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ISBN: 9780199997671 9780197744130 Year: 2024 Publisher: New York, NY Oxford University Press
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"This tripartite book is the best-known and most important book by the ascetic philosopher and teacher Evagrius of Pontus. Among the writers of his age, Evagrius stands out for his short, puzzling, and absorbing aphorisms, which provide sharp insight into philosophy, Scripture, and observation of the natural world. The first part of the trilogy, the Praktikos (The Practiced One), provides a diagnosis and treatment of the eight temptations. The second, Gnostikos (The Knower), explains how someone who has mastered the body and mental delusions should teach others. The third, longest, and most controversial part, the Kephalaia gnostika (Gnostic Chapters), ranges broadly over the origin of the universe, the nature of rational beings, and the hidden symbols of Scripture. The Trilogy, arguably the magnum opus of Evagrius, is highly significant. The Praktikos was a foundational text for monastic asceticism, and was the basis for the later Seven Deadly Sins tradition. The Kephalaia gnostika was responsible for Evagrius's condemnation as a heretic in the sixth century. As a result, the writing does not survive intact in the original Greek, and must be restored from ancient translations. The present work, the first time since antiquity that the Trilogy has been presented as a complete whole, provides a fresh comprehensive English translation of all three works, in all their known ancient versions, both Greek and Syriac. Detailed explanatory notes provide the reader with the resources needed to think about the ancient text, which is often intentionally puzzling. Cross-references are provided to Scripture, to ancient literature, and to Evagrius's other writings. Comments on the translation techniques of the Syriac translators provide insight into the versions that were read by Eastern Christians"--
Theology, Doctrinal --- Gnosticism --- Christian literature, Early --- Evagrius,
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ISBN: 9789004523845 9789004549227 9004523847 Year: 2024 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,
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"The main purpose of this dictionary is twofold. On the one hand, it provides the scholar of African studies with a tool to identify the possible Portuguese origin of terms present in African languages and, on the other, it offers those who are interested in Portuguese culture an overview of the presence of its lexicon in African languages. No doubt the Portuguese were among the first Europeans to explore the world outside of Europe, and as such they were also the first to introduce that world to European concepts and words.This book is the result of a long and detailed work on texts in African languages, as also shown by the rich bibliography in the dictionary"--
Christian literature, Early. --- Littérature chrétienne primitive. --- Herméneutique --- Paul, --- Paul --- Bible. --- Bible --- Hermeneutics. --- Critique et exégèse. --- Church history --- Theology --- Criticism and interpretation --- Hermeneutics --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- African languages --- African languages. --- Language and languages --- Portuguese language --- Foreign elements --- Portuguese --- Portuguese. --- Foreign words and phrases --- Foreign words and phrases. --- Influence on foreign languages --- Influence on foreign languages. --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Sub-Saharan Africa. --- Languages
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