The Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite

This Handbook contains forty essays by an international team of experts on the antecedents, the content, and the reception of the Dionysian corpus, a body of writings falsely ascribed to Dionysius the Areopagite, a convert of St Paul, but actually written about 500 AD. The first section contains discussions of the genesis of the corpus, its Christian antecedents, and its Neoplatonic influences. In the second section, studies on the Syriac reception,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198810792
• ISBN13: 9780198810797
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 3.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.8" x 10.0"