Jacques van der Vliet, Jitse Dijkstra

The Coptic Life of Aaron

Critical Edition, Translation and Commentary

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers the first critical edition of the Life of Aaron, a Coptic hagiographical work describing monastic life at the southern Egyptian frontier in the fourth-fifth centuries, together with a new translation and a detailed commentary.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 168mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9789004413009
• ISBN-10: 9004413006
• Artikelnr.: 57702876

Autorenporträt

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).