Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism

Studies in Honor of Alexander Golitzin

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Andrei A. Orlov
The essays collected in Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism intend to honor Alexander Golitzin, a scholar known for his keen attention to the Jewish matrix of Eastern Orthodox spirituality. Following Golitzin's insights, this Festschrift explores influences of Jewish apocalypticism and mysticism on certain early and late Christian authors, including Irenaeus, Origen, Evagrius of Pontus, Pseudo-Dionysius, and Symeon the New Theologian. Special attention is given to Jewish theophanic traditions regarding the beatific vision of the divine Glory (Kavod), which profoundly shaped Eastern Christian theology and liturgy. This volume demonstrates that recent developments in the study of apocalyptic literature, the Qumran Scrolls, Gnosticism, and later Jewish mysticism throw new and welcome light on the sources and continuities of Orthodox theology, liturgy, and spirituality
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Front Matter
Copyright Page
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography of the Works of Alexander Golitzin
Introduction
Part 1 Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism and Mysticism
Chapter 1 Traumatic Mysteries: Pathways of Mysticism among the Early Christians
Chapter 2 The Importance of the Parables of 1 Enoch for Understanding the Son of Man in the Four Gospels
Chapter 3 Driven Away with a Stick: The Femininity of the Godhead in y. Ber. 12d, the Emergence of Rabbinic Modalist Orthodoxy, and the Christian Binitarian Complex
Chapter 4 The Nativity of Ben Sira Reconsidered
Part 2 Theophany and Transformation
Chapter 5 Historical Memory and the Eschatological Vision of God’s Glory in Irenaeus
Chapter 6 Flesh Invested with the Paternal Light: St Irenaeus on the Transfiguration of the Body
Chapter 7 Flesh and Fire: Incarnation and Deification in Origen of Alexandria
Chapter 8 St John Chrysostom in the West
Chapter 9 Divine Light and Salvific Illumination in St. Symeon the New Theologian’s Hymns of Divine Eros
Part 3 Jewish Temple and Christian Liturgy
Chapter 10 Leviathan’s Knot: The High Priest’s Sash as a Cosmological Symbol
Chapter 11 Moses as the First Priest-Gnostikos in the Works of Evagrius of Pontus
Chapter 12 Holy Sound: Preaching as Divine Song in Late Antique Syriac Tradition
Chapter 13 The Lord Himself, One Lord, One Power: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Isaiah 63:9 and Daniel 7:13
Part 4 Pseudo-Dionysius, Plato, and Proclus
Chapter 14 Revisiting the Christian Platonism of Pseudo-Dionysius
Chapter 15 Individual and Liturgical Piety in Dionysius the Areopagite
Chapter 16 Ps.-Ps.-Dionysius on the Dormition of the Virgin Mary: The Armenian Letter of Dionysius to Titus
Chapter 17 The “Platonic” Character of Gregory of Nyssa’s Psychology: The Old Canon
Chapter 18 Charioteer and Helmsman: Some Distant Echoes of Plato’s Phaedrus in Syriac Literature
Back Matter
Indexes
Andrei A. Orlov is Professor of Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity at Marquette University, USA. He has written extensively on Jewish apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism, including The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (Mohr Siebeck, 2005), Heavenly Priesthood in the Apocalypse of Abraham (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and The Glory of the Invisible God: Two Powers in Heaven Traditions and Early Christology (Bloomsbury, 2019).
<Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography of the Works of Alexander Golitzin
 Compiled by Bogdan G. Bucur

Introduction
 Andrei A. Orlov

Part 1 Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism and Mysticism



1 Traumatic Mysteries: Pathways of Mysticism among the Early Christians
 April D. DeConick

2 The Importance of the Parables of 1 Enoch for Understanding the Son of Man in the Four Gospels
 Charles Gieschen

3 Driven Away with a Stick: the Femininity of the Godhead in y. Ber. 9:1, 12d, the Emergence of Rabbinic Modalist Orthodoxy, and the Christian Binitarian Complex
 Silviu N. Bunta

4 The Nativity of Ben Sira Reconsidered
 James R. Russell

Part 2 Theophany and Transformation



5 Historical Memory and the Eschatological Vision of God’s Glory in Irenaeus
 Khaled Anatolios

6 Flesh Invested with the Paternal Light: St Irenaeus on the Transfiguration of the Body
 John Behr

7 Flesh and Fire: Incarnation and Deification in Origen of Alexandria
 Charles M. Stang

8 St John Chrysostom in the West
 Marcus Plested

9 Divine Light and Salvific Illumination in St. Symeon the New Theologian’s Hymns of Divine Eros
 John A. McGuckin

Part 3 Jewish Temple and Christian Liturgy



10 Leviathan’s Knot: the High Priest’s Sash as a Cosmological Symbol
 Andrei A. Orlov

11 Moses as the First Priest-Gnostikos in the Works of Evagrius of Pontus
 Robin Darling Young

12 Holy Sound: Preaching as Divine Song in Late Antique Syriac Tradition
 Susan Ashbrook Harvey

13 The Lord Himself, One Lord, One Power: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Isaiah 63:9 and Daniel 7:13
 Bogdan G. Bucur

Part 4 Pseudo-Dionysius, Plato, and Proclus



14 Revisiting the Christian Platonism of Pseudo-Dionysius
 István Perczel

15 Individual and Liturgical Piety in Dionysius the Areopagite
 Andrew Louth

16 Ps.-Dionysius on the Dormition of the Virgin Mary: the Armenian Letter of Dionysius to Titus
 Stephen J. Shoemaker

17 The “Platonic” Character of Gregory of Nyssa’s Psychology: the Old Canon
 Michel René Barnes

18 Charioteer and Helmsman: Some Distant Echoes of Plato’s Phaedrus in Syriac Literature
 Sebastian Brock

Index
This book will be of interest to scholars of early Judaism and early Christianity, Jewish and Christian mysticism, patristics and liturgy.
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