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Saint Basil of Caesarea and Armenian Cosmology: A Study of the Armenian Version of Saint Basil's Hexaemeron and Its Influence on Medieval Armenian Vie

Saint Basil of Caesarea and Armenian Cosmology: A Study of the Armenian Version of Saint Basil's Hexaemeron and Its Influence on Medieval Armenian Vie

Thomson, R. W.

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Literary CriticismGeneral Christianity

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ISBN10: 9042926287
ISBN13: 9789042926288
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Jun 5 2012
Pages: 289
Language: English
The Hexaemeron by St Basil of Caesarea was a fundamental sourcefor Christian writers describing the nature of the physical cosmos, notleast in Armenia, where scholars attempted to reconcile theories derivedfrom Greek antiquity with the Bible. The first part of this volume is asurvey of references to Basil in Armenian writers from the fifth to thefourteenth centuries, and more particularly of the influence of the Hexaemeronon their cosmology. The second part is an English translation of theArmenian version. The commentary to the translation identifies theexpansions and changes made by the Armenian translator, and justifiesnumerous divergences from the text of the critical edition [Erevan 1984]in favour of readings also attested in the Syriac version [Leuven 1995, CSCO 550], for the Armenian derives from the latter, not directly fromthe Greek.

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