Canons of Our Fathers - Monastic Rules of Shenoute

Zusatztext the book is an extremely valuable addition to scholarship on Coptic Christianity in late antiquity. Informationen zum Autor Bentley Layton was educated at Harvard University and taught for five years in Jerusalem at the École biblique et archéologique française. He worked in Cairo with UNESCO Technical Subcommittee to reconstruct the Coptic Gnostic manuscripts of Nag Hammadi and then taught at Yale University, where he was appointed to the Goff Professorship of Religious Studies. He is the recipient of fellowships from American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Guggenheim Foundation and past President of the International Association of Coptic Studies. Klappentext This book is the first publication of a very early set of Christian monastic rules from Roman Egypt, accompanied by four preliminary chapters discussing their historical and social context and their character as rules. These rules were found quoted in the writings of the great Egyptian monastic leader Shenoute. Zusammenfassung This book is the first publication of a very early set of Christian monastic rules from Roman Egypt, accompanied by four preliminary chapters discussing their historical and social context and their character as rules. These rules were found quoted in the writings of the great Egyptian monastic leader Shenoute. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface I: The Nature of the Rules Introduction 1: The Historical Context of the Rules 2: The Corpus of Monastic Rules 3: Monastic Life as seen in the Rules 4: Monastic Experience and Monastic Rules Subject Index to Part I Index of Rule Numbers cited in Part II II: Corpus of Monastic Rules Abbreviations for Libraries and Museums Holding the Coptic Manuscripts Editorial Signs The Rules, Edited and Translated Concordance of Manuscript References and Rule Numbers

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• Authors: Bentley Layton, Bentley (Professor of Religious Studies an Layton, Bentley (Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Layton, Layton Bentley
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.09.2014
• EAN: 9780199582631
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958263-1
• No. of pages: 378
• Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies; Oxford Early Christian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Egypt, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Monasticism, Christianity, History of Religion, Ancient Rome, BCE to c 500 CE, The Early Church, BCE period – Protohistory, Religious communities and monasticism, Christian communities & monasticism