- Hardcover: 212 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press (8 Feb 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0520089111
- ISBN-13: 978-0520089112
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.3 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,848,990 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This study of Leontius of Neapolis fleshes out a broad picture of the religious, intellectual and social environment in which the "Life of Symeon the Fool" was created and opens a window onto the Christian religious imagination at the end of late antiquity. The book explores the concept of holy folly by relating Symeon's life to the gospels, to earlier hagiography and to anecdotes about Diogenes the Cynic.
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great inspiration for a new Christianity, 23 Feb 1999
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This review is from: Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius's Life and the Late Antique City (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) (Hardcover)
This book about the wise-fool saint Symeon was so inspirational to me that I've made a deeply personal vow to religiously observe July 21st by spreading all manner of golden chaos and absurdem as possibly befits and behoves me and my oceanic cult --Ark Spurting Blood; which observes the Dominator shipwreck as a religieous object cast out from the oceans stomach and which we consider to be possibly a great transporter of and for the flesh,and blood, and spirit of Saint Symeon when he arrived on the West coast (after ascension) to convert the Chumash natives-- who in return converted him to the Jimson weed Burning Wheel. A fine book ; that will truely bring forth the real inspiration of what Christ in his swarm wisdom was trying to get across to the ignorant hordes and disciples-- who in little moderation, got mislead through their lack of insight and veneration for truths outside their fears of insects and animals.
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