By M. Edwards, P Parvis, Hubert Young

Comprises experiences on Ezekiel's imaginative and prescient and the Hekhalot Mysteries, Ephrems Theology of Humour, Melkite Canticles to the Virgin, The Procession of the Spirit in Athanasius, Origen at the Foolishness of God, Gregory of Nyssa on Human cohesion and variety, and lots of extra. Contributions in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

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7 Linda Zagzebski, Virtues of the Mind. An Inquiry into the Nature of Virtue and the Eth ical Foundations of Knowledge (Cambridge, 1996); Lorraine Code, Epistemic Responsibility (Hanover, 1987); James A. Montmarquet, Epistemic Virtue and Doxastic Responsibility (Lanham, Maryland, 1993). 8 See Roderick M. Chisholm, The Problem of the Criterion (Milwaukee, 1973); W. Jay Wood, Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually Virtuous (Downers Grove, Illinois, 1998). 9 An oft-cited example is Aristotle, who assigns a prominent place to moral and intellectual virtues in his Nicomachean Ethics.

323 (§ 156), 'and make them shrines and holy tem ples, and may your Holy Spirit dwell in them'. 17. 'resting place (nydhdY: in early Syriac literature this term usually has reference to Christ23, and not to those being baptized. The basis for the present usage might be Isaiah 28:12, 'This is my rest (nydht(y)), give rest ( 'anih(w)) 21 On this, see my "The epikiesis in the Antiochene baptismal ordines', in I. ). Symposium Syriacum 1972, OCA 197 (Rome, 1974), pp. 183-218, esp. 199-200, and Winkler, 'Weitere Beobachtungen'.

See especially G. Winkler, 'Ein bedeutsamer Zusammenhang zwischen Erkenntnis und Ruhe in Mat 1 1 ,27-29 und dem Ruhen des Geistes auf Jesus am Jor dan', Mus 96 (1983), 267-326. An Archaic Syriac Prayer over Baptismal Oil 11 to the afflicted': Aphrahat, Dem. IV. 14, quotes the opening of this (with nydht(y)), but goes on to paraphrase, 'Perform the rest (nydheh) of God, ... give rest (anih) to the afflicted', and to identify this as constituting prayer. A further possible biblical starting point could be Isaiah 66:1-2, 'What is the house you are building for me, or what is the place of my rest (danydht(y))7...

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