The Sermo Asceticus of Stephen the Theban in Sahidic Coptic
Stephen of Thebes was an Egyptian ascetic author whose floruit must probably be placed to the late fourth or early fifth century. His writings have survived in Arabic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, and Greek. Additionally, part of his most widespread text, the Sermo asceticus, is preserved in some Gre...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2018]
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 69, Issue: 2, Pages: 628-673 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Stephanus, Thebanus, Sermo asceticus
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/ Coptic language
/ Sahidic language
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KBL Near East and North Africa |
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| Summary: | Stephen of Thebes was an Egyptian ascetic author whose floruit must probably be placed to the late fourth or early fifth century. His writings have survived in Arabic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, and Greek. Additionally, part of his most widespread text, the Sermo asceticus, is preserved in some Greek and Armenian manuscripts of the Apophthegmata Patrum. Stephen of Thebes's literary corpus has close connections with the ascetic literature of Lower Egypt, suggesting that he lived in the monastic communities from Scetis, Nitria, and Kellia. This essay offers the editio princeps of Stephen's Sermo asceticus in the Sahidic dialect of Coptic. The author suggests that the Sermo asceticus was originally composed in Coptic and translated later into Greek, from which derive directly or indirectly the Arabic, Ethiopic, and Georgian versions. The essay thus proposes that Stephen of Thebes should be considered one of the earliest authors of Coptic literature. |
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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/fly099 |