The Making of Syriac Jerusalem: Representations of the Holy City in Syriac Literature of Late Antiquity...

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Catalin-Stefan Popa

The Making of Syriac Jerusalem

Representations of the Holy City in Syriac Literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages...

Catalin-Stefan Popa

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Routledge
28 November 2024

Classical history & classical civilisation; History of religion; Church history; Ancient religions & mythologies

Series: Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World

This book discusses hagiographic, historiographical, hymnological, and theological sources that contributed to the formation of the sacred picture of the physical as well as metaphysical Jerusalem in the literature of two Eastern Christian denominations, East and West Syrians.

Popa analyses the question of Syrian beliefs about the Holy City, their interaction with holy places, and how they travelled in the Holy Land. He also explores how they imagined and reflected the theology of this itinerary through literature in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, set alongside a well-defined local tradition that was at times at odds with Jerusalem. Even though the image of Jerusalem as a land of sacred spaces is unanimously accepted in the history of Christianity, there were also various competing positions and attitudes. This often promoted the attempt at mitigating and replacing Jerusalem’s sacred centrality to the Christian experience with local sacred heritage, which is also explored in this study. Popa argues that despite this rhetoric of artificial boundaries, the general picture epitomises a fluid and animated intersection of Syriac Christians with the Holy City especially in the medieval era and the subsequent period, through a standardised process of pilgrimage, well-integrated in the custom of advanced Christian life and monastic canon.

The Making of Syriac Jerusalem is suitable for students and scholars working on the history, literature, and theology of Syriac Christianity in the late antique and medieval periods.

By: Catalin-Stefan Popa
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032471020
ISBN 10: 1032471026
Series: Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World
Pages: 314
Publication Date: 28 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Catalin-Stefan Popa is Research Professor in Church History at the Romanian Academy in Bucharest. He holds his Ph.D. from Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany (2016). In 2021 he received the venia legendi (habilitation) at Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria. He published articles, and edited volumes on Syriac and Oriental ecclesiastical history, exegesis, and literature, including the monograph Gīwargīs I. (660–680). Ostsyrische Christologie in frühislamischer Zeit (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016). He is the editor-in-chief and founder of The Syriac Annals of Romanian Academy (SARA).

Reviews for The Making of Syriac Jerusalem: Representations of the Holy City in Syriac Literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

""...this book offers valuable insights and inspiring ideas, and the author responsibly approaches research questions, providing guidelines for further research into Syriac pilgrimage."" - Mediterranean Historical Review ""This rich study is invaluable for its contributions to Syriac studies, theology, history, liturgy, hagiology, institutional history, cultural studies, and many other areas. It is the definitive study of the topic, and one that will not soon be superseded."" - Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity