Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony

Like Isaac of Nineveh Hazzaya perceived prayer as a ladder, ‘which takes you up to the holy height’, and asserted that what he had in mind is not only prayer of the body, but that of the body and the soul. As man is composed of two parts, he elucidated, the body and the soul, so also prayer is not called prayer unless it is of the body and of the soul.

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Originally published in
The Ladder of Prayer and the Ship of Stirrings: The Praying Self in Late Antique East Syrian Christianity, Peeters, 2023.