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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.

Contributor(s): Goehring, James E, 1950- | Timbie, Janet | Johnson, D. W. (David W.), 1938-
Material type: TextTextSeries: CUA studies in early Christianity: Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2007Description: xix, 226 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780813215792 (pbk.); 081321579X (pbk.)Subject(s): Egypt -- Church history | Coptic Church -- HistoryBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-210) and indexes.
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.

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

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.

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