The Coptic Life of Aaron

Critical Edition, Translation and Commentary
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41300-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 155, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 689 g

Reihe: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements

The Life of Aaron is one of the most interesting and sophisticated hagiographical works surviving in Coptic. The work contains descriptions of the lives of ascetic monks, in particular Apa Aaron, on the southern Egyptian frontier in the fourth and early fifth centuries, and was probably written in the sixth century. Even though the first edition of this work was already published by E.A. Wallis Budge in 1915, a critical edition remained outstanding. In this book Jitse H.F. Dijkstra and Jacques van der Vliet present not only a critical text, for the most part based on the only completely preserved, tenth-century manuscript, but also a new translation and an exhaustive commentary addressing philological, literary and historical aspects of the text.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vliet, Jacques van der

Dijkstra, Jitse

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Abbreviations

Introduction
1 Previous Scholarship
2 Manuscripts and Colophon
3 Language and Orthography
4 Structure and Narrative Levels
5 Genre, Author and Audience
6 Sources and Intertextuality
7 Historical Significance and Date
8 A Word on the Edition, Translation and Commentary

Text and Translation

Commentary

Bibliography
Index of Written Sources
Index of Names
Index of Egyptian Coptic Words
Index of Greek Loan Words
General Index
Figures

Über Autor(innen)

Jitse H.F. Dijkstra, Ph.D. (2005), University of Groningen, is Professor of Classics at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of numerous studies on Late Antique Egypt, including the monograph Philae and the End of Ancient Egyptian Religion. A Regional Study of Religious Transformation (298–642 CE) (2008).

Jacques van der Vliet, Ph.D. (1996), Leiden University, is endowed Professor of Religions of Ancient Egypt at Radboud University, Nijmegen, and guest researcher at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (Leiden University). He publishes widely on all aspects of Coptic literary culture. His most recent book is The Christian Epigraphy of Egypt and Nubia (2018).