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Selected Discourses of Shenoute the Great: Community, Theology, and Social Conflict in Late Antique Egypt
David Brakke
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Description for Selected Discourses of Shenoute the Great: Community, Theology, and Social Conflict in Late Antique Egypt
hardcover. English translations of the major works of Shenoute the Great (c.347-465), foundational and controversial figure in Egyptian Christianity. Num Pages: 384 pages, 7 b/w illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 3D; HBLA1; HRCC8; HRCM; HRCX8. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Shenoute the Great (c.347-465) led one of the largest Christian monastic communities in late antique Egypt and was the greatest native writer of Coptic in history. For approximately eight decades, Shenoute led a federation of three monasteries and emerged as a Christian leader. His public sermons attracted crowds of clergy, monks, and lay people; he advised military and government officials; he worked to ensure that his followers would be faithful to orthodox Christian teaching; and he vigorously and violently opposed paganism and the oppressive treatment of the poor by the rich. This volume presents in translation a selection of his ... Read more
Shenoute the Great (c.347-465) led one of the largest Christian monastic communities in late antique Egypt and was the greatest native writer of Coptic in history. For approximately eight decades, Shenoute led a federation of three monasteries and emerged as a Christian leader. His public sermons attracted crowds of clergy, monks, and lay people; he advised military and government officials; he worked to ensure that his followers would be faithful to orthodox Christian teaching; and he vigorously and violently opposed paganism and the oppressive treatment of the poor by the rich. This volume presents in translation a selection of his ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
338
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107022560
SKU
V9781107022560
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About David Brakke
David Brakke is Joe R. Engle Chair in the History of Christianity and Professor of History at Ohio State University. He is the author of Athanasius and the Politics of Asceticism (1995), Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity (2006) and The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity (2010). He is also editor ... Read more
Reviews for Selected Discourses of Shenoute the Great: Community, Theology, and Social Conflict in Late Antique Egypt
'The book includes footnotes, a valuable bibliography, and a useful index of names, subjects, maps, and figures. Brakke and Crislip's book is a modern and accurate translation of Shenoute's Discourses, so that it is an important contribution in the spirituality of Shenoute and his form of monasticism. Meticulously researched, this competent book provides a starting point for new investigations of ... Read more