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SELECTED DISCOURSES OF SHENOUTE THE GREAT
COMMUNITY, THEOLOGY, AND SOCIAL CONFLICT IN LATE ANTIQUE EGYPT |
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Professor David Brakke, Andrew T. Crislip |
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1107022568 |
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9781107022560 |
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
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9 December, 2015 |
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338 |
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English translations of the major works of Shenoute the Great (c.347-465), foundational and controversial figure in Egyptian Christianity. |
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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 sermons and other orations. These works grant us access to the theology, rhetoric, moral teachings, spirituality, and social agenda of a powerful Christian leader during a period of great religious and social change in the later Roman Empire. |
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7 b/w illus. 2 maps |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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