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Kitchen, Robert, and Martien F. G. Parmentier. The Syriac Book of Steps 1
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| Title: | The Syriac Book of Steps 1 | | Subtitle: | Syriac Text and English Translation | | Series: | Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 12 | | Availability: | In Print | | Publisher: | Gorgias Press |
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| Fascicle 1 | | Translation and Introduction by Robert Kitchen | | Translation and Introduction by Martien F. G. Parmentier | | ISBN: | 978-1-59333-978-4 | | Availability: | In Print | | Publication Date: | 9/2009 | | Format: | Paperback, Black, 6 x 9 in | | Pages: | 231 |
The Book of Steps is a collection of 30 sermons and Biblical interpretation by an anonymous author living in the Persian Empire (modern Iraq) during the late 300's. One of the largest examples of early Syriac literature, the Book of Steps describes the struggle of a Christian community prior to the advent of monasticism to live a faithful, committed life in the pursuit of perfection. The author details the aspirations and standards of the two ranks of Christians in his community: the Upright ones—married lay people who work in the world and perform the various acts of Christian charity—and the Perfect ones who are celibate, do not work, but live a life of prayer, while wandering through the region teaching and mediating conflicts. The Book of Steps is a unique work because it presents a living portrait of an actual religious community, not an idealized one, in the midst of a hostile culture. While the author advocates an ascetical lifestyle, this community does not practice the extreme physical asceticism so often associated with the Syriac church during this period. Unlike many works on the spiritual life, the author gradually seems to withdraw his praise for the higher rank, the Perfect, and begin to encourage, if not favor, the lower rank, the Upright.
Volume 1 contains a brief introduction to The Book of Steps; Syriac text and English translation: Preface and Memre 1–10. The first 10 memre focus on the author’s depiction of the basic ways of Uprightness and Perfection.
Robert A. Kitchen is the Minister of Knox-Metropolitan United Church, Regina, Saskatchewan. He holds a D.Phil in Syriac Language and Literature from the University of Oxford. Along with Martien F. G. Parmentier he has translated the Book of Steps for Cistercian Publications.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents (page 5)
- Introduction (page 7)
- Syriac Editor's Preface (page 12)
- Memra One (page 20)
- Memra Two: About Those Who Want to Become Perfect (page 32)
- Memra Three: The Physical And the Spiritual Ministry (page 50)
- Memra Four: On the Vegetables for the Sick (page 82)
- Memra Five: On the Milk of the Children (page 94)
- Memra Six: On Those Who Are Made Perfect and Continue to Grow (page 126)
- Memra Seven: On the Commandments of the Upright (page 132)
- Memra Eight: On One Who Gives All He Has to Feed the Poor (page 166)
- Memra Nine: On Uprightness and the Love of the Upright and the Prophets (page 176)
- Memra Ten (page 214)
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