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Episcopal Networks and Authority in Late Antique Egypt: Bishops of the Theban Region at Work

Episcopal Networks and Authority in Late Antique Egypt: Bishops of the Theban Region at Work

Dekker, R.

Hardcover

Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, Book 264

Ancient EgyptGeneral Christianity

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ISBN10: 904293560X
ISBN13: 9789042935600
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Apr 16 2018
Pages: 366
Weight: 2.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.80 Depth: 10.10
Language: English
In this book the author examines how two bishops in the Theban regioncontributed to the rise of a new, anti-Chalcedonian church hierarchy, which became the forerunner of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Abraham ofHermonthis (ca. 590-621) and Pesynthius of Koptos (599-632) areexceptional, since a large number of their professional documents(mostly in Coptic) is preserved. By applying Social Network Analysis tothese documents, the author reconstructed their individual socialnetworks and linked them to a wider regional network that was centeredon monastic communities in Western Thebes (west of modern Luxor), butalso included a large number of civil officials, clergymen and lay menand women. In addition, a social model of episcopal authority wasadopted, in order to evaluate how the bishops used their authority andto explain what made Pesynthius so extraordinary that he is stillremembered as a saint by the Coptic Orthodox Church.

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