商品簡介
No great historian emerged to tell the story of the monastic intellectual community that flourished in the region of Gaza from the fourth to the seventh century, Bitton-Ashkelony (comparative religion, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem) and Kofsky (Land of Israel studies, U. of Haifa), so this community is little known compared to its contemporary in the Judean Desert. But it left documents--monastic instructions, historical and hagiographic treaties, erotapokriseis, letters, and polemic compositions that reveal the psychological tensions, moods, frustrations, and elevations in the daily life of the monks and their leaders. This study frames the historical development of the community, and depicts and analyzes the spiritual and intellectual context represented in the sources. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Brouria Bitton Ashkelony, Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Religion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity (Berkeley, 2005), and co-editor of Christian Gaza in Late Antiquity (Brill, 2004). Aryeh Kofsky, Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a Senior Lecturer of Comparative Religion in the Department of Land of Israel Studies, the University of Haifa. His work includes Eusebius of Caesarea Against Paganism (Leiden, 2000), and The Nusayri-Alawi Religion: An Enquiry into Its Theology and Liturgy (Leiden, 2002, with M. Bar-Asher). He is also co-editor of Christian Gaza in Late Antiquity (Brill, 2004).
