The Spiritual Senses in Late Antique Greek and East Syriac Mysticism. From Evagrius Ponticus to Joseph Hazzaya, Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity series, Brill, Leiden (in preparation).

Adrian C. Pirtea - Claudia Rapp (Hgg.),Monastic Literature in Early Islamic Palestine and Sinai. Sonderheftdes Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin 9/2023 (in preparation).

Andy Hilkens - Adrian C. Pirtea (Hgg.), The Reception of Ephrem the Syrian outside Syriac Christianity, Brepols, Turnhout, 2023 (in preparation).

Siehe auch mein Profil auf Academia.edu.

1. mit Chiara Barbati, "Sogdian Christianity", in: Vince Bantu, Nathan Gibson (Hgg.), Global Christian Texts: Readings in Early Christianity from African, Middle Eastern and Asian Languages, University of California Press, Oakland, CA, 2023 (i. E.).
2. "The Syriac Fathers", in: Paul Gavrilyuk, Andrew Hofer, Matthew Levering (Hgg.), The Oxford Handbook of Deification, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2023 (i. E.).
3. "The Transmission of Evagrius/Ps.-Nilus in Palestine and Sinai after the Second Origenist Controversy. Two Examples of Editorial Revisions in the Early Collections of Apophthegmata", in: Daniel Galadza, Joseph Verheyden (Hgg.),The Lavra of St Sabas: Liturgy and Literature in Communities and Contexts, Peeters, Leuven 2023 (i. E.).
4. "Stirrings of the Mind: Movement and Contemplation in Late Antique Greek Philosophy and East Syriac Mysticism", in: Cyril Hovorun, Miriam Hjälm (Hgg.), Contemplative Traditions: A Symposium in Honour of Fr. Andrew Louth, 2023 (i. E.).
5. "Divine Incomprehensibility and Human Wonder. Some Notes on the use of tehrā/temhā in Syriac Ascetical Literature", in: Georgiana Huian, Beatrice Wyss, Rainer Hirsch-Luipold (Hgg.), Das unergründliche Bild des unergründlichen Gottes, De Gruyter, Berlin 2023 (i. E.).
6. "The Oriental Versions of Evagrius' Antirrheticus and their Approach to Translating the Bible" in: Vittorio Berti, E. Colombi (Hgg.), Proceedings of the International Conference 'Tradire, Tradurre, Tramandare', Rome 20-21 February 2017, Brepols, Turnhout 2023 (i. E.).
7. "The Shepherd of Hermas Fragment from Turfan and Its Manichaean Context", Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 98/3 (2022), S. 427-449.

8. “Babai the Great and Dionysius bar Salibi on the Spiritual Senses: The Syriac Commentaries on Evagrius' Kephalaia Gnostika and their Relevance”, in: Emidio Vergani, Sabino Chialà (Hgg.), Symposium Syriacum XII, held at St Lawrence College Rome, 19-21 August 2016, Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Rome 2022, S. 227-237.

9. “Eclipse Dragons, Seasonal Change, and the Salvation of Light: A Case of Overlapping Cosmologies in Manichaeism”, in: Bill Mak, Eric Huntington (Hgg.), Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia, Brill, Leiden 2022, S. 75-97. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004511675_005.

10. "Review Article: Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity. Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250-750", Iran & Caucasus 25 (2021), S. 301-312. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384X-20210306.
11. “The Syriac and Sogdian Prefaces to the Six Books on the Dormition of the Virgin Mary. Marian Traditions between the Eastern Mediterranean and Central Asia", in: Chiara Barbati, Vittorio Berti (Hgg.), Iranianate and Syriac Christianity in Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Period, Verlag der ÖAW, Wien 2021, S. 279-331.
12. “Astral Ensoulment and Astral Signifiers in Sixth-Century Readings of Origen and Evagrius: Justinian’s Anathemas, Sergius of Reš’aynā, John Philoponus”, Vigiliae Christianae 75/4 (2021), S. 483-523. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15700720-12341477.
13. “Manuscripts, Paratexts and the New Testament Canon. Arethas of Caesarea and the Reception of St John's Apocalypse in Byzantium (9th-11th centuries)”, in:  Ivan Biliarsky, Mihail Mitrea, Andrei Timotin (Hgg.), Religious Rhetoric of Power in Byzantium and South-Eastern Europe Proceedings of the session held at the 12th International Congress of South-East European Studies (Bucharest, 2-6 September 2019), Istros, Brăila 2021, S. 37-61.
14. “The Arabic Physiologus – Second Part: Phys. Arab. α”, in: Caroline Macé, Jost Gippert (Hgg.), The Multilingual Physiologus. Studies in the Oldest Greek Recension and its Translations, Brepols, Turnhout 2021, S. 263-280. DOI: 10.1484/M.IPM-EB.5.122289.
15. “To Pass a Rope through the Eye of a Needle: The Influence of Byzantine Catenae and Homiliaries on the Greek, Church Slavonic, and Old Romanian Readings of Matthew 19,24”, in: Anna Jouravel, Audrey Mathys (Hgg.), Wort- und Formenvielfalt. Festschrift für Christoph Koch zum 80. Geburtstag, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2021, S. 327-352.
16. "St. Isaac of Niniveh's Gnostic Chapters in Sogdian: The Identification of an Anonymous Text from Bulayiq (Turfan)", in: D. Batovici, M. Toca (Hgg.), Caught in Translation: Studies on Versions of Late Antique Christian Literature, Brill, Leiden 2020, S. 85-103. DOI: 10.1163/9789004417182_006.
17. “Isaac of Nineveh, Gnostic Chapters" in: Nicholas Sims-Williams, From Liturgy to Pharmacology. Christian Sogdian Texts from the Turfan Collection, with contributions by J. F. Coakley, Dieter Maue and Adrian Pirtea, Berliner Turfantexte 45, Brepols, Turnhout 2019, S. 117-144.
18. "The Origin of Passions in Neoplatonic and Early Christian Thought: Porphyry of Tyre and Evagrius Ponticus", in: P. Pavlos, L. Janby, T. Tollefsen, E. Emilsson (Hgg.), Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity, Routledge, London & New York 2019, S. 258-274. DOI: 10.4324/9780429440465-15.
19. "From Lunar Nodes to Eclipse Dragons: The Fundaments of the Chaldean Art (CCAG V/2, 131-140) and the Reception of Arabo-Persian Astrology in Byzantium", in: P. Magdalino, A. Timotin (Hgg.), Savoirs prédictifs et techniques divinatoires de l'Antiquité tardive à Byzance, Pomme d'Or, Geneva 2019, S. 343-369.
20. “The Mysticism of the Church of the East”, in: Daniel King (Hg.), The Syriac World, (Routledge Worlds Series), Routledge, New York 2019, S. 355-376. DOI: 10.4324/9781315708195-22.
21. “Is There an Eclipse Dragon in Manichaeism? Some Problems Concerning the Origin and Function of ātālyā in Manichaean Sources”, in: Team Turfanforschung (Hg.), Zur lichten Heimat. Studien zu Manichäismus, Iranistik und Zentralasienkunde im Gedenken an Werner Sundermann, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2017, S. 535–554.
22. “Konkrete und abstrakte Räume der spätantiken Allegorese: Exegetische Methodik und die Deutung des Perlengleichnisses (Matth 13,45f) bei Klemens von Alexandrien und Origenes”, in: Angelika Neuwirth, Nora Schmidt und Nora K. Schmid (eds), Denkraum Spätantike. Szenarien der Konstruktion von Antike im Umfeld des Korans, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2016, S. 235–267. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvc770m8.11.
23. “Self-Knowledge, Illumination and Natural Magic: Some Notes on Pico della Mirandola’s Esotericism and Its Ancient Sources”, in: Geller, Mark; Geus, Klaus (eds), Esoteric Knowledge in Antiquity, TOPOI – Dahlem Seminar for the History of Ancient Sciences, vol. II, (MPIWG – Preprint 454), Berlin 2014, S. 167-198.

Rezensionen

• Harold Tarrant, Danielle A. Layne, Dirk Baltzly, François Renaud (ed.), Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity. Brill's companions to classical reception, 13. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2018, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.06.31.
• Chiara Barbati, The Christian Sogdian Lectionary E5 in Context (Wien, 2016), in: Iran & Caucasus 22/1 (2018), S. 111-115.
• Nestor Kavvadas, Joseph Hazzaya: On Providence. Text, Translation, and Introduction (Leiden, 2016), in: Semitica et Classica 10/2017 [i.E.].
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1. "Greek Collections of Ascetica in Early Islamic Palestine", 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Venedig und Padova, 22.-27. August, 2022.
2. "Perception and the Spiritual Senses in Seventh-Century Byzantine Ascetic Thought. From Origen and Evagrius to Maximus the Confessor", Origeniana Tertia Decima, Münster 15.-19. August, 2022.
3. "The Earliest Ascetic Anthologies in Arabic. Typology, Models, Contexts of Use", XIe Congrès d'Études arabes chrétiennes, Paris, 4.-9. Juli, 2022.
4. "Are there Syro-Melkite Collections of the Apophthegmata Patrum? Distinctive Features of Syriac and Greek Paterika from Early Islamic Palestine and Sinai", Symposium Syriacum XIII, Paris, 4,-9. Juli, 2022.
5. “The Anonymous Syriac Commentary to Evagrius’ Gnostic Trilogy – Authorship, Context, Doctrine.” Évagre en Orient. Novae a(m)bitiones, Colloque International, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, 22.-23. Juni, 2022.
6. “Syriac Monastic Networks and the Transfer of Knowledge between the Eastern Mediterranean, Sasanian Iran and Central Asia.” After Rome and Further East Seminar Series (Trinity Term 2022), University of Oxford, 9. Juni, 2022.
7. “Syriac Melkites in the Early Islamic Period: History – Identity – Manuscript Culture.” Byzantine Worlds Seminar Series, Cambridge University, Cambridge, 27. Mai, 2022. Online.
8. “Three Saints, Four Languages, One Ascetic Corpus. The Convoluted Transmission of Macarius/Symeon in Early Islamic Palestine.” Monastic Literature in the Multilingual Context of Early Islamic Palestine and Sinai: Manuscripts, Scribes, Readers, International Workshop, Universität Wien 7.-8. April, 2022. Online.
9. “From Antioch to Samarkand: Melkite Communities East of Byzantium.” Fifth International Byzantine Seminar Lecture Series: Networks and Connectivity in and beyond Byzantium (IHAC, Northeast Normal University), Changchun, 24. November, 2021. Online.
10. “Evagrian Mysticism in the Syriac Twelfth Century. Dionysius’ Commentary on the Kephalaia Gnostika.” Dionysius bar Salibi: A Polymath of the Syriac Renaissance, International Conference (LOCEOC, KU Leuven), Leuven, 8.-10. November, 2021. Online.
11. “Syriac and Arabic Readers of Apocrypha in Early Islamic Palestine: The Case of the Virgin’s Heavenly Journey in the Six Books on the Dormition.” Online Lecture Series “Visions of Paradise and Hell” (Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy) – invited speaker. Bukarest, 18. Oktober, 2021. Online.
12. “Bizanțul în Asia Centrală. Manuscrisele din Turfan și cultul Maicii Domnului în Orientul creștin.” Lecture Series of the Romanian Society for Byzantine Studies (Institute for South-Eastern European Studies, Romanian Academy of Sciences), Bukarest, 25. Mai, 2021. Online.
13. “Deification in the Syriac Fathers.” The IOTA Deification Colloquia (St. Thomas University), Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, 26. Februar, 2021. Online. URL: .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcsWhD_K2rg.
14. “Divine Incomprehensibility and Human Wonder (tehrā) in East Syriac Mystical Literature.” International Conference Siegel des Göttlichen. Von der Theologie zur Anthropologie und zurück (Universität Bern), Bern, 30. September – 2. Oktober, 2020. Online.
15. “The Story of the Sleepers of Ephesus in Eastern Christianity and Early Islam.” Text and Transmission Joint Research Seminar, organised by A. Hilkens and D. Batovici (KU Leuven/U Ghent), Leuven, 22. Mai, 2020. Online.
16. Stirrings of the Mind. Movement and Contemplation in East Syriac Mysticism, Contemplative Traditions: A Symposium in Honour of Prof. Andrew Louth, Sigtuna, 12.-15. Dezember, 2019.
17. Between Byzantium, Sasanian Iran, and the Qur'an. Greek and Syriac Hagiography in the Seventh Century, European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS) 9, Freie Universität Berlin, 9.-14. September, 2019.
18. The Power of Books. Arethas of Caesarea and his Commentary on the Apocalypse, International Congress of South-East European Studies, Bukarest, 2.-7. September, 2019.
19. Syriac Monastic Charity and Its Influence on Early Islam: Glimpses from an unpublished Paper by Arthur Vööbus (ca. 1948), XVIIIth Oxford Patristics Conference, Oxford, 19.-24. August, 2019.
20. Aristotelian and Biblical Cosmologies in Syriac Literature (3rd-10th Centuries), Natural Sciences and Technologies in Manuscripts and Artefacts, Korneli Kekelidze Center of Manuscripts/MPIWG Berlin, Tbilisi, 27.-28. Juni, 2019.
21. The Macrocosm-Microcosm Analogy in Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism and Early Islamic Gnosis, Formative Exchanges in the Islamicate World: Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and Islam in Context, Bochum, 5.-6. Juni, 2019.
22. Gathering Souls through Parables. The Shepherd of Hermas Fragment from Turfan (M97) and its Manichaean Context, Versions of the Apostolic Past: Ancient Translations of the Apostolic Fathers, Leuven, 22.-23. Mai, 2019.
23. The Sound of Silence: Spiritual Perception and Apophaticism in East Syriac Mystical Literature (7th-8th centuries), International Orthodox Theology Conference, Iasi, 9.-12. Januar, 2019 (Videoaufnahme hier).
24. Philosophical Approaches to Spiritual Perception in the Multi-Religious Context of the Early Abbasid Period, 10th German-Israel Seminar on the Frontiers of the Humanities, Humboldt-Stiftung, Berlin, 19.-21. November 2018.
25. The Leiden Physiologus and some Overlooked Manuscripts in Syriac and Arabic, The World of the Physiologus - Animal Stories and Representations in Oriental Manuscripts, COMSt/Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, 28.-29. Juni 2018.
26. Ascetic Struggle and Divine Providence: East Syriac Mysticism in Turfan, Dall' Iran allo Xinjiang. Le comunità siro-orientali tra VI-XI sec., ÖAW/Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Rom, 9. Juni, 2018.
27. Georg der Araberbischof und die syrische Kommentartradition zu Aristoteles' Organon im 8. Jh., 10. Deutscher Syrologentag, Freie Universität Berlin, 30. Mai - 2. Juni, 2018.
28. The Buddha in the West: Real and Imagined Knowledge about Buddhism in Late Roman Egypt, East-West Networks of the Ancient World, Research workshop, University of Bergen, 9. März, 2018 (Mehr Infos hier).
29. The Messiah in China: Syriac Christianity and Manichaeism in Turfan, East-West Networks of the Ancient World, Research workshop, University of Bergen, 7. März, 2018 (Mehr Infos hier).
30. Eclipses, Dragons, Dark Planets. On the Function and Relevance of Lunar Nodes in Late Antique and Byzantine Astrology, Theories of Divination in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, International Conference, Institute for Philosophy "Alexandru Dragomir"/Universität Bukarest, 17.-18. November, 2017.
31. Syriac Literature as a Source for Understanding Justinian's Anathemas against Origen (543/553), First Annual Conference of the Romanian Society for Byzantine Studies, Nicolae Iorga Institute for History, Bukarest, 16. November, 2017.
32. The Eclipse Dragon in Syriac and Manichaean Sources, East-West Encounter in the Science of Heaven and Earth, International Conference on Traditional Sciences in Asia, Kyoto University, 25.-27. Oktober, 2017.
33. Isaac of Nineveh’s ‘Gnostic Chapters’ in Sogdian: The Identification of an Anonymous Text from Bulayïq and Its Relevance, EASR Annual Conference, Panel: Versions of Late-Antique Christian Literature, KU Leuven, 18.-21. September 2017.
34. Pseudo-Macarius in the Melkite Tradition: Greek, Syriac, and Arabic Collections at St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mt. Sinai, ARAM Conference on Melkite Christianity, Oxford 12-14 Juli, 2017.
35. The Syriac Translations of Evagrius and the Spectre of Origenism, Translate, Mislead, Transmit: The Greek Fathers Between Latin Western and Syriac Eastern World, Rom, 20.-21. Februar, 2017.
36. Christ Descending in Disguise: An Origenist Idea in the Syriac Physiologus?, German-Israel-Fund, Seminar: Visitors from Heaven, Visitors to Heaven, TOPOI-Villa, Berlin, 31. Januar, 2017.
37. Two Fountains Gushing Out by Nature’s Impulse – Porphyry and Evagrius on Pleasure, Pain, and the Soul’s Passions, Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity: International Workshop on the Philosophy of Late Antiquity, University of Oslo, 1.–3. Dezember 2016.
38. The Doctrine of Spiritual Senses in Eastern Syriac Christianity: Its Foundations in Late Antique Alexandria and Its Influence on Byzantine Mysticism, AEMB - IXᵉ Edition des Rencontres internationales des doctorants en études byzantines, INHA/Université Paris Sorbonne, 7.–8. Oktober 2016.
39. Babai the Great and Dionysius bar Salibi on Evagrius’ Theory of Spiritual Perception, XIIth Symposium Syriacum – Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Rom, 19.-24. August 2016.
40. Feeling the Difference: Is the Syriac Reception of Evagrius Ponticus a Turning Point in Late Antique Christian Mysticism?, 18th OUBS Graduate Conference, Oxford, 26.-27. Februar 2016.
41. Aristoteles Syrus. Die Organon-Kommentierung in der syrischen Spätantike, SFB 980 ­– Episteme in Bewegung, Freie Universität, Berlin, 18. Februar 2014.
42. Mind, Brain, Firmament: Anatomical and Cosmological Analogies in Late Antique Gnosis and Mysticism, Fourth Dahlem Seminar in History of Science in Antiquity, TOPOI, Berlin, 28. Januar 2014.
43. Inside the Gnostic’s Mind: On the Transfigurative Function of Nous/Haunā in Manichaean and Eastern Syriac Religious Literature, Deutscher Orientalistentag, Münster, 27. September 2013.