The Hungry Are Dying
Subtitle: Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappadocia (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 25, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780195139129
First sentence: One morning in the sixth century, in a cave near the Jordan River, as Sisinius the monk was singing the liturgical office for "the third hour," a Saracen Christian woman entered his cave, took off her clothes, and lay down on the floor.
Description: "Ancient sermons about the poor have often been neglected by scholars in favor of more "theological" themes. Susan R. Holman helps to redress that neglect with this study, the first book-length treatment in any modern language to focus exclusively on a collection of sermons about poverty, starvation, and disease by three leading Christian bishops of late Antiquity: Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa."--BOOK JACKET.