Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East

1. Literary Composition as a Religious Activity 2. Typology and Hagiography: Theodoret of Syrrhus's Religious History 3. Biblical Authors: The Evangelists as Saints 4. Hagiography as Devotion: Writing in the Cult of the Saints 5. Hagiography as Asceticism: Humility as Authorial Practice 6. Hagiography as Liturgy: Writing and Memory in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina 7. Textual Bodies: Plotinus, Syncletica, and the Teaching of Addai 8. Textuality and Redemption: The Hymns of Romanos the Melodist 9. Hagiographical Practice and the Formation of Identity: Genre and Discipline List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments