- 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
The Coptic Life of Shenoute
The Coptic Life of Shenoute
- Chapter:
- (p.91) 9 The Coptic Life of Shenoute
- Source:
- Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt
- Author(s):
Gawdat Gabra
Hany N. Takla
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
The Coptic Life of Shenoute is best known in its Bohairic version. In Bohairic, a virtually complete version of the Vita Sinuthii, that is the Life of Shenoute, has come down to us. It gives an account of Shenoute's life from his birth to his death and is attributed to Shenoute's successor, Besa. This chapter argues that the Vita Sinuthii should not be regarded as a biography of Shenoute originating from a single text written by Besa. Rather, the texts known to us mark different stages in the text's development, from speeches of praise, delivered on the day of commemoration of Shenoute, to collections of episodes from Shenoute's life, many of which are surely the product of someone's pious imagination. It was only at some later stage of this process that the texts were attributed to Besa in order to give the work complete authority.
Keywords: Shenoute, Life of Shenoute, Vita Sinuthii, Besa, Bohairic
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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
