Index
Abraham of Bet Rabban
214
Abu Nuʿaym
178
Abū Qurra, Theodore
224, 226, 228–230, 232, 234, 235, 239, 240, 241
adab collections
172–173
Against the Jews (Theodore Abū Qurra)
234
ʿAnazī, Ḥātim al-
180
Anub
65
Aesop
4
Amoun of Nitria
41, 45
Anaxagoras
92
Antony
1, 2, 45, 47, 111, 247, 248
See also Life of Antony
Aphthonius
103
Apollo
109
Apollos
112–113
apomnēmoneuma, anecdotes
75, 85, 87
and apophthegm(ata)
75, 91
apophthegm(ata), saying(s)
3–4, 20, 54–70, 75–93, 104, 109, 120, 132–142, 148, 176–177, 179, 181
and apomnēmoneuma
75, 91
and bios, vita
4, 83–84, 88–90, 122–123, 140
and chreia
75, 82–83, 85, 87–88, 89, 104
and gnōmē
3–4, 75, 79–81, 85, 86–87, 91
and non-Christian apophthegm(ata)
90–92
and paroimia
75, 86–87
collections of
83–86, 90–91, 92, 122, 163
meaning of
75–77, 81, 92
kinds of
86–88
Apophthegmata Patrum
1, 5, 6, 7, 13, 16, 19, 24, 36, 54, 55, 57–70, 75, 91, 104, 109–111, 114, 119–142, 147–163, 166, 175–180, 249
and bios, vita
122–123, 140, 148, 149–163
and non-Christian apophthegmata
91
and John Cassian
109–111, 114
collections of
58, 60, 62, 63
translations of, Arabic
175–179
translations of, Armenian
147–163
translations of, Slavonic see paterikon, Slavonic
Aristotle
78–81, 82, 83, 86
Arsenius
58, 63
Ascetica see Paralipomena
ascetics in Islam see zuhhād
Aṣmaʿī, al-
174
Athanasius
37, 39, 40, 43, 44, 46, 47, 49, 247
Athenaeus
77, 82, 87
Avot (tractate)
5
Barsanuphius and John the Prophet, correspondence of
54–70
identity of ‘fathers’
54–57
Bartholomew
147
Basil the Great
15, 59
Basra
166–181
Baṣrī, Ḥasan al-
167–169
Bible
58, 67–70, 168, 170, 175–176, 189, 191, 192–197, 216, 224–241
and prooftexting
240
biography, vita, bios
122, 123, 140, 180
and apophthegm(ata)
4, 83–84, 88–90, 122–123, 140
and Apophthegmata Patrum
148
Book of Beliefs and Opinions, The (Saadia Gaon)
226, 228, 239
Bunānī, Thābit al-
169
Bustān al-Ruhbān (The Garden of the Monks)
166
Callisthenes
83
Cassian the Sabaite
97–98
Cassius Dio
77
choirs, Syriac women’s
203–217
Cicero
81–82
chreia
103
and apophthegm(ata)
75, 82–83, 85, 87–88, 89, 104
Clitarchi sententiae
5
Commentary on the Diatessaron (Ephrem the Syrian)
209
Corpus Dionysiacum
14
Cyril of Alexandria
39
Cyril of Scythopolis
97
De gentibus Indiae et Bragmanibus (Palladius of Helenopolis)
124, 127
Demetrius of Phalerum
83
Dicaearchus
81
Diogenes Laertius
77, 81, 82, 84, 87, 88, 89–90
Diogenes the Cynic
84
Diogenianus
86
Dionysius Exiguus
21
Dorotheus of Gaza
54, 56, 57, 58, 59–60, 63, 66
Egypt see Lower Egypt; Upper Egypt
ʿElī, Yefet ben
237
Elianus
69–70
Ephesus, council of
39
Ephrem the Syrian
205, 207–210, 215, 216
See also Life of Ephrem
Epictetus
4
Epicurus
4
Euripides
86, 87
Euthymius
56
ergasia, elaborations
103, 104, 106
Evagrius of Pontus
1, 47n47, 59, 64, 99–108
and John Cassian
99–108, 114
Favorinus
87
Gaza
54, 56, 57–58
gentiles and Jews
187–200
George of Arbela
216
gnōmē, maxim
103, 104, 107
and apophthegm(ata)
3–4, 75, 79–81, 85, 86–87, 91
and paroimia
75, 82
gnomologia
79–81, 85–86, 90, 173
Gnomologium Vaticanum
87
Gregory Bar Hebraeus
205n8
Gregory of Nazianzus
14, 55n6, 59
Gregory of Nyssa
55n6
Gregory the Illuminator
147
hadīths
169, 171, 172–173, 177, 140, 180–181
hagiography
6, 20, 23, 120, 122, 123, 127, 140, 180, 212, 247
Hanah-Ishoʿ
212
Hermogenes
103
Historia Lausiaca (Palladius)
41, 48–49, 61, 91, 124, 127
Historia monachorum in Aegypto
55, 57–61, 124, 126, 127
Ḥilyat al-awliyāʾ wa-ṭabaqāt al-aṣfiyāʾ (Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī)
172, 179, 180
Homily on Ephrem the Syrian (Jacob of Sarug)
207, 210
Horsiesius
36, 39, 43, 46
hymnography, hymns
203–217
Hymns on Faith (Ephrem the Syrian)
210
Hymns on the Nativity (Ephrem the Syrian)
210
Hymns on the Resurrection (Ephrem the Syrian)
210
Ibn Aḥmad, ʿAbdallāh
180
Ibn al-Jawzī
169
Ibn al-Mubārak
171, 172
Ibn Dīnār, Mālik
169, 177–178
Ibn Dīnār, Salama
169
Ibn Ḥanbal, Aḥmad
172, 180
Ibn Kaysān, Ṭāwūs
169
Ibn Munabbih, Wahb
174
Ibn Sinān, al-Ḥārith
235–236, 237
Instructions (Dorotheus of Gaza)
59–60, 63
Isaiah of Gaza
56, 57
Asceticon
61
Iṣfahānī, Abū Nuʿaym al-
172
isnād, chain of transmission
173, 180
isrāʾīliyyāt
174, 175, 179
Jacob of Sarug
205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 214
Jāḥiẓ, al-
174
Jewish-Christian relations
237–240
Jews and gentiles
187–200
Jesus
167, 168, 175, 188, 189, 193, 194, 195–197, 226, 230, 232
and Moses
175, 187, 190–192, 195, 199, 200, 234
John Cassian
97–114
and Apophthegmata Patrum
98, 109–111
and Evagrius of Pontus
99–108, 114
John of Damascus
224
John of Ephesus
207, 210, 211, 215–216
John of Tella
215
John the Persian
178
Judaeo-Arabic
226, 237–239
Justinian I
40
K. al-Zuhd wa-l-raqāʾiq (Ibn al-Mubārak)
171
kalām
225, 227, 228
kephalaia
5, 67
Kievan Rus’
119, 128, 129
Lamprias
84–85
Letter of Ammon
22, 36, 38, 39, 45, 47, 48–49
Life of Antony (Vita Antonii)
36, 40–41, 42, 43, 247, 249
Life of Ephrem
206, 207–209, 210, 216
See also Ephrem the Syrian
Life of Febronia
212
Life of Methodius
120
Life of Pachomius
13–32, 20, 35–50
Vita altera (G2)
20–21, 22, 49
Vita brevis
21
Vita prima (G1)
13–32, 40–41, 45–46, 48, 49
Life of Shenoute
41
Life of Theodorus
21
literacy, female
211–213
liturgy
203–217
and liturgical training
211
Lives of the Eastern Saints (John of Ephesus)
207
Lower Egypt
35–50, 125
Lynceus
83
Maruta Canons
206, 215
Menander
4, 87
Methodius
119, 120, 125, 126–127
Metrocles
89
monasticism
5–6, 35, 36–46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 56–57, 107–108, 147–148, 166, 170, 175, 176, 247, 248
Moses
175, 193, 194
and Jesus
175, 187, 190–192, 195, 197, 199, 200, 234
Moses (Abba)
111–113
Narsai of Nisibis
214
Nicaea, council of
55n6
Nisteros the Cenobite
58, 65, 67
Nomocanon (ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brika)
214
Old Church Slavonic
119, 126
onomatomania
174
On Salvation (Theodore Abū Qurra)
233
On the Trinity (Theodore Abū Qurra)
233
orality
2, 50, 58, 60, 90, 167, 176, 177, 180, 192, 195, 197, 227, 238
Origen
46–47, 49, 70, 247
Origenism
49, 59, 62
Pachomius
13–32, 35–50
See also Life of Pachomius; Rule of Pachomius
Palamon
42
Paralipomena (Ascetica)
20, 21, 22, 36, 45, 47, 48–49
paroimia, proverb
and apophthegm(ata)
75, 86–87
and gnōmē
75, 82
paterikon, Slavonic
120–140
Azbučno-Ierusalimskij Paterik
124–125
Egipetskij
124, 127
Rimskij Paterik
124, 126–127
secondary collections
127–128
Sinajskij Paterik
124, 126, 127
Skitskij Paterik
124, 125–126, 127, 128, 129
Paul of Samosata
204n6
Petronius
43
Philo of Alexandria
77
Photios
84
Plato
78
Plutarch
1, 81, 82, 84, 87, 88–90
Poemen
58, 62–66
Pratum spirituale (John Moschos)
91, 124, 126
progymnasmata
82, 87, 103
prooftexts
240
Psalms, psalmody
175–176, 206, 211, 213, 214, 229
Pseudo-Clementine Homilies
187–200
and Clement of Rome
188
and Peter
187, 188, 192, 193–195, 197, 199
and Pharisees
193–197
and the Prophet of truth
187, 188, 193–194, 195
Pythagoras
4, 86–87, 247
Qurʾān
3, 167, 170, 172, 175, 224, 232
quṣṣāṣ, Islamic storytellers
169, 173–174, 177–178, 180
Qūt al-qulūb (Abū Ṭālib al-Makkī)
180
Rabbinic Judaism
192–200, 227–228
Rāzī, Ḥātim al-
172
renunciants see zuhhād
rhēma
78
Rubenson, Samuel
247–258
list of publications
251–258
Rule of Pachomius
21, 22, 48–49
Rus’ see Kievan Rus’
Russian literature
119, 120, 122–128
Saadia Gaon
226, 227–228, 229, 230, 231–235, 236–237, 239, 240, 241
Sabākhī, Farqad al-
169, 170
Sayings of the (Desert) Fathers see Apophthegmata Patrum
Scala paradisi (John Climacus)
91
School of Nisibis
211, 213–215
schools, village
211, 215
Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides
5
Sentences of Sextus
5, 100
Sententiae ad virginem (Evagrius of Pontus)
107–108
Sententiae Pythagoreum
5
Seridus
56, 60, 61
Seven Sages
4, 77, 78, 83
Sextus
87
Shenoute
45
See also Life of Shenoute
Simeon the Mountaineer
210–211, 216
Socrates
83–84
Sopater
84
Sotion
77
Stesichorus
81
Stobaeus
81, 82, 84
Testament (Horsiesius)
43
textual doublets
121, 132–142
Thaddeus
147
Theodore the Sanctified
36, 39, 43, 46, 47
Theodosius, Archbishop of Alexandria
45
Theologus Autodidactus (Theodore Abū Qurra)
226
Theon
82, 103
Theophilus, Pope of Alexandria
38–39, 43
Theophrastus
81
theosebeis
189, 198, 200
Timothy I
167
Timothy of Alexandria
40
Tiridates III, king of Armenia
147
Trinity
232–234
Upper Egypt
36, 38–39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47–48
Wisdom
230–231
wisdom literature, biblical
3, 5, 175–176, 224–241
wisdom traditions
3–7, 247, 248
women as teachers
203–217
Xenophon
77–78, 81, 82, 87
Zenobius
86
Zosimas
56, 60
Zuhd al-thamāniyya min al-tābiʿīn (Ḥātim al-Rāzī)
172
zuhhād, Islamic renunciants
166–181