The Coptic Life of Aaron: Critical Edition, Translation and Commentary (Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, Band 155) - Hardcover

Vliet, Jacques; Dijkstra, Jitse

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ISBN 10: 9004413006 ISBN 13: 9789004413009

Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2019

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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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Jitse H.F. Dijkstra, Ph.D. (2005), University of Groningen, is Professor of Classics at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of numerous studies on Late Antique Egypt, including the monograph Philae and the End of Ancient Egyptian Religion. A Regional Study of Religious Transformation (298-642 CE) (2008). Jacques van der Vliet, Ph.D. (1996), Leiden University, is endowed Professor of Religions of Ancient Egypt at Radboud University, Nijmegen, and guest researcher at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (Leiden University). He publishes widely on all aspects of Coptic literary culture. His most recent book is The Christian Epigraphy of Egypt and Nubia (2018).

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• Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9004413006
• ISBN 13: 9789004413009
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 330
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