Thomas of Edessa's Explanations of the Nativity and Epiphany

Ute Possekel (Harvard Divinity School), J. F. Coakley (Lancaster University)

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English

Oxford University Press
20 April 2021

The Early Church; Church history; Christian liturgy, prayerbooks & hymnals; Christian theology

Series: Oxford Early Christian Texts

Thomas of Edessa flourished as a teacher at the School of Nisibis, an important Christian intellectual centre in sixth-century Persia. He accompanied the later patriarch Mar Aba on his travels around the Mediterranean and followed him to Nisibis. Thomas's only surviving writings are two lectures in Syriac ('Explanations') on the feasts of the Nativity and Epiphany. These discourses were later incorporated into a collection of Explanations of the Feasts covering the whole ecclesiastical year.

This volume presents an edition of Thomas of Edessa's Syriac text of Nativity and Epiphany, accompanied by a facing-page English translation. These discourses, with the editors' introduction and notes, elucidate Thomas's place in the theological development of the Church of the East. He is the earliest author after Narsai to draw extensively upon the theology of Theodore of Mopsuestia, but earlier Syriac traditions are also reflected in his work, and his Christology is not yet the doctrine characteristic of Babai and later East Syriac authors.

Edited by: Ute Possekel (Harvard Divinity School), J. F. Coakley (Lancaster University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 570g
ISBN: 9780198724070
ISBN 10: 0198724071
Series: Oxford Early Christian Texts
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 20 April 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ute Possekel is Lecturer on Syriac at Harvard Divinity School. J. F. Coakley was formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at Lancaster University.

Reviews for Thomas of Edessa's Explanations of the Nativity and Epiphany

...Possekel and Coakley must be thanked for this valuable publication, which will undoubtedly function as the standard edition and English version for years to come. It contributes to our understanding of Syriac-speaking Christianity in late antiquity and provides the basis for future research concerning the reception of earlier traditions in the Church of the East in the early sixth century. * Nathan Witkamp, The Journal of Theological Studies *