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Table of contents :
1 Literary Composition as a Religious Activity 1
2 Typology and Hagiography:
Theodoret of Cyrrhus's Religious History 15
3 Biblical Authors:
The Evangelists as Saints 33
4 Hagiography as Devotion:
Writing in the Cult of the Saints 63
5 Hagiography as Asceticism:
Humility as Authorial Practice 94
6 Hagiography as Liturgy:
Writing and Memory in Gregory of Nyssa's
Life ofMacrina 110
7 Textual Bodies:
Plotinus, Syncletica, and the Teaching ofAddai 133
8 Textuality and Redemption:
The Hymns of Romanos the Melodist 159
9 Hagiographical Practice and the Formation of Identity:
Genre and Discipline 189
List of Abbreviations 199
Notes 201
Bibliography 259
Index 291
Acknovvledgments 297
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