Shenoute's Literary Corpus. By Stephen Emmel. 2 volumes. Pp. xxvi + 1006 (paginated continuously). Three plates. Tables and diagrams. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalum, 599–600 / Subsidia, 111–12.) Leuven: Peeters, 2004. isbn 90 429 1230 8 and 1231 6. Paper €125 (set)
For many students of early monasticism the writings of Shenoute remain an undiscovered country which we fear to explore for ourselves and know of only at second hand. Even the first monograph on Shenoute in English, Rebecca Krawiec's Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian Monas...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 700-702 |
Review of: | Shenoute's literary corpus ; 1 (Lovanii : Peeters, 2004) (Gould, Graham)
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Summary: | For many students of early monasticism the writings of Shenoute remain an undiscovered country which we fear to explore for ourselves and know of only at second hand. Even the first monograph on Shenoute in English, Rebecca Krawiec's Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2002) does not seem to have done much as yet to encourage wider awareness of the territory. But Stephen Emmel's immensely learned and painstaking reconstruction of Shenoute's literary corpus on the basis of the surviving White Monastery codices of his works is likely (and deserves) to change this situation considerably. |
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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/fli190 |