Translation, Controversies, and Adaptations at St Sabas Monastery during the Sixth Century

Augustine M. Casiday

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This article identifies two texts from St Sabas Monastery that give important information about theological crises that occurred there during the sixth century: Evagrius Ponticus’s Gnostic Chapters as well as the Book of Cassian the Monk. The importance of the monastery as a centre of spiritual and theological authority is explained, before our sources of information are critically surveyed. Counter to the arguments of their respective editors, I argue that the two texts studied here should be seen to correct the bias of a major source for information about the crises (Cyril of Scythopolis’s monastic lives), rather than to corroborate that bias.

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