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Author(s): Patricia Cox Miller
ISBN(s): 9781315199535, 1138711993
Edition: reprint
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Year: 2019
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1138711993 
ISBN 13: 9781315199535
Author: Patricia Cox Miller

This title was first published in 2001. These collected essays by Patricia Cox Miller identify new possibilities of meaning in the study of religion in late antiquity. The book addresses the topic of the imaginative mindset of late ancient authors from a variety of Greco-Roman religious traditions. Attending to the play of language, as well as to the late ancient sensitivity to image, metaphor, and paradox, Cox Miller’s work highlights the poetizing sensibility that marked many of the texts of this period and draws on methods of interpretation from a variety of contemporary literary-critical theories. This book will appeal to scholars of late antiquity, religious literature, and literary critical theory more widely, illustrating how fruitful dialogue across the centuries can be – not only in eliciting aspects of late ancient texts that have gone unnoticed but also in showing that many ‘modern’ ideas, such as Roland Barthes’, were actually already alive and well in ancient texts.

The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity Essays in Imagination and Religion 1st Table of contents:

PART I: POETIC IMAGES AND NATURE

Preface

  1. “Adam Ate From the Animal Tree”: A Bestial Poetry of Soul

  2. Origen on the Bestial Soul: A Poetics of Nature

  3. The Physiologus: A Poiesis of Nature

  4. Jerome’s Centaur: A Hyper-icon of the Desert

PART II: POETIC IMAGES AND THE BODY

Preface

  1. “Plenty Sleeps There”: The Myth of Eros and Psyche in Plotinus and Gnosticism

  2. “Pleasure of the Text, Text of Pleasure”: Eros and Language in Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs

  3. The Blazing Body: Ascetic Desire in Jerome’s Letter to Eustochium

  4. Desert Asceticism and “The Body from Nowhere”

PART III: POETIC IMAGES AND THEOLOGY

Preface

  1. “In My Father’s House Are Many Dwelling Places”: κτίσμα in Origen’s De principiis

  2. Origen and the Witch of Endor: Toward an Iconoclastic Typology

  3. Poetic Words, Abysmal Words: Reflections on Origen’s Hermeneutics

  4. In Praise of Nonsense: A Piety of the Alphabet in Ancient Magic

  5. “Words With An Alien Voice”: Gnostics, Scripture, and Canon

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