Robert A Kitchen
Bob Kitchen is a retired minister living in Saskatchewan, Canada. He began Syriac study at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA; continued at Catholic University of America in Washington DC; and concluded under Sebastian Brock at University of Oxford UK.
He is primarily interested in translations - asceticism, monasticism, theological history and conflicts. He has published two long translations - The Book of Steps (Cistercian Publications 2004) with Martien Parmentier; Discourses of Philoxenos of Mabbug (Cistercian Studies 2013); and is currently working on the translation of Dadisho Qatraya, Commentary on the Paradise of the Fathers (Catholic University Press 202?).
He has taught at the Syriac Summer School co-sponsored by HMML/Dumbarton Oaks at St. John's University, Minnesota, and enjoyed not only teaching but discovering the breadth and depth of the Syriac language in the Byzantine Empire and its expansion eastward along the Silk Road into China.
He is primarily interested in translations - asceticism, monasticism, theological history and conflicts. He has published two long translations - The Book of Steps (Cistercian Publications 2004) with Martien Parmentier; Discourses of Philoxenos of Mabbug (Cistercian Studies 2013); and is currently working on the translation of Dadisho Qatraya, Commentary on the Paradise of the Fathers (Catholic University Press 202?).
He has taught at the Syriac Summer School co-sponsored by HMML/Dumbarton Oaks at St. John's University, Minnesota, and enjoyed not only teaching but discovering the breadth and depth of the Syriac language in the Byzantine Empire and its expansion eastward along the Silk Road into China.
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The seventeen papers that make up this collection deal with a similarly wide range of topics: the historical context of Persian-Roman rivalry and conflict, the relationship and influences of Manichaeism and magic upon the structures and conflicts with the Book of Steps, the metaphorical images of food, the discovery of a previously unknown citation of the Book of Steps in another patristic work, a challenge of the traditional view of the anonymous author, an extensive introduction to the methods of Biblical exegesis, studies of how the author interprets Genesis 1-3 and the understanding of sexuality in the community of the Book of Steps.
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Sources of the Christian Self: ACultural History of Christian Identity
, edit. James M. Houston & Jens Zimmerman (GrandRapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2018) 257-274.
The seventeen papers that make up this collection deal with a similarly wide range of topics: the historical context of Persian-Roman rivalry and conflict, the relationship and influences of Manichaeism and magic upon the structures and conflicts with the Book of Steps, the metaphorical images of food, the discovery of a previously unknown citation of the Book of Steps in another patristic work, a challenge of the traditional view of the anonymous author, an extensive introduction to the methods of Biblical exegesis, studies of how the author interprets Genesis 1-3 and the understanding of sexuality in the community of the Book of Steps.
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Sources of the Christian Self: ACultural History of Christian Identity
, edit. James M. Houston & Jens Zimmerman (GrandRapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2018) 257-274.
Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2014
pp. 205-220
Aaron M. Butts, Kristian S. Heal, and Robert A. Kitchen, Narsai: Rethinking his Work and his World (Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity 121; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020).