The legacy of Demetrius of Alexandria (189 - 231 CE) : the form and function of hagiography in late antique and Islamic Egypt / Maged S. A. Mikhail.
Series: Routledge studies in the early Christian worldPublisher: New York Routledge, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 215 pages ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781138189324
- 1138189324
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | St Cyril's Theological Library Main collection | Hagiography | 270.1/MI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00389 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. I The genesis and evolution of a hagiographic program -- 1.The bishop and the scholar -- 2.Sources -- 3.Early imprints -- 4.Date and socio-literary setting of the Sahidic Coptic tradition -- 5.The encomium as hagiography -- 6.Hagiography across language and culture -- 7.Arabic recensions, amendments, and omissions: Emergence of the normative hagiography -- 8.Lent and Epact in Alexandria -- 9.Form, function, and meaning -- pt. II Texts: Demetrius's bio-hagiographic dossier -- Introduction to the translations -- Text I Earliest evidence -- Text II An encomium on Demetrius of Alexandria -- Text III Sirat (biography of) Demetrius of Alexandria: Primitive recension -- Text IV Eutychius's Nazm al-jawhar (The string of pearls) -- Text V Kitab al-tawarikh and the Chronicon orientale -- Text VI The Synaksar: Coptic-Arabic Synaxarium (thirteenth century) -- Text VII Abu al-Barakat's Musbah al-zulma (A lamp in the darkness) --
Contents note continued: Text VIII The Difnar (Antiphonarium) -- Text IX Doxologies and praises: Arabic and Bohairic-Coptic.
Includes translations from Arabic, Coptic and Greek.