Description
Book Synopsis13 studies on Greek-speaking preachers and audiences in a period from the beginning of the second century A.D. to the beginning of the tenth century cover themes including the identity of Greek-speaking preachers, the circumstances of delivery, the different genres of homiletic, the adaptation of the tropes of Classical rhetoric by Christian preachers, the subject matter of sermons, exegetical approaches, the preparation, redaction and transmission of sermons, the audiences for sermons and their composition, the location and circumstances of preaching, and the interaction between preacher and audience. Each chapter is accompanied by a summary biblography of the most important primary source and secondary literature.
Trade Review'...a most admirable and substantial collection.' Alexander Evers, Journal of Roman Studies, 2000. '...well planned, tidily edited, with high quality contributions.' M.E. Mullett, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2000. 'Im ganzen ist der Band jedenfalls, was die Methodik der Fragestellung an den Gegenstand betrifft, von beeindruckender Geschollsenheit.' Franz Tinnefeld, Jahrbuch der Österreichisen Byzantinistik, 2000. 'This book deserves to be the seedbed of a flowering of scholarship.' Richard Price, Fellowship of St.Alban and St.Sergius.
