The Coptic life of Aaron : critical edition, translation and commentary
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The Coptic life of Aaron : critical edition, translation and commentary
(Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, v. 155)
Brill, c2020
- : hardback
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Note
Texts in Coptic with English translation
Bibliography: p. [271]-288
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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