Narsai. Rethinking his work and his world.

Erin Galgay Walsh provides a rich comparison of two of Narsai's homilies pertinent to gender roles in salvation history. 978 3 16 159349 9; 1436 3003 This collection of essays offers a foretaste of an international, collaborative project to translate into English all the extant I memre i (metrical homilies) of Narsai, the preeminent figure of the emergent East Syriac literary and theological tradition. Commencing with recent redefinitions of asceticism that tend to broaden its framework beyond early and medieval Christian monasticism, Robert Kitchen turns to a selection of Narsai's homilies that encourage striving toward spiritual transformation. [Extracted from the article]