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| ==== Bosci or Boskoi; the Grazing Hermits. ==== | ==== Bosci or Boskoi; the Grazing Hermits. ==== | ||
| - | βοσκοί (Greek) Boskoi (E) = grazers or browsers; from bovskw, to graze, to feed. | + | * βοσκοί (Greek) Boskoi (E) = grazers or browsers; from bovskw, to graze, to feed. |
| + | * Boskoi = name of an [[augmented_foraging]] app we're creating for mobile phone. | ||
| On one of my explorations through hagiographic literature in the Central Library of Amsterdam, I came across a text which just mentioned a piece of very very odd behaviour, where early Christians literally joined the flock. | On one of my explorations through hagiographic literature in the Central Library of Amsterdam, I came across a text which just mentioned a piece of very very odd behaviour, where early Christians literally joined the flock. | ||
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| Near Nisibis there lived a group of Boskoi or grazing monks. When meal time came they took sickles and sallied forth to cut grass and on this they made their repast as if they were cattle. Others the so-called Dendrites lived in trees. | Near Nisibis there lived a group of Boskoi or grazing monks. When meal time came they took sickles and sallied forth to cut grass and on this they made their repast as if they were cattle. Others the so-called Dendrites lived in trees. | ||
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| + | Much like Kevin Butcher in 'Roman Syria and the Near East' p392: | ||
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| + | Some ascetics became boskoi, ' | ||
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| and the sickle also appears in this picture: [[http:// | and the sickle also appears in this picture: [[http:// | ||
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