Sitting in the Cell: The Literary Development of an Ascetic Praxis in Paul of Tamma’s Writings. With an Edition of Some Hitherto Unknown Fragments of De Cella
This article focuses on Paul of Tamma, a fourth- or fifth-century Egyptian author who wrote a series of ascetic texts, preserved only in the Sahidic dialect of Coptic. The first part examines the ancient sources concerning Paul of Tamma, which are exclusively hagiographic. Although they contain many...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2017]
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 68, Issue: 1, Pages: 141-171 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Paul of Tammah ca. 4./5. Jh
/ Asceticism
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KBL Near East and North Africa KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
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| Summary: | This article focuses on Paul of Tamma, a fourth- or fifth-century Egyptian author who wrote a series of ascetic texts, preserved only in the Sahidic dialect of Coptic. The first part examines the ancient sources concerning Paul of Tamma, which are exclusively hagiographic. Although they contain many unreliable elements, there is good evidence that Paul was a contemporary of the great Egyptian ascetics Shenoute, Aphu of Oxyrhynchus, Pshoi of Jeremiah, Apollo of Tetkooh, and Isidore of Scetis, who all lived at the end of the fourth and early in the fifth centuries. The article goes on to examine the manuscript evidence of the Asceticon of Paul of Tamma, identifying new fragments of his works. I propose that Paul originally wrote in Coptic, not Greek, and that his texts have literary contacts with the ascetic literature of the monastic centres of Scetis, Nitria, and Kellia. The article also includes an edition and English translation of a hitherto unknown Sahidic miniature manuscript of Paul of Tamma’s De Cella. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flx083 |