The world of early Egyptian Christianity language, literature, and social context : essays in honor of David W. Johnson /
The world of early Egyptian Christianity language, literature, and social context : essays in honor of David W. Johnson /
edited by James E. Goehring and Janet A. Timbie.
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, (c)2007.
- 1 online resource (xix, 226 pages)
- CUA studies in early Christianity .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Coptic ecclesiastical history: a survey / Rhetorical structure in Coptic sermons / Sarabaitae and remnuoth: Coptic considerations / Reading and rereading Shenoute's I am amazed: more information on Nestorius and others / Questions and related phenomena in Coptic and in general: final definitions based on Boole's laws / Tito Orlandi -- Mark Sheridan -- Monica J. Blanchard -- Janet A. Timbie -- Leo Depuydt. Earliest Christianity in Egypt: further observations / Philo, Origen, and the Rabbis on divine speech and interpretation / Cannibalism and other family woes in letter 55 of Evagrius of Pontus / Successors of Pachomius and the Nag Hammadi codices: exegetical themes and literary structures / Keeping the monastery clean: a cleansing episode from an excerpt on Abraham of Farshut and Shenoute's discourse on purity / Illuminating the cult of Kothos: the Panegyric on Macarius and local religion in fifth-century Egypt / Birger A. Pearson -- Daniel Boyarin -- Robin Darling Young -- Philip Rousseau -- James E. Goehring -- David Frankfurter.
"With increasing interest in early Egyptian (Coptic) Christianity, this volume offers an important collection of essays about Coptic language, literature, and social history by the very finest authors in the field. The essays explore a wide range of topics and offer much to the advancement of Coptic studies. Readers interested in the emergence of Christianity in Egypt and its later development in the Coptic Church will find much of interest in these pages."--BOOK JACKET.
9780813220505
Coptic Church--History.
Electronic Books.
BR190 / .W675 2007
Includes bibliographies and index.
Coptic ecclesiastical history: a survey / Rhetorical structure in Coptic sermons / Sarabaitae and remnuoth: Coptic considerations / Reading and rereading Shenoute's I am amazed: more information on Nestorius and others / Questions and related phenomena in Coptic and in general: final definitions based on Boole's laws / Tito Orlandi -- Mark Sheridan -- Monica J. Blanchard -- Janet A. Timbie -- Leo Depuydt. Earliest Christianity in Egypt: further observations / Philo, Origen, and the Rabbis on divine speech and interpretation / Cannibalism and other family woes in letter 55 of Evagrius of Pontus / Successors of Pachomius and the Nag Hammadi codices: exegetical themes and literary structures / Keeping the monastery clean: a cleansing episode from an excerpt on Abraham of Farshut and Shenoute's discourse on purity / Illuminating the cult of Kothos: the Panegyric on Macarius and local religion in fifth-century Egypt / Birger A. Pearson -- Daniel Boyarin -- Robin Darling Young -- Philip Rousseau -- James E. Goehring -- David Frankfurter.
"With increasing interest in early Egyptian (Coptic) Christianity, this volume offers an important collection of essays about Coptic language, literature, and social history by the very finest authors in the field. The essays explore a wide range of topics and offer much to the advancement of Coptic studies. Readers interested in the emergence of Christianity in Egypt and its later development in the Coptic Church will find much of interest in these pages."--BOOK JACKET.
9780813220505
Coptic Church--History.
Electronic Books.
BR190 / .W675 2007