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Hymns Homilies Hermeneutics in Byzantium

Hymns, Homilites & Hermeneutics in Byzantium

Session One – Hermeneutics of Preaching The Homiletic Audience as Embodied Hermeneutic: Scriptural Interpretation as Psychagogy in the Preaching of John Chrysostom Professor Wendy Mayer John Damascene’s Homily on the Withered Fig Tree: Exegetical and Panegyrical Preaching in Interaction Fr Dr Damaskinos Olkinuora John Damascene on the Transfiguration of the Lord: Mystical Homiletic Performance and […]

Transformation of Mediterranean Ritual Spaces from Late Antiquity to the Early Arab Conquests: Material Evidence

By Leonela Fundic Macquarie University Over the period from the fourth to the beginning of the eighth centuries, sacred landscapes in the Mediterranean underwent fundamental changes, which were caused by (or were the reflection of) cultural and artistic interactions between different religions and their utopian ideals. Firstly, the expansion of Christianity and decline of paganism […]