Are You My Stranger? Developing a Biblical Pedagogy of Migration in Syriac Christian Sources
Migration, in late antiquity as in the present century, was a widespread phenomenon that came at great cost to individuals, families, and communities. The need to care for the “strangers” in their midst accordingly became an active, vibrant concern for Christian leaders already during the first cent...
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| 格式: | 电子 文件 |
| 语言: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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Journal of early Christian history
Year: 2024, 卷: 14, 发布: 2, Pages: 1-23 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KBL Near East and North Africa RC Liturgy RD Hymnology RE Homiletics |
| Further subjects: | B
Syriac Christianity
B Liturgy B 迁移 B 仪式 B Moses B Jacob |
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| 总结: | Migration, in late antiquity as in the present century, was a widespread phenomenon that came at great cost to individuals, families, and communities. The need to care for the “strangers” in their midst accordingly became an active, vibrant concern for Christian leaders already during the first centuries of the Common Era. This is particularly true for Syriac communities, where the commemoration of those who had died far from their homes traces itself at least to the fifth century. To encourage congregations’ support of and identification with migrants, homilists and hymnodists drew on biblical models, reading the patriarchs of the Hebrew Scriptures and the towering figures of the New Testament through the lens of migration and exile. This article focuses on some of the most prominent examples of these practices, including Jacob, Moses, and Jesus, to examine the pedagogical concerns and strategies that emerge from the migrant-centric writings of early Syriac literature. |
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| ISSN: | 2471-4054 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of early Christian history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/2222582X.2024.2379373 |