The Text of a Coptic Monastic Discourse On Love and Self-Control

The Text of a Coptic Monastic Discourse On Love and Self-Control
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Publisher : Liturgical Press
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9780879075262
ISBN-13 : 0879075260
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Book Synopsis The Text of a Coptic Monastic Discourse On Love and Self-Control by : Carolyn Schneider

Download or read book The Text of a Coptic Monastic Discourse On Love and Self-Control written by Carolyn Schneider and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a beautiful fourth-century Coptic discourse on love and self-control in its first English translation. The text’s heading attributes it to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, but this attribution is questionable. Exploring issues of authorship and context, this book locates the origins of On Love and Self-Control in the Upper Egyptian Pachomian monastic community of the mid-fourth century. It then traces the various uses of On Love and Self-Control to the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, when the single surviving manuscript was copied as part of an anthology at the Monastery of St. Shenoute of Atripe. A partial reconstruction of this now dismembered codex is provided.


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