IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1147: Theodore of Mopsuestia's Heritage as Entanglement: Involvement, Acceptance, and Rejection
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Sofia Puchkova, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Sofia Puchkova, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1147-a | Obscure Networks in Theodore of Mopsuestia's Biblical Exegesis: Reception as Involvement (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Greek |
| Paper 1147-b | Theodore of Mopsuestia on Doubting Thomas: The Reception of a Controversial Interpretation and the Compositional Practices of Heretical Discourse (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Language and Literature - Semitic, Theology |
| Paper 1147-c | Anti-Allegorical Arguments in Syriac Psalm Commentaries and the Reception of Theodore of Mopsuestia (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Semitic |
| Abstract | Theodore of Mopsuestia is a most prominent 4/5th century Greek biblical scholar and theologian on the level of Augustine of Hippo, whose writings caused a significant resonance in the East for the generations to come. Theodore's reception is a nascent area of research, which has not been addressed systematically. This session is one of the first attempt to cover various aspects of this problem. It will address the reception of Theodore's heritage in the later Greek and Syriac literature as creating ties and networks stretching from the 4th-century Greek authors, to whom Theodore himself owed his exegetical ideas, and reaching Greek and Syrian theologians, biblical commentators and mystics who dealt with his heritage in various ways, rejecting or accepting and developing it. |