1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967100203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

0-8132-2050-5

0-8132-1579-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

CUA Studies in Early Christianity Series

CUA studies in early Christianity

Altri autori (Persone)

GoehringJames E. <1950->

TimbieJanet

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

Disciplina

281/.72

Soggetti

Coptic Church -- History

Egypt -- Church history

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""

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965477703321

Autore

Rees John <1957->

Titolo

The algebra of revolution : the dialectic and the classical Marxist tradition / / John Rees

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998

ISBN

1-134-63927-9

1-134-63928-7

1-280-14382-7

0-203-98317-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Collana

Revolutionary studies

Disciplina

320.5315

335.41

335.4112

Soggetti

Dialectical materialism - History

Dialectic - 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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism; 1 Hegel's Algebra of Revolution; 2 The Dialectic in Marx and Engels; 3 The First Crisis of Marxism; 4 Lenin and Philosophy; 5 The Legacy of Lukacs; 6 Trotsky and the Dialectic of History; Conclusion Contradictions of Contemporary Theory; Index;



Sommario/riassunto

This text provides a single volume study of major Marxist thinkers' views on the crucial question of the dialectic, connecting them with late-1990s political and theoretical questions.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974575503321

Autore

Blake Cecil A

Titolo

The African origins of rhetoric / / by Cecil Blake

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-84058-X

1-282-15329-3

9786612153297

0-203-87552-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (157 p.)

Collana

African studies

Disciplina

808.0096

Soggetti

Rhetoric - Africa - History

Criticism

Postcolonialism

National characteristics, African

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue -- "The blackness without and the blackness within": the rhetorical construction of the African -- Rhetorical theory as background and context -- Africa in rhetorical scholarship -- Maat: the ethical grounding of the rhetoric of Ptah-hotep -- The rhetoric of Ptah-hotep -- From darkness to light -- Paradigmatic framework: postcolonial theory -- Epilogue -- Appendices.

Sommario/riassunto

Through a critical analysis of ancient African texts that predate Greco-Roman treatises Cecil Blake revisits the roots of rhetorical theory and challenges what is often advanced as the ""darkness metaphor"" -- the rhetorical construction of Africa and Africans. Blake offers a thorough examination of Ptah-hotep and core African ethical principles (Maat) and engages rhetorical scholarship within the wider discourse of African development. In so doing, he establishes a direct relationship



between rhetoric and development studies in non-western societies and highlights the prospect for applying