Saint Basil of Caesarea and Armenian Cosmology: A Study of the Armenian Version of Saint Basil's Hexaemeron and Its Influence on Medieval Armenian Vie

By R.W. Thomson

The Hexaemeron by St Basil of Caesarea was a fundamental source for Christian writers describing the nature of the physical cosmos, not least in Armenia, where scholars attempted to reconcile theories derived from Greek antiquity with the Bible. The first part of this volume is a survey of references to Basil in Armenian writers from

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042926287
• ISBN13: 9789042926288
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 289 Pages