Basil Lourié (b.1962), scholar

Basil Lourié is a Russian scholar.

Biography

Born in 1962, St Petersburg, Russia. PhD and Dr habil. in philosophy. Editor in Chief of the Scrinium. Revue de patrologie, d'hagiographie critique et d'histoire ecclésiastique

http://scrinium.ru published by Gorigais Press http://www.gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/c-126-scrinium-revue-de-patrologie-dhagiographie-critique-et-dhistoire-ecclsiastique-1817-7530.aspx

and of its two supplement series:

Orientalia Judaica Christiana http://www.gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/c-104-orientalia-judaica-christiana-1942-1281.aspx

and Scripta ecclesiastica http://www.amazon.com/Churches-Dedicated-Clement-Medieval-ECCLESIASTICA/dp/590141067X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282734611&sr=1-1

Books in Russian:

1. Gregory of Nyssa, De hominis opificio (1995; 2nd ed., 2000) (tr. and scholarly commentary). http://www.axioma.spb.ru/edition/5-93403-004-3/blurb

2. "Vocation of Abraham. The Idea of the Monasticism and Its Realization in Egypt" (2000).

3. History of the Byzantine Philosophy. Formative period (2006) http://www.axioma.spb.ru/z_byz_phil/intro.htm (some fragments on the publisher's web-site).

Serbian translation (2010): http://ikzs.com/index.php?stranica=opis&knjiga=349

4. Introduction to the Critical Hagiography (2009) http://www.axioma.spb.ru/edition/978-5-90141-069-1/blurb

5. Russian Orthodoxy between Kiev and Moscow (2009; 2nd ed., 2010) http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/4429435/

Interests: Patristics, Christian Origins/Second Temple Judaism(s)

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Edited volumes

• (with Andrei A. Orlov). The Theophaneia School: Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism (St Petersburg, 2007; 2nd ed.: Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2009) http://www.amazon.com/Theophaneia-School-Basil-Louri%C3%A9/dp/1607240831/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1

• (with Andrei A. Orlov, Madeleine Petit). Église des deux Alliances. Mémorial Annie Jaubert (1912–1980) (Orientalia Judaica Christiana, 1; Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2008) http://www.amazon.com/L%C3%A9glise-Alliances-Orientalia-Judaica-Christiana/dp/1593330839/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_6

Articles

• Святая Чаша в раннехристианских чинопоследованиях домашнего причащения (с замечанием о коптском чине Исполнения Чаши) [The Holy Chalice in the Early Christian Rites of the Home Communion (with a Note on the Coptic Rite of the Filling of Chalice)], in: Средневековое православие. От прихода до патриархата. Сборник научных статей. Вып. 2 / Отв. ред. Н. Д. Барабанов. Волгоград: Изд-во Волгоградского университета, 1998. 4—29.

• Цитата из Папия в составе армянской версии Толкования на Апокалипсис св. Андрея Кесарийского [Papias' Quotation in the Armenian Version of the Commentary on Apocalypse by St Andrew of Caesarea], in: Писания мужей апостольских / Составление… А. Г. Дунаева. М.: Издательский Совет Русской Православной Церкви, 2003 (Творения святых отцов и учителей Церкви) 511—532. [2nd ed.: 2008.]

• Чаша Соломона и скиния на Сионе. Часть 1. Надпись на Чаше Соломона: текст и контекст [The Chalice of Solomon and the Tabernacle on Sion. Part One: Inscription on the Chalice of Solomon: text and context], Byzantinorossica / Византинороссика 3 (2005): Истоки и последствия: Византийское наследие на Руси. Сборник статей к 70-летию члена-корреспондента РАН И. П. Медведева / Под ред. К. К. Акентьева. 8—74. On-line publication at http://byzantinorossica.org.ru/ser_br_v3.html

• Annie Jaubert et les études de l’Orient Chrétien, in: M. Petit, B. Lourié, A. Orlov (éds.), Église des deux Alliances : Mémorial Annie Jaubert (1912—1980) (Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2008) (Orientalia Judaica Christiana, 1) p. XXIX-XXXIX.

• Les quatre jours « de l’intervalle » : une modification néotestamentaire et chrétienne du calendrier de 364 jours, in: M. Petit, B. Lourié, A. Orlov (éds.), Église des deux Alliances : Mémorial Annie Jaubert (1912—1980) (Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2008) (Orientalia Judaica Christiana, 1) 103–133.

• [Review:] James C. VanderKam, Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls : Measuring Time (London and New York, 1998) (The Literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls) // Христианский Восток. 4 (Х) (2002) [изд. 2006] 590—591 (in Russian).

• [Review:] Alexander Kulik, Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha: Toward the Original of the Apocalypse of Abraham, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 15/3 (2006) 229-233.

• Метатрон и Прометая: Вторая книга Еноха на перекрестке проблем. Размышления по поводу книги: Andrei A. Orlov, The Enochic-Metratron Tradition (Tübingen, 2005), Scrinium. Revue de patrologie, d’hagiographie critique et d’histoire ecclésiastique 2 (2006) 371—407 (in Russian).

• Theophaneia School: Экфрасис Небесного Храма, Scrinium. Revue de patrologie, d’hagiographie critique et d’histoire ecclésiastique 3 (2007) ix–xii ; [English translation:] The Theophaneia School: An Ekphrasis of the Heavenly Temple, ibid., xii–xvi.

• Calendrical Implications in the Epistle to the Hebrews: Seven questions concerning the liturgy of the Sabbath rest, Revue biblique 115-2 (2008) 245–265.

• Courts of Solomon, A Jewish Collection, Scrinium. Revue de patrologie, d’hagiographie critique et d’histoire ecclésiastique 5 (2009) 353–363.|

• Slavonic Texts of Hard Fate: the Prophecy of Solomon and Some Others, Scrinium. Revue de patrologie, d’hagiographie critique et d’histoire ecclésiastique 5 (2009) 364–390.

• Between Babylonia and Ethiopia: Some Thought about a Recent Book on the Qumranic Calendars (Jonathan Ben-Dov, Head of All Years. Astronomy and Calendars at Qumran and Their Ancient Context) // Scrinium. Revue de patrologie, d’hagiographie critique et d’histoire ecclésiastique 6 (2010) 413–432.

External links

Basil Lourié on Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Basil-Louri%C3%A9/e/B003ZXLXSW/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_6?qid=1282738851&sr=1-6 (most of the edited volumes with function "Look inside")