The Coptic life of Aaron : critical edition, translation and commentary /
"The Life of Aaron is one of the most interesting and sophisticated hagiographical works surviving in Coptic. The work contains descriptions of the lives of ascetic monks, in particular Apa Aaron, on the southern Egyptian frontier in the fourth and early fifth centuries, and was probably writte...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden Boston :
BRILL,
2020.
Series:
Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements;
volume 155.
Vigiliae Christianae Supplements Online, Supplement 2019, ISBN: 9789004390980.
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Call Number: BX4662 .C67 2020
| Summary: | "The Life of Aaron is one of the most interesting and sophisticated hagiographical works surviving in Coptic. The work contains descriptions of the lives of ascetic monks, in particular Apa Aaron, on the southern Egyptian frontier in the fourth and early fifth centuries, and was probably written in the sixth century. Even though the first edition of this work was already published by E.A. Wallis Budge in 1915, a critical edition remained outstanding. In this book Jitse H.F. Dijkstra and Jacques van der Vliet present not only a critical text, for the most part based on the only completely preserved, tenth-century manuscript, but also a new translation and an exhaustive commentary addressing philological, literary and historical aspects of the text". |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9789004413016 |