Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom The School of Nisibis and Christian Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia
- Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press 2006
- 298p
includes index and biblioraphy
Divine Pedagogy and the Transmission of the Knowledge of God: The Discursive Background of the School Movement 22 The School of the Persians (Part 1): Rereading the Sources 41 The School of the Persians (Part 2): From Ethnic Circle to Theological School 62 The School of Nisibis 77 The Scholastic Genre: The Cause of the Foundation of the Schools 98 The Reception of Theodore of Mopsuestia in the School of Nisibis 113 Spelling God`s Name with the Letters of Creation: The Use of Neoplatonic Aristotle in the Cause 126 A Typology of East-Syrian Schools 155 The Monastic Context of the East-Syrian School Movement 169