Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch

Alexandre M. Roberts teaches in the Department of Classics at the University of Southern California.

• Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. TRANSLATION 1. A Scholar and His City §1 Abdallāh ibn al-Fada of Antioch §2 Byzantine Antioch 2. A Translation Program §1 Scripture and Liturgy §2 Late Antique Biblical Exegesis §3 Pro-Chalcedonian Dogma at the Dawn of Islam §4 Collected Wisdom §5 In Praise of Saints §6 Conclusion 3. A Byzantine Ecclesiastical Curriculum §1 Greek Manuscripts §2 Chrysostom and the Cappadocian Fathers §3 Orthodoxy, Education, and Orations for Saints §4 Contemporary Georgian Translators §5 Georgian Book Culture §6 Conclusion PART II. PHILOSOPHY 4. Purpose in the Prefaces §1 The Psalter §2 The Garden §3 Demetrios§4 Isaac the Syrian§5 Chrysostom and Paul §6 Kaisarios and a Litany of Philosophical Questions §7 Conclusion 5. Education in the Margins§1 The Garden §2 Sophronios §3 John of Thessaloniki §4 Chrysostom on Hebrews: Substantial Images §5 Conclusion 6. Logic §1 Moses Contemplating: Beings, Substances, and Accident §2 Dog Logic and the Arabic Aristotle §3 Logic in the Garden §4 Conclusion 7. Physics §1 Types of Causes §2 Qualities as Bodies or Nothing at All §3 Relative Corporeality of Angels§4 Matter and Atoms, Plenum and Void §5 Conclusion 8. Cosmology §1 The Sky’s Elements §2 Infinity and the Eternity of the World 9. Astronomy §1 Translating Astronomical Terminology §2 The Stars, Byzantine Marginalia, and an Arabophone Byzantine Astronomer §3 Astrology §4 Conclusion 10. A Shared Scholarly Culture §1 Method and Madness §2 Twin Paideias §3 West of Samarqand Bibliography General Index Arabic Index Greek Index Index of Manuscripts

"Roberts has produced not only an impressive work of intellectual and social history but also an accomplished exemplar of the exploration of unpublished sources with insightful philological and linguistic examinations."