Patricia Cox Miller

Hthe Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity

Essays in Imagination and Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

This title was first published in 2001. These collected essays by Patricia Cox Miller identify new possibilities of meaning in the study of religion in late antiquity. The book addresses the topic of the imaginative mindset of late ancient authors from a variety of Greco-Roman religious traditions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781138711990
• ISBN-10: 1138711993
• Artikelnr.: 56928047

Autorenporträt

Patricia Cox Miller

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Poetic images and nature: Preface
Adam ate from the animal tree?: a bestial poetry of soul
Origen on the bestial soul: a poetics of nature
The Physiologus: A Poetics of Nature
Jerome's centuar: a hyper-icon of the desert
Poetic images and the body: Preface
Plenty sleeps there?: the myth of Eros and Psyche in Plotinus and Gnosticism
Pleasure of the text, text of pleasure?: Eros and language. Origen's Commentary on the Song of Song
The blazing body: ascetic desire in Jerome's Letter to Eustochium
Desert ascetism and The body from nowhere?
Poetic images and theology: Preface
In my Father's house are many dwelling places?: Origen's De principiis
Origen and the witch of Endor: toward an iconoclastic typology
Poetic words, abysmal words: reflections on Origen's hermeneutics
In praise of nonsense: a piety of the alphabet in ancient magic
Words with an alien voice?: gnostics, scripture and canon
Bibliography.