Cohen's assessment is drawn largely from documents found in the Cairo Geniza, a tomb for sacred texts that was discovered at a synagogue in the late 1800s.
Philokalia, (Greek: "Love of the Good, the Beautiful"), prose anthology of Greek Christian monastic texts that was part of a movement for spiritual renewal in Eastern monasticism and Orthodox devotional life in general.
Green here presents a complete English translation of the so-called standardized Trotula ensemble, a composite form of the texts that was produced in the midthirteenth century and circulated widely in learned circles.
But it wasn't only criticism of our own texts that was important to us, it was equally important to be involved and discuss others' texts, for what this course was based on primarily was reading, learning to read, improving our ability to read.
But the memory comes back thanks to an on-again-off-again decision by the federal Bureau of Prisons: to purge prison chapel libraries of books excluded from a list of approved texts that was drawn up to protect against incitement to violence in this post-9/11 world.
Thus, the 'scholastic' treatment of authoritative texts that was to become characteristic of the Middle Ages had already started in the first century BCE.
