An edition of The poetry of thought in late antiquity (2001)

The poetry of thought in late antiquity

essays in imagination and religion

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Ashgate
Language
English
Pages
287

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Subjects

Christianity and literature, Christianity and other religions in literature, Classical literature, History, History and criticism, Philosophy, Ancient, in literature, Religion and literature, Religious literature

Places

Greece, Rome

Times

To 1500
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The poetry of thought in late antiquity: essays in imagination and religion
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: PART I: POETIC IMAGES AND NATURE
Preface
1 "Adam Ate From the Animal Tree": A Bestial Poetry of Soul
:2 Origen on the Bestial Soul: A Poetics of Nature
3 The Physiologus: A Poiesis of Nature
4 Jerome's Centaur: A Hyper-icon of the Desert
PART II: POETIC IMAGES AND THE BODY
Preface
5 "Plenty Sleeps There": The Myth of Eros and Psyche in
Plotinus and Gnosticism
6 "Pleasure of the Text, Text of Pleasure": Eros and Language in
Origen's Commentary on the Song of Songs
7 The Blazing Body: Ascetic Desire in Jerome's
Letter to Eustochium
8 Desert Asceticism and "The Body from Nowhere"
PART III: POETIC IMAGES AND THEOLOGY
Preface
9 "In My Father's House Are Many Dwelling Places":
KxiapLg in Origen's De principiis
10 Origen and the Witch of Endor: Toward an
Iconoclastic Typology
11 Poetic Words, Abysmal Words: Reflections on
Origen's Hermeneutics
12 In Praise of Nonsense: A Piety of the Alphabet in
Ancient Magic
13 "Words With An Alien Voice": Gnostics, Scripture,
and Canon
Bibliography.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-287).

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Aldershot, England, Burlington, VT

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
880/.09
Library of Congress
PA3015.R4 M55 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 287 p. ;
Number of pages
287

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Open Library
OL6795268M
ISBN 10
0754614883
LCCN
00065041
OCLC/WorldCat
45463636
Goodreads
1482013

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