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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786100703321

Titolo

The world of early Egyptian Christianity [[electronic resource] ] : language, literature, and social context : essays in honor of David W. Johnson / / edited by James E. Goehring and Janet A. Timbie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8132-2050-5

0-8132-1579-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

CUA studies in early Christianity

Altri autori (Persone)

GoehringJames E. <1950->

TimbieJanet

JohnsonD. W <1938-> (David W.)

Disciplina

281/.72

Soggetti

Egypt Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-210) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Abbreviations""; ""David W. Johnson: Publications""; ""I. Language and Literature""; ""1. The Coptic Ecclesiastical History: A Survey - Tito Orlandi""; ""2. Rhetorical Structure in Coptic Sermons - Mark Sheridan""; ""3. Sarabaitae and Remnuoth: Coptic Considerations - Monica J. Blanchard""; ""4. Reading and Rereading Shenoute�s I Am Amazed: More Information on Nestorius and Others - Janet A. Timbie""; ""5. Questions and Related Phenomena in Coptic and in General: Final Definitions Based on Boole�s Laws - Leo Depuydt""; ""II. Social Context""

""6. Earliest Christianity in Egypt: Further Observations - Birger A. Pearson""""7. Philo, Origen, and the Rabbis on Divine Speech and Interpretation - Daniel Boyarin ""; ""8. Cannibalism and Other Family Woes in Letter 55 of Evagrius of Pontus - Robin Darling Young""; ""9. The Successors of Pachomius and the Nag Hammadi Codices: Exegetical Themes and Literary Structures - Philip Rousseau""; ""10. Keeping the Monastery Clean: A Cleansing Episode from an Excerpt on Abraham of Farshut and Shenoute�s Discourse on Purity - James E. Goehring""

""11. Illuminating the Cult of Kothos: The Panegyric on Macarius and Local Religion in Fifth-Century Egypt - David Frankfurter""""



Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""General Index""; ""Index to Scripture""