Hymns, Homilies and Hermeneutics in Byzantium

The homiletic audience as embodied hermeneutic : scripture and its interpretation in the exegetical preaching of John Chrysostom / Wendy Mayer -- John Damascene's homily on the withered fig tree (CPG 8058) : parable in action, or exegetical and panegyrical preaching in interaction / Fr Damaskinos (Olkinuora) of Xenophontos -- John Damascene on the transfiguration of the lord : mystical homiletic performance and eschatological hermeneutics / Vassilis Adrahtas -- Andrew of Crete's Great canon, Byzantine hermeneutics, and Genesis 1-3 / Doru Costache -- Knowledge in song : liturgical formation and transformation in Romanos the Melodist / Sarah Gador-Whyte -- Is there room for doubt in Christian faith? Romanos the Melodist and John the Monk on the Apostle Thomas / Mary B. Cunningham -- The tears of a harlot : Kassia's Hymn on the sinful woman and the biblical mosaic of salvation / Andrew Mellas -- Looking, listening and learning : Justinian's Hagia Sophia / Brian Croke -- "Blessed is he who has come and comes again" : mimesis and eschatology in Palm Sunday hymns and processions of twelfth-century Jerusalem / Daniel Galadza -- Syriac hymnography before Ephrem / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson -- The eye of the soul in Plato and pseudo-Macarius : Alexandrian theology and the roots of Hesychasm / Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides.
ISBN : 9789004439566