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This volume is the fruit of the conference titled “The Greek Sources of East-Syriac Mysticism: A Journey through Texts and Thought” (KU Leuven, 26-28 June 2023). It collects contributions by some of the major experts on Syriac mysticism, who gathered for the first time to discuss the crucial issue of its Greek roots. From Evagrius to the desert fathers, from Theodore of Mopsuestia to Gregory of Nazianzus, from Mark the Monk to Abba Isaiah and the Macarian corpus, this book offers a starting-point for exploring the different ways in which the Greek ascetic and theological heritage shaped the universe of 7-8th century East-Syriac mystics.
Price: $151.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Eastern Christian Studies
Publication Date:
16 July 2026
ISBN: 9789004762541
Format: Hardcover
Valentina Duca (DPhil Oxford) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She published “Exploring Finitude”: Weakness and Integrity in Isaac of Nineveh (Peeters, 2022); and “Between Knowledge and Faith: The Syriac Version of Mark the Monk’s Writings as a Crucial Source of Isaac of Nineveh”, Cristianesimo nella storia 46/2 (2025), 333-390.
Joseph Verheyden is Emeritus Professor of New Testament in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the Catholic University of Leuven. He is the former Director of the Louvain Centre for Eastern and Oriental Christianity (LOCEOC) at the same Faculty and was the editor in chief of The Journal of Eastern Christian Studies and of the series Eastern Christian Studies. Recent publications include a co-edited volume (with B. Jacobs and H.G.B. Teule) entitled Dionysius bar Salibi: Guardian of the Syriac Orthodox Tradition (TSEC, 37), Leiden – Boston, Brill, 2025 and a co-edited special issue (with M. Pragt) entitled “All Who Encounter This Book”: Syriac Literature in Transmission, in JECS 77 (2025) 175-377.
Joseph Verheyden is Emeritus Professor of New Testament in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the Catholic University of Leuven. He is the former Director of the Louvain Centre for Eastern and Oriental Christianity (LOCEOC) at the same Faculty and was the editor in chief of The Journal of Eastern Christian Studies and of the series Eastern Christian Studies. Recent publications include a co-edited volume (with B. Jacobs and H.G.B. Teule) entitled Dionysius bar Salibi: Guardian of the Syriac Orthodox Tradition (TSEC, 37), Leiden – Boston, Brill, 2025 and a co-edited special issue (with M. Pragt) entitled “All Who Encounter This Book”: Syriac Literature in Transmission, in JECS 77 (2025) 175-377.