Johannes Hahn - The Wandering Holy Man: The Life of Barsauma, Christian Asceticism, and Religious Conflict in Late Antique Palestine

Peter Brown, General Editor

1. Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity, by Sabine G. MacCormack

2. Synesius of Cyrene: Philosopher-Bishop, by Jay Alan Bregman

3. Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity, by Kenneth G. Holum

4. John Chrysostom and the Jews: Rhetoric and Reality in the Late Fourth Century, by Robert L. Wilken

5. Biography in Late Antiquity: The Quest for the Holy Man, by Patricia Cox

6. Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt, by Philip Rousseau

7. Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, by A. P. Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein

8. Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul, by Raymond Van Dam

9. Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition, by Robert Lamberton

10. Procopius and the Sixth Century , by Averil Cameron

11. Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity, by Robert A. Kaster

12. Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, a.d. 180275, by Kenneth Harl

13. Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, introduced and translated by Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey

14. Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection, by Carole Straw

15. Apex Omnium: Religion in the Res gestae of Ammianus, by R. L . Rike

16. Dioscorus of Aphrodito: His Work and His World, by Leslie S. B. MacCoull

17. On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity, by Michele Renee Salzman

18. Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and The Lives of the Eastern Saints, by Susan Ashbrook Harvey

19. Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius, by Alan Cameron and Jacqueline Long, with a contribution by Lee Sherry

20. Basil of Caesarea, by Philip Rousseau

21. In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini, introduction, translation, and historical commentary by C. E . V. Nixon and Barbara Saylor Rodgers

22. Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital, by Neil B. McLynn

23. Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity, by Richard Lim

24. The Making of a Heretic: Gender, Authority, and the Priscillianist Controversy, by Virginia Burrus

25. Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontiuss Life and the Late Antique City, by Derek Krueger

26. The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine, by Sabine MacCormack

27. Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems, by Dennis E. Trout

28. The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran, by Elizabeth Key Fowden

29. The Private Orations of Themistius, translated, annotated, and introduced by Robert J. Penella

30. The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity, by Georgia Frank

31. Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity , edited by Tomas Hgg and Philip Rousseau

32. Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium, by Glenn Peers

33. Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity, by Daniel Caner

34. Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century a.d., by Noel Lenski

35. Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages, by Bonnie Effros

36. Quayr Amra: Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria, by Garth Fowden

37. Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition, by Claudia Rapp

38. Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity, by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony

39. There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire, by Michael Gaddis

40. The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq, by Joel Thomas Walker

41. City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria, by Edward J. Watts

42. Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination, by Susan Ashbrook Harvey

43. Man and the Word: The Orations of Himerius , edited by Robert J. Penella

44. The Matter of the Gods, by Clifford Ando

45. The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran, by Matthew P. Canepa

46. Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and Christian Communities , by Edward J. Watts

47. Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa, by Leslie Dossey

48. Theodorets People: Social Networks and Religious Conflict in Late Roman Syria, by Adam M. Schor

49. Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome, by Susanna Elm

50. Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty: Rural Patronage, Religious Conflict, and Monasticism in Late Antique Egypt, by Ariel G. Lpez

51. Doctrine and Power: Theological Controversy and Christian Leadership in the Later Roman Empire, by Carlos R. Galvo-Sobrinho

52. Crisis of Empire: Doctrine and Dissent at the End of Late Antiquity, by Phil Booth

53. The Final Pagan Generation, by Edward J. Watts

54. The Mirage of the Saracen: Christians and Nomads in the Sinai Peninsula in Late Antiquity, by Walter D. Ward

55. Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac Churches, by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent

56. A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity, by Richard E. Payne

57. Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia: Martyrdom and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity, by Kyle Smith

58. In the Image of Origen: Eros, Virtue, and Constraint in the Early Christian Academy, by David Satran

59. Being Christian in Vandal Africa: The Politics of Orthodoxy in the Post-Imperial West, by Robin Whelan

60. The Wandering Holy Man: The Life of Barsauma, Christian Asceticism, and Religious Conflict in Late Antique Palestine, edited by Johannes Hahn and Volker Menze

61. The Life of the Syrian Saint Barsauma: Eulogy of a Hero of the Resistance to the Council of Chalcedon, translated by Andrew N. Palmer

Edited by Johannes Hahn and Volker Menze

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

University of California Press

Oakland, California

2020 by The Regents of the University of California

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hahn, Johannes, editor. | Menze, Volker-Lorenz, editor.

Title: The wandering holy man : the life of Barsauma, Christian asceticism, and religious conflict in late antique Palestine / edited by Johannes Hahn and Volker Menze.

Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019045921 (print) | LCCN 2019045922 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520304147 (cloth) | ISBN 9780520972957 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH : Barwm, Saint, 456. | Syriac Christian saintsBiography. | Christianity and antisemitismHistory.