Fire from Heaven: Studies in Syriac Theology and Liturgy. By Sebastian Brock
The 17 articles collected in this volume form an excellent illustration of Professor Brock's qualities as both a close student of Syriac texts and a sympathetic expositor of Syriac-speaking Christian theology. After four papers on Christology, focusing mainly on the Church of the East, the spot...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 389-390 |
| Review of: | Fire from heaven (Aldershot [u.a.] : Ashgate Variorum, 2006) (Gould, Graham)
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| Summary: | The 17 articles collected in this volume form an excellent illustration of Professor Brock's qualities as both a close student of Syriac texts and a sympathetic expositor of Syriac-speaking Christian theology. After four papers on Christology, focusing mainly on the Church of the East, the spotlight turns on invocations of the Holy Spirit. Three of the papers are surveys of baptismal and eucharistic epicleses in the various Syriac liturgical traditions; four are then devoted to the influence on the vocabulary of Syriac liturgy and theology of the term used to translate ‘the power of the Most High will overshadow (πισκισει/naggen) you’ of Luke 1:35 (the related terms in the Hebrew Bible and Palestinian Targum are also considered). The interpretation of Gen. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fll152 |