LEADER 04636nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910463255803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0253-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202533 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418277 035 $a(EBL)3442150 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001035993 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11575378 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001035993 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11041646 035 $a(PQKB)11440066 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442150 035 $a(OCoLC)868218256 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26842 035 $a(DE-B1597)449111 035 $a(OCoLC)1013936912 035 $a(OCoLC)859161005 035 $a(OCoLC)979580238 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202533 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442150 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748576 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418277 100 $a20040329d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWriting and holiness$b[electronic resource] $ethe practice of authorship in the early Christian East /$fDerek Krueger 210 $aPhiladelphia, Pa. $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 225 0 $aDivinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion 225 0$aDivinations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-2147-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-289) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tChapter 1. Literary Composition as a Religious Activity -- $tChapter 2. Typology and Hagiography: Theodoret of Cyrrhus's Religious History -- $tChapter 3. Biblical Authors: The Evangelists as Saints -- $tChapter 4. Hagiography as Devotion: Writing in the Cult of the Saints -- $tChapter 5. Hagiography as Asceticism: Humility as Authorial Practice -- $tChapter 6. Hagiography as Liturgy: Writing and Memory in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina -- $tChapter 7. Textual Bodies: Plotinus, Syncletica, and the Teaching of Addai -- $tChapter 8. Textuality and Redemption: The Hymns of Romanos the Melodist -- $tChapter 9. Hagiographical Practice and the Formation of Identity: Genre and Discipline -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aDrawing on comparative literature, ritual and performance studies, and the history of asceticism, Derek Krueger explores how early Christian writers came to view writing as salvific, as worship through the production of art. Exploring the emergence of new and distinctly Christian ideas about authorship in late antiquity, Writing and Holiness probes saints' lives and hymns produced in the Greek East to reveal how the ascetic call to imitate Christ's humility rendered artistic and literary creativity problematic. In claiming authority and power, hagiographers appeared to violate the saintly practices that they sought to promote. Christian writers meditated within their texts on these tensions and ultimately developed a new set of answers to the question "What is an author?"Each of the texts examined here used writing as a technique for the representation of holiness. Some are narrative representations of saints that facilitate veneration; others are collections of accounts of miracles, composed to publicize a shrine. Rather than viewing an author's piety as a barrier to historical inquiry, Krueger argues that consideration of writing as a form of piety opens windows onto new modes of practice. He interprets Christian authors as participants in the religious system they described, as devotees, monastics, and faithful emulators of the saints, and he shows how their literary practice integrated authorship into other Christian practices, such as asceticism, devotion, pilgrimage, liturgy, and sacrifice. In considering the distinctly literary contributions to the formation of Christian piety in late antiquity, Writing and Holiness uncovers Christian literary theories with implications for both Eastern and Western medieval literatures. 410 0$aDivinations : Rereading Late Ancient Religion 606 $aChristian literature, Early$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChristian hagiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChristian literature, Early$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChristian hagiography. 676 $a270.2 700 $aKrueger$b Derek$01015563 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463255803321 996 $aWriting and holiness$92479315 997 $aUNINA