Shenoutes Literary Corpus

Author : Stephen Emmel
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042912304
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shenoute's Literary Corpus written by Stephen Emmel and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T.111 Shenoute's Literary Corpus. Volume One. -- t.112 Shenoute's Literary Corpus. Volume Two.

Author : Stephen Lewis Emmel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shenoute's Literary Corpus written by Stephen Lewis Emmel and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Emmel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789042912311
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Nina G. Garsoïan
Publisher : Peeters
ISBN 13 : 9789042925168
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interregnum written by Nina G. Garsoïan and published by Peeters. This book was released on 2012 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armenian mediaeval historians, who have concentrated primarily on political high points, have tended to dismiss the more than four centuries dividing the two royal epochs of the Arsacids (ending, A.D. 428) and the Bagratids (inaugurated with the coronation of Ashot I, A.D. 884), as a 'Dark Age'. The intention of the present study, on the contrary, is to attempt the examination of a portion of the 'Interregnum' (600-750) as a period of religious synthesis and social renewal, as well as of intellectual and particularly artistic effervescence. In such an interpretation, the 'Interregnum', despite the unfavourable nature of its exterior and interior political setting, becomes the hypothetical locus during which, the identity of Armenia seems to have been forged, as that of a nation existing outside the framework of a political state. Consequently, the purpose of the present investigation is to eschew a political approach, which has proved at best episodic and fragmentary, in order to seek, in a period devoid of a centralized state, a different explanation for the continuous survival of 'Armenia', in spite of the numerous vicissitudes of its tumultuous history.

Author : Ariel G. Lopez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520274830
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty written by Ariel G. Lopez and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shenoute of Atripe: stern abbot, loquacious preacher, patron of the poor and scourge of pagans in fifth-century Egypt. This book studies his numerous Coptic writings and finds them to be the most important literary source for the study of society, economy and religion in late antique Egypt. The issues and concerns Shenoute grappled with on a daily basis, Ariel Lopez argues, were not local problems, unique to one small corner of the ancient world. Rather, they are crucial to interpreting late antiquity as a historical period—rural patronage, religious intolerance, the Christian care of the poor and the local impact of the late Roman state. His little known writings provide us not only with a rare opportunity to see the life of a holy man as he himself saw it, but also with a privileged window into his world. Lopez brings Shenoute to prominence as witness of and participant in the major transformations of his time.

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316445100
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Discourses of Shenoute the Great written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shenoute the Great (c.347–465) led one of the largest Christian monastic communities in late antique Egypt and was the greatest native writer of Coptic in history. For approximately eight decades, Shenoute led a federation of three monasteries and emerged as a Christian leader. His public sermons attracted crowds of clergy, monks, and lay people; he advised military and government officials; he worked to ensure that his followers would be faithful to orthodox Christian teaching; and he vigorously and violently opposed paganism and the oppressive treatment of the poor by the rich. This volume presents in translation a selection of his sermons and other orations. These works grant us access to the theology, rhetoric, moral teachings, spirituality, and social agenda of a powerful Christian leader during a period of great religious and social change in the later Roman Empire.

Author : David BRAKKE
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674028651
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demons and the Making of the Monk written by David BRAKKE and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this finely written study of demonology and Christian spirituality in fourth- and fifth-century Egypt, David Brakke examines how the conception of the monk as a holy and virtuous being was shaped by the combative encounter with demons. Drawing on biographies of exceptional monks, collections of monastic sayings and stories, letters from ascetic teachers to their disciples, sermons, and community rules, Brakke crafts a compelling picture of the embattled religious celibate.

Author : Francesco Chiabotti
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004335137
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Spirituality in Islam written by Francesco Chiabotti and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the relation between ethics and spirituality in Islam through an examination of the genres of Sufi adab, including manuals and hagiographical accounts, from the formative period of Sufism until modernity.

Author : Alberto Camplani
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042918320
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Power and Conflicts of Authority in Late-antique Monasticism written by Alberto Camplani and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume offers the acts of a meeting held at the University of Turin on the foundations of power and the conflicts of authority as documented by the monastic sources of East and West in Late Antiquity, with special reference to Max Weber's analysis of these notions. The issue is here examined from a variety of perspectives: the different meanings of power and authority in ancient monastic sources; the criteria by which authority is established within the monastic organizations; the kind of power and authority exercised towards outsiders; the relationship between monks and other authorities, especially the Church; the monks and their economic activity; the strategies for the solution of conflicts. The wide range of historical and cultural problems raised by these questions is what the present volume tries to illuminate through individual studies of a number of specific phenomena, events, and figures (from Shenute to John Cassian, from Abraham of Kashkar to Maxim the Confessor), paying particular attention to monasticism in Egypt, Palestine, Africa, and Persia.

Author : Hugo Lundhaug
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161541728
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices written by Hugo Lundhaug and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott offer a sustained argument for the monastic provenance of the Nag Hammadi Codices. They examine the arguments for and against a monastic Sitz im Leben and defend the view that the Codices were produced and read by Christian monks, most likely Pachomians, in the fourth- and fifth-century monasteries of Upper Egypt. Eschewing the modern classification of the Nag Hammadi texts as “Gnostic,” the authors approach the codices and their ancient owners from the perspective of the diverse monastic culture of late antique Egypt and situate them in the context of the ongoing controversies over extra-canonical literature and the theological legacy of Origen. Through a combination of sources, including idealized hagiographies, travelogues, monastic rules and exhortations, and the more quotidian details revealed in documentary papyri, manuscript collections, and archaeology, monasticism in the Thebaid is brought to life, and the Nag Hammadi codices situated within it. The cartonnage papyri from the leather covers of the codices, which bear witness to the monastic culture of the region, are closely examined, while scribal and codicological features of the codices are analyzed and compared with contemporary manuscripts from Egypt. Special attention is given to the codices’ scribal notes and colophons which offer direct evidence of their producers and users. The study ultimately reveals the Nag Hammadi Codices as a collection of books completely at home in the monastic manuscript culture of late antique Egypt."--