Transcript Tree of Life

Tree of Life
Introduction
• Theōria
• Ephrem Syrus (the Syrian), 4th century;
see Sebastian Brock, The Luminous Eye:
The Spiritual World of St. Ephrem (1985;
republished Collegeville, MN: Cistercian
Publications, 1992)
• Gregory of Nazianus and Gregory of
Nyssa, fourth century – the Cappadocians
• Wesleyan Quadrilateral
Cross as Tree
• Irenaeus, Against Heresies
• xylon
• Genesis 40.19, Joshua 8.29, 10.26, etc.
Acts 3.31, 10.39, I Peter 2.24.
• Deuteronomy 21.22-3, 27.26.
• Gal.3.13.
• Justin, Dialogue with Trypho 86, Tertullian,
Against the Jews 10.
Two Trees
• Genesis 3.22-4
• Genesis 2.16-17, 3.2-3, 2.9.
• Peter Thacker Lanfer, Remembering
Eden. The Reception history of Genesis
3:22-24 (OUP 2012)
• Tryggve N. D. Messinger, the Eden
Narrative. A Literary and Religio-Historical
Study of Genesis 2-3 (Winona Lake,
Indiana: Eisenbrauns 2007)
• Epic of Gilgamesh
• Myth of Adapa
• Theodoret, Questions on Genesis, 5th
century
• Ephrem Syrus, Hymns on Paradise; ET
Sebastian Brock, published by St
Vladimir’s Seminary
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Proverbs 3.18, 11.20, 15.4, 13.12.
Psalm 1 & Matthew 7.17-20
Psalms of Solomon 14.3-4
Letter of Aristeas
Aramaic Targum Neofiti
I Enoch 10.18-22
IV Ezra 7.123 & 8.52
Revelation 2.7 & 22.1-2
• Irenaeus, Demonstration of the Apostolic
Preaching
• Hippolytus, Paschal Homily
The Tree in the Middle Ages
• The Tree. Symbol, Allegory and Mnemonic
Device in Medieval Art and Thought, edited by
Pippa Salonius and Andrea Worm (Turnhout,
Belgium: Brepols 2014)
• Annamieke R. Verboon, ‘The Medieval Tree of
Porphyry, an Organic Structure of logic.’
• Marie-Pierre Gelin, ‘Stirps Jesse in capite
ecclesiae: Iconographic and Liturgical Readings
of the Tree of Jesse in Stained Glass Windows.’
• Bonaventure, Lignum Vitae, ET in Classics
of Western Civilisation series.
• Pippa Salonius, ‘Arbor Jesse – Lignum
Vitae: The Tree of Jesse, the Tree of Life,
and the Mendicants in Late Medieval
Orvieto.’
• Ulrike Ilg, Quasi Lignum Vitae: The Tree of
Life as an Image of Mendicant Identity.’