Inquiry About The Monks In Egypt

Author : Rufinus (of Aquileia),Rufinus of Aquileia
Publisher : Fathers of the Church Patristi
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813232645

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Inquiry about the Monks in Egypt by Rufinus (of Aquileia),Rufinus of Aquileia Pdf

From September 394 to early January 395, seven monks from Rufinus of Aquileia's monastery on the Mount of Olives made a pilgrimage to Egypt to visit locally renowned monks and monastic communities. Shortly after their return to Jerusalem, one of the party, whose identity remains a mystery, wrote an engaging account of this trip. Although he cast it in the form of a first-person travelogue, it reads more like a book of miracles that depicts the great fourth-century Egyptian monks as prophets and apostles similar to those in the Bible. This work was composed in Greek, yet it is best known today as Historia monachorum in Aegypto (Inquiry about the Monks in Egypt), the title of the Latin translation of this work made by Rufinus, the pilgrim-monks' abbot. The Historia monachorum is one of the most fascinating, fantastical, and enigmatic pieces of literature to survive from the patristic period. In both its Greek original and Rufinus's Latin translation it was one of the most popular and widely disseminated works of monastic hagiography during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Modern scholars value it not only for its intrinsic literary merits but also for its status, alongside Athanasius's Life of Antony, the Pachomian dossier, and other texts of this ilk, as one of the most important primary sources for monasticism in fourth-century Egypt. Rufinus's Historia monachorum is presented here in English translation in its entirety. The introduction and annotations situate the work in its literary, historical, religious, and theological contexts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 0813232651

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Inquiry about the Monks in Egypt by Anonim Pdf

Author : Malcolm Choat,Mariachiara Giorda
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004336506

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Writing and Communication in Early Egyptian Monasticism by Malcolm Choat,Mariachiara Giorda Pdf

The presence and practice of writing and modes of communication within late antique Egyptian monasticism is examined in a volume which addresses monks as letter writers, copyists, readers, and teachers, and the symbolic and spiritual value of the written word.

Author : Rebecca Krawiec
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198029618

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Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery by Rebecca Krawiec Pdf

This book depicts the lives of female monks within a monastery located in upper Egypt in the period 385-464 CE. During this period, the monastery was headed by a monk named Shenoute; thirteen of his letters to the women under his care survive. These writings are fragmentary, only partially translated, little studied, and written in difficult-to-decipher Coptic. Despite these problems, Krawiec has used the letters to reconstruct a series of quarrels and events in the life of the White Monastery and to discern some of the key patterns in the participants' relationships to one another within the world as they perceived it.

Author : Hedstrom, Darlene L. Brooks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781108672634

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The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt by Hedstrom, Darlene L. Brooks Pdf

Author : Andrew Cain
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198758259

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The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto by Andrew Cain Pdf

Winner of the Kayden Book Award The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto was one of the most widely read and disseminated Greek hagiographic texts during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. To this day it remains, alongside Athanasius' Life of Antony, one of the core primary sources for fourth-century Egyptian monasticism as well as one of the most fascinating, yet perplexing, pieces of monastic hagiography to survive from the entire patristic period. However, until now it has not received the intensive and sustained scholarly analysis that a monograph affords. In this study, Andrew Cain incorporates insights from source criticism, stylistic and rhetorical analysis, literary criticism, and historical, geographical, and theological studies in an attempt to break new ground and revise current scholarly orthodoxy about a broad range of interpretive issues and problems.

Author : Nadya Williams
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310147824

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Cultural Christians in the Early Church by Nadya Williams Pdf

In the middle of the third century CE, one North African bishop wrote a treatise for the women of his church, exhorting them to resist such culturally normalized yet immodest behaviors in their cosmopolitan Roman city as mixed public bathing in the nude, and wearing excessive amounts of jewelry and makeup. The treatise appears even more striking, once we realize that the scandalous virgins to whom it was addressed were single women who had dedicated their virginity to Christ. Stories like this one challenge the general assumption among Christians today that the earliest Christians were zealous converts who were much more counterculturally devoted to their faith than typical church-goers today. Too often Christians today think of cultural Christianity as a modern concept, and one most likely to occur in areas where Christianity is the majority culture, such as the American "Bible Belt." The story that this book presents, refutes both of these assumptions. Cultural Christians in the Early Church, which aims to be both historical and practical, argues that cultural Christians were the rule, rather than the exception, in the early church. Using different categories of sins as its organizing principle, the book considers the challenge of culture to the earliest converts to Christianity, as they struggled to live on mission in the Greco-Roman cultural milieu of the Roman Empire. These believers blurred and pushed the boundaries of what it meant to be a saint or sinner from the first to the fifth centuries CE, and their stories provide the opportunity to get to know the regular people in the early churches. At the same time, their stories provide a fresh perspective for considering the difficult timeless questions that stubbornly persist in our own world and churches: when is it a sin to eat or not eat a particular food? Are women inherently more sinful than men? And why is Christian nationalism a problem and, at times, a sin? Ultimately, recognizing that cultural sins were always a part of the story of the church and its people is a message that is both a source of comfort and a call to action in our pursuit of sanctification today.

Author : Stephanos Efthymiadis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317043959

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography by Stephanos Efthymiadis Pdf

For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography, inspired by the veneration of many saints, exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms. The subgenres into which it branched out after its remarkable start in the fourth century underwent alternating phases of development and decline that were intertwined with changes in the political, social and literary spheres. The selection of saintly heroes, an interest in depicting social landscapes, and the modulation of linguistic and stylistic registers captured the voice of homo byzantinus down to the end of the empire in the fifteenth century. The seventeen chapters in this companion form the sequel to those in volume I which dealt with the periods and regions of Byzantine hagiography, and complete the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. The book is the work of an international group of experts in the field and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of narrative. It highlights the literary dimension and the research potential of a representative number of texts, not only those appreciated by the Byzantines themselves but those which modern readers rank high due to their literary quality or historical relevance.

Author : A. J. Berkovitz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512824193

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A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity by A. J. Berkovitz Pdf

The Bible shaped nearly every aspect of Jewish life in the ancient world, from activities as obvious as attending synagogue to those which have lost their scriptural resonance in modernity, such as drinking water and uttering one's last words. And within a scriptural universe, no work exerted more force than the Psalter, the most cherished text among all the books of the Hebrew Bible. A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity clarifies the world of late ancient Judaism through the versatile and powerful lens of the Psalter. It asks a simple set of questions: Where did late ancient Jews encounter the Psalms? How did they engage with the work? And what meanings did they produce? A. J. Berkovitz answers these queries by reconstructing and contextualizing a diverse set of religious practices performed with and on the Psalter, such as handling a physical copy, reading from it, interpreting it exegetically, singing it as liturgy, invoking it as magic and reciting it as an act of piety. His book draws from and contributes to the fields of ancient Judaism, biblical reception, book history and the history of reading.

Author : Andrew Cain
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191075810

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The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto by Andrew Cain Pdf

The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto was one of the most widely read and disseminated Greek hagiographic texts during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. To this day it remains, alongside Athanasius' Life of Antony, one of the core primary sources for fourth-century Egyptian monasticism as well as one of the most fascinating, yet perplexing, pieces of monastic hagiography to survive from the entire patristic period. However, until now it has not received the intensive and sustained scholarly analysis that a monograph affords. In this study, Andrew Cain incorporates insights from source criticism, stylistic and rhetorical analysis, literary criticism, and historical, geographical, and theological studies in an attempt to break new ground and revise current scholarly orthodoxy about a broad range of interpretive issues and problems.

Author : Evan Powell Meredith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000618052

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The Prophet of Nazareth; Or, A Critical Inquiry Into the ... Character of Jesus Christ ... by Evan Powell Meredith Pdf

Author : Gawdat Gabra,Hany N. Takla
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781617977794

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Christianity and Monasticism in Northern Egypt by Gawdat Gabra,Hany N. Takla Pdf

Christianity and monasticism have long flourished in the northern part of Upper Egypt and in the Nile Delta, from Beni Suef to the Mediterranean coast. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from around the world, examine various aspects of Coptic civilization in northern Egypt over the past two millennia. The studies explore Coptic art and archaeology, architecture, language, and literature. The artistic heritage of monastic sites in the region is highlighted, attesting to their important legacies.

Author : Otto Friedrich August Meinardus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Coptic monasticism and religious orders
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119690431

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Monks and Monasteries of the Egyptian Deserts by Otto Friedrich August Meinardus Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004685055

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Looking In, Looking Out: Jews and Non-Jews in Mutual Contemplation by Anonim Pdf

Martin Goodman’s forty years of scholarship in Roman history and ancient Judaism demonstrates how each discipline illuminates the other: Jewish history makes best sense in a broader Greco-Roman context; Roman history has much to learn from Jewish sources and evidence. In this volume, Martin’s colleagues and students follow his example by examining Jews and non-Jews in mutual contemplation. Part 1 explores Jews’ views of inter-communal stasis, the causes of the Bar Kochba revolt, tales of Herodian intrigue, and the meaning of “Israel.” Part 2 investigates Jews depiction of outsiders: Moabites, Greeks, Arabs, and Roman authorities. Part 3 explores early Christians’ (Luke, Jerome, Rufinus, Syriac poetry, Pionius, ordinary individuals) views of Jews and use of Jewish sources, and Josephus’s relevance for girls in 19th century Britain.

Author : Paphnutius
Publisher : Gorgias PressLlc
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1607241420

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Histories of the Monks of Upper Egypt and the Life of Onnophrius by Paphnutius Pdf

Far from the Christian metropolis of Alexandria, removed from the well-known and much-visited monastic settlements of the Thebaid, and infintely remote from Rome, lay the garrison towns of Aswan and Philae. There Christians and pagans coexisted. Integral to the christian community on this desert frontier of Empire were the local monks-ascetics, intercessors, comtemplatives, and miracle workers.