- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 “Do not Believe Every Word Like the Fool … !” -
2 Some Aspects of Volume 8 of Shenoute's Canons* -
3 Care for the Sick in Shenoute's Monasteries -
4 Shenoute's Place in the History of Monasticism -
5 Pachomius and the White Monastery -
6 The Role of the Female Elder in Shenoute's White Monastery1 -
7 The Ancient Rules of Shenoute's Monastic Federation -
8 The Fate of the White Monastery Library -
9 The Coptic Life of Shenoute -
10 Shenoute as Reflected in the Vita and the Difnar -
11 The Relationship of St. Shenoute of Atripe with his Contemporary Patriarchs of Alexandria -
12 Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the Panopolitan Region Between Lykopolis and Nag Hammadi -
13 Monks and Scholars in the Panopolite Nome the Epigraphic Evidence -
14 Searching for Shenoute -
15 Biblical Manuscripts of the Monastery of St. Shenoute the Archimandrite -
16 Once more into the Desert of Apa Shenoute -
17 Bohairic Liturgical Texts Related to St. Shenoute1 -
18 Liturgy in the White Monastery -
19 Akhmim as a Source of Textiles -
20 Snapshots on the Sculptural Heritage of the White Monastery at Sohag -
21 The Triconch Sanctuaries of Sohag -
22 Two Witnesses of Christian Life in the Area of Balyana -
23 Toward an Understanding of the ‘Akhmim Style’ Icons and Ciboria -
24 Coptic Art During the Ottoman Period -
25 The Red Monastery Conservation Project, 2006 and 2007 - Abbreviations
- Bibliography
Shenoute as Reflected in the Vita and the Difnar
Shenoute as Reflected in the Vita and the Difnar
- Chapter:
- (p.99) 10 Shenoute as Reflected in the Vita and the Difnar
- Source:
- Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt
- Author(s):
Gawdat Gabra
Hany N. Takla
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
Everyone who is familiar with Coptic history and culture will have various associations with the name Shenoute. It is not surprising that this multilayered 4th-century personality has stayed alive through literary means, not only by his own writings, but also in works that want to be reminded of him. This chapter compares two of them in their statements about Shenoute: the Difnar and Shenoute's Vita, which had originally been composed in Sahidic by Shenoute's successor, Besa. It discusses the conceptions and expectations that are found in a text like the Difnar, pursues its literary tradition, and also portrays a possible source of the Difnar. This investigation is divided into three sections. After a short introduction to the Difnar the passages in the text are discussed, which are reproduced in the Vita and in the Difnar literally, or almost literally. In doing so, certain epithets have to be taken into consideration which are attributed to Shenoute. Subsequently, epithets and passages are compared which, although not literally identical, are of equal content, but which are still comprehensible on their own in the Difnar. Finally, allusions in the Difnar that presuppose knowledge of the Vita are referred to.
Keywords: Shenoute, Vita, Difnar, Coptic history, Besa
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 “Do not Believe Every Word Like the Fool … !” -
2 Some Aspects of Volume 8 of Shenoute's Canons* -
3 Care for the Sick in Shenoute's Monasteries -
4 Shenoute's Place in the History of Monasticism -
5 Pachomius and the White Monastery -
6 The Role of the Female Elder in Shenoute's White Monastery1 -
7 The Ancient Rules of Shenoute's Monastic Federation -
8 The Fate of the White Monastery Library -
9 The Coptic Life of Shenoute -
10 Shenoute as Reflected in the Vita and the Difnar -
11 The Relationship of St. Shenoute of Atripe with his Contemporary Patriarchs of Alexandria -
12 Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the Panopolitan Region Between Lykopolis and Nag Hammadi -
13 Monks and Scholars in the Panopolite Nome the Epigraphic Evidence -
14 Searching for Shenoute -
15 Biblical Manuscripts of the Monastery of St. Shenoute the Archimandrite -
16 Once more into the Desert of Apa Shenoute -
17 Bohairic Liturgical Texts Related to St. Shenoute1 -
18 Liturgy in the White Monastery -
19 Akhmim as a Source of Textiles -
20 Snapshots on the Sculptural Heritage of the White Monastery at Sohag -
21 The Triconch Sanctuaries of Sohag -
22 Two Witnesses of Christian Life in the Area of Balyana -
23 Toward an Understanding of the ‘Akhmim Style’ Icons and Ciboria -
24 Coptic Art During the Ottoman Period -
25 The Red Monastery Conservation Project, 2006 and 2007 - Abbreviations
- Bibliography
