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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-
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Sex and the City : Intercourse in Holy Week
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of early Christian studies (Print). - : Project Muse. - 1067-6341 .- 1086-3184. ; 28:1, s. 115-147
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The last days before Easter are called Holy Week or Passion Week in most Christian calendars. The early history of these pre-paschal days is, however, obscure, and their historiography leaves much to be desired. This is particularlytrue of Holy Week observance in late ancient Constantinople. Was there even something that could be called a Holy Week in the imperial capital? The relative silence of liturgical handbooks regarding these days have led some liturgical scholars to give a negative answer to that question. This article revisits the problem, but approaches it from a different angle: What do hymns written for the week before the celebration of the resurrection tell us? Focusing on Monday to Wednesday, the present study demonstrates that singers and congregations intoned remarkable and dramatic songs between Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday. Yet, rather than bewailing the imminent crucifixion or praising the resurrection, the hymnographers labored to read existential struggles of life and death in the sexual bodies of the congregated late ancientcity dwellers.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, et al.
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Sexuality and Orthodoxy : An Introduction
- 2022
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Ingår i: Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality. - New York : Fordham University Press. - 9780823299690 - 9780823299676 - 9780823299683 ; , s. 1-20
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Arentzen, Thomas, et al.
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Some Early Christian Trees
- 2021
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Ingår i: Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019 : Volume 1: Introduction; Historica - Volume 1: Introduction; Historica. - Leuven : Peeters Publishers. - 9789042947443 - 9789042947450 ; 104, s. 127-137
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the wake of the current environmental crisis, scholars of late antique Christianity are beginning to study Christian attitudes towards the natural world. How did the early Christians relate to their environment? This article explores perceptions of trees, surveying the writings of Tertullian, Basil of Caesarea, and Sozomen the historian. What did an arboreal plant do, according to patristic authors? What kind of agency did they imagine trees to have? The investigation shows that members of the educated elite might think of trees as bodies with living, intelligent souls; they saw complex variety and gendered creatures with personal characteristics when they gazed at beings in bark. Certain arboreal species engaged in and were communicating through a sexual-life; many individuals made rational choices. Although trees are not free to move around, Christians assumed that boughs and branches could bend in devotion as trees expressed attention to divine presence.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976-
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Songs about Women : [by] Romanos the Melodist
- 2024
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- At a time when Christianity was becoming the dominant religion in the Byzantine Roman Empire, Romanos the Melodist (ca. 485–565) was a composer of songs for festivals and rituals in late antique Constantinople. Most of his songs include dramatic dialogues or monologues woven with imagery from ordinary life, and his name became inseparably tied to the kontakion, a genre of dramatic hymn. Later Byzantine religious poets enthusiastically praised his creative virtuosity and a legend claimed that Romanos’s inspiration came directly from the Virgin Mary herself.Songs about Women contains eighteen works related to the liturgical calendar that feature important female characters, many portrayed as models for Christian life. They appear as heroines and villains, saints and sinners, often as transgressive and bold. Romanos’s songs offer intriguing perspectives on gender ideals and women’s roles in the early Byzantine world.This edition presents a new translation of the Byzantine Greek texts into English.
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- Arentzen, Thomas
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The Chora of God : Approaching the Outskirts of Mariology in the Akathistos
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies. - : Project Muse. - 2574-4968 .- 2574-495X. ; 4:2, s. 127-149
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the more-than-human characterization of the Theotokos in the famous Akathistos Hymn. The Mother of God emerged as an intercessional figure in the Christian imagination during late antiquity, but the formative period of mariology is still partly uncharted territory to modern scholarship. Reflecting on its rich landscape imagery and chora language, the article argues that the Akathistos minimizes the human traits of the Theotokos, rendering her more as a spatial phenomenon. In the hymn, we may glimpse traces of Marian ideas less developed during subsequent periods, ideas which gesture toward what we may call a "dark mariology." The Logos incarnates into more than human flesh, and the womb has a close affinity with the landscape. The Akathistos evokes the vision of a wider nonhuman participation in the incarnation rooted in the natural landscape of the Theotokos.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976-, et al.
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Wisdom on the Move : An Introduction
- 2020
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Ingår i: Wisdom on the Move: Late Antique Traditions in Multicultural Conversation. - Leiden : Brill Nijhoff. - 0920-623X. - 9789004430693 - 9789004430747 ; , s. 1-10
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, 1973-
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Bibelns samlevnadsideal
- 2007
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Ingår i: Frisinnad tidskrift. - 0345-3723.
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