GREEK HISTORIA MONACHORUM AEGYPTO OECS C

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-875825-9
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 678 g

The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto was one of the most widely read and disseminated Greek hagiographic texts during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. To this day it remains, alongside Athanasius' Life of Antony, one of the core primary sources for fourth-century Egyptian monasticism as well as one of the most fascinating, yet perplexing, pieces of monastic hagiography to survive from the entire patristic period. However, until now it has not received the intensive and sustained scholarly analysis that a monograph affords. In this study, Andrew Cain incorporates insights from source criticism, stylistic and rhetorical analysis, literary criticism, and historical, geographical, and theological studies in an attempt to break new ground and revise current scholarly orthodoxy about a broad range of interpretive issues and problems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cain, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Religiöse Institutionen & Gemeinschaften, Klerus, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: The Text

- Deconstructing the 'Lost Primitive Greek HM' theory

- Restoring the Primacy of G

- Syriac Translations of the HM

- Status of the Greek Text

- 2: Provenance, Date, and Authorship

- Provenance

- Date of Composition

- Candidates for Authorship

- Intentional Anonymity

- 3: Genre

- Itineraria

- Collective Biography

- Encomium

- Acta Martyrum

- Apophthegmata Partum

- Sui Generis

- 4: Literary Influences and Intertexts

- Classical Greek Literature

- The Bible

- The Life of Antony

- 5: Style

- Figures of Sound

- Figures of Repetition

- Figures of Redundancy

- Figures of Parallelism

- Figures of Imagery

- Other Figures of Rhetoric

- Prose Rhythm

- Conclusion

- 7: The New Prophets and Apostles

- Direct typology (Old Testament)

- Indirect typology (Old Testament)

- Indirect typology (New Testament)

- Indirect typology (Inter-Testamental)

- The HM as postbiblical Scripture

- 8: Characterization and the Unholy Other

- Pagans

- Syrian ascetics

- Manichaean heretics

- Conclusion

- 9: Through Them the World is Sustained

- Paradise regained

- Conservators of humanity

- Ministers of salvation

- 10: A Manual for Monastic Living

- Intended audience

- The monks as exemplars and teachers

- The monastic regimen

- Conclusion

- 11: Piety and Propaganda

- Evagrius in the HM

- Active vs. contemplative monasticism

- Pure prayer

- Apatheia

- Demons and impure thoughts

- Evagrius and his teachings in Rufinus Latin HM

- Conclusion

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Cain is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.