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Title 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
Published Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 226 pages)
Series CUA studies in early Christianity
CUA studies in early Christianity.
Contents Coptic ecclesiastical history: a survey / Tito Orlandi -- Rhetorical structure in Coptic sermons / Mark Sheridan -- Sarabaitae and remnuoth: Coptic considerations / Monica J. Blanchard -- Reading and rereading Shenoute's I am amazed: more information on Nestorius and others / Janet A. Timbie -- Questions and related phenomena in Coptic and in general: final definitions based on Boole's laws / Leo Depuydt
Earliest Christianity in Egypt: further observations / Birger A. Pearson -- Philo, Origen, and the Rabbis on divine speech and interpretation / Daniel Boyarin -- Cannibalism and other family woes in letter 55 of Evagrius of Pontus / Robin Darling Young -- Successors of Pachomius and the Nag Hammadi codices: exegetical themes and literary structures / Philip Rousseau -- Keeping the monastery clean: a cleansing episode from an excerpt on Abraham of Farshut and Shenoute's discourse on purity / James E. Goehring -- Illuminating the cult of Kothos: the Panegyric on Macarius and local religion in fifth-century Egypt / David Frankfurter
Summary "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."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-210) and indexes
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SUBJECT Johnson, David W. -- Bibliographie. idszbz
Johnson, David W. Philologe. swd
Subject Coptic Church -- History
SUBJECT Coptic Church fast
Koptische Kirche -- Geschichte -- Anfänge-0600 -- Aufsatzsammlung. idszbz
Subject RELIGION -- Christianity -- Orthodox.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Frühchristentum
Koptische Kirche
Vroege christendom.
Koptische Kerk.
Frühchristentum -- Ägypten.
Koptische Kirche -- Ägypten -- Geschichte Frühmittelalter.
Erbauungsliteratur -- Koptisch -- Geschichte -- Anfänge-0600 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Frühchristentum -- Ägypten (Altertum) -- Aufsatzsammlung.
SUBJECT Egypt -- Church history
Subject Egypt
Ägypten
Egypte.
Kopten -- Geschichte -- 0030-0600 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Kopten.
Genre/Form Festschriften
Church history
History
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Goehring, James E., 1950-
Timbie, Janet.
Johnson, D. W. (David W.), 1938-
ISBN 9780813220505
0813220505