Selected Discourses of Shenoute the Great: Community, Theology, and Social Conflict in Late Antique Egypt - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107606675 ISBN 13: 9781107606678

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

English translations of the major works of Shenoute the Great (c.347–465), a foundational and controversial figure in Egyptian Christianity.

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About the Authors

David Brakke is Joe R. Engle Chair in the History of Christianity and Professor of History at Ohio State University. He is the author of Athanasius and the Politics of Asceticism (1995), Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity (2006) and The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity (2010). He is also editor and translator of Evagrius of Pontus: Talking Back: A Monastic Handbook for Combating Demons (2009).

Andrew Crislip is William E. and Miriam S. Blake Chair in the History of Christianity and Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of two books on healing and monasticism in late antiquity, Thorns in the Flesh: Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Egypt (2012) and From Monastery to Hospital: The Transformation of Health Care in Late Antiquity (2005), as well as numerous articles and essays on early Christian life and thought.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107606675
• ISBN 13: 9781107606678
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 342
• Editor: Brakke David