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The Text of a Coptic Monastic Discourse on Love and Self-Control: Its Story from the Fourth Century to the Twenty-First Volume 272

The Text of a Coptic Monastic Discourse on Love and Self-Control: Its Story from the Fourth Century to the Twenty-First Volume 272

Schneider, Carolyn

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Series: Cistercian Studies, Book 272

Religion General CatholicismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0879070722
ISBN13: 9780879070724
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: Apr 28 2017
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

This book introduces a beautiful fourth-century Coptic discourse on love and self-control in its first English translation. The text's heading attributes it to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, but this attribution is questionable. Exploring issues of authorship and context, this book locates the origins of On Love and Self-Control in the Upper Egyptian Pachomian monastic community of the mid-fourth century. It then traces the various uses of On Love and Self-Control to the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, when the single surviving manuscript was copied as part of an anthology at the Monastery of St. Shenoute of Atripe. A partial reconstruction of this now dismembered codex is provided.

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