Rewriting Scriptures as a Homiletic Practice in Late Antique Egypt
The problems with the category "apocrypha" for classifying late antique texts have been noted, but the project of finding new terms for analyzing the texts has only begun. I argue that the compositional technique that scholars of Second Temple Judaism have labeled, "rewritten scriptur...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Journal of Coptic studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 23, Pages: 47-61 |
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| Summary: | The problems with the category "apocrypha" for classifying late antique texts have been noted, but the project of finding new terms for analyzing the texts has only begun. I argue that the compositional technique that scholars of Second Temple Judaism have labeled, "rewritten scripture", is a useful concept for examining texts produced in late antique Egypt. To illustrate the utility of borrowing the concept, I offer a case study on a maymar (homily) attributed to Theophilus of Alexandria concerning the first church ever consecrated, the Church of Mary in Koskam (Greek Koussai, Arabic al-Qūṣiyyah), Egypt. |
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| ISSN: | 1783-1512 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Coptic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/JCS.23.0.3289387 |