Writing and communication in early Egyptian monasticism /

As senders of letters, copyists of literary texts, compilers of accounts, readers, and teachers, the monks of late antique Egypt articulated their interactions with their ascetic and secular environments via their role as authors, scribes, and owners of written text. This volume edited by Malcolm Ch...

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Other Authors: Choat, Malcolm., Giorda, Mariachiara.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

Series: Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity 09.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004327917.

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Call Number: BX137.2

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter /
  • Malcolm Choat and Maria Chiara Giorda
  • Avant Propos /
  • Lillian I. Larsen
  • Communicating Monasticism: Reading and Writing Monastic texts in Late Antique Egypt /
  • Malcolm Choat and Maria Chiara Giorda
  • Monastic Letters on Papyrus from Late Antique Egypt /
  • Malcolm Choat
  • From Textual to Ritual Practice: Written Media and Authority in Shenoute's Canons /
  • Paul Dilley
  • Monastic Wills: The Continuation of Late Roman Legal Tradition? /
  • Esther Garel and Maria Nowak
  • Writing Monastic Testaments: A Communication from Generation to Generation /
  • Maria Chiara Giorda
  • The Wisdom of the Wall: Innovation in Monastic Epigraphy /
  • Jacques van der Vliet
  • Writing and Monastic Doctrine /
  • Fabrizio Vecoli
  • Monastic Graffiti in Context: The Temple of Seti I at Abydos /
  • Jennifer Westerfeld
  • Biblical Recitations and Their Function in the Piety of Monastic Egypt /
  • Ewa Wipszycka
  • Indexes /
  • Malcolm Choat and Maria Chiara Giorda.