-Oriental Spirituality. Significations and Usage.” Le Muséon 135:1-2 (2022): 111–42. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.2143/MUS.135.1.3290654. Agapie Corbu, Šapyuta: An Essential Term to the Syro-Oriental Spirituality. Significations and Usage, Le Muséon 135:1-2 (2022): 111–42, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.2143/MUS.135.1.3290654.IV-VII CENestoriansVII-XVIII CEasceticismmysticismspirituality