The World of Early Egyptian Christianity: Language, Literature, and Social Context (CUA Studies in Early Christianity)
The World of Early Egyptian Christianity: Language, Literature, and Social Context (CUA Studies in Early Christianity)
edited by James E. Goehring and Janet A. Timbie by D. W Johnson
Catholic University of America Press, 2007 Cloth: 978-0-8132-1480-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8132-2050-5 | Paper: 978-0-8132-1579-2 Library of Congress Classification BR190.W67 2007 Dewey Decimal Classification 281.72
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
David W Johnson: Publications
Part One: Language and Literature
Tito Orlandi The Coptic Ecclesiastical History
Mark Sheridan Rhetorical Structure in Coptic Sermons
Monica Blanchard Sarabaitae and Remnouth: Coptic Considerations
Janet Timbie Reading and Re-reading Shenoute?s I Am Amazed:
More Information on Nestorius and Others
Leo Depuydt Questions and Related Phenomena in Coptic and in
General: Final Definitions Based on Boole?s Laws
Part Two: Social Context
Birger Pearson Earliest Christianity in Egypt: Further Observations
Daniel Boyarin Philo, Origen, and Rabbis on Divine Speech and
Interpretation
Robin Darling Young Cannibalism and Other Family Woes in Letter 55 of
Evagrius of Pontus
Philip Rousseau The Successors of Pachomius and the Nag
Hammadi Library: Exegetical Themes and Literary
Interpretations
James E. Goehring Keeping the Monastery Clean: A Cleansing
Episode from an Excerpt on Abraham of Farshut
and Shenoute?s Discourse on Purity
David Frankfurter Illuminatint the Cult of Kothos: The Panegyric on
Macarios of Tkew and Local Religion in Fifth-
Century Egypt
Bibliography
Contributors
Subject Index
Name Index