The Canons of Our Fathers: Monastic Rules of Shenoute
Author:   Bentley Layton (Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198785194


Pages:   376
Publication Date:   09 October 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Bentley Layton (Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.568kg
ISBN:  

9780198785194


ISBN 10:   0198785194
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   09 October 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I: The Nature of the Rules Introduction 1: The Historical Context of the Rules 2: The Corpus of Monastic Rules 3: Monastic Life as seen in the Rules 4: Monastic Experience and Monastic Rules Subject Index to Part I Index of Rule Numbers cited in Part II II: Corpus of Monastic Rules Abbreviations for Libraries and Museums Holding the Coptic Manuscripts Editorial Signs The Rules, Edited and Translated Concordance of Manuscript References and Rule Numbers

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the book is an extremely valuable addition to scholarship on Coptic Christianity in late antiquity. H. Clifton Ward, Ancient Christians Studies


This work presents a tremendous advance in the history of monasticism and the history of Christianity by one of the most learned scholars of Shenoute. --Marginalia This book is an extremely valuable addition to scholarship on Coptic Christianity in late antiquity... His reconstruction of the life found in the White Monastery Federation in accordance with the rules of Shenoute is clear and compelling. -- Fides et Humilitas


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Bentley Layton was educated at Harvard University and taught for five years in Jerusalem at the Ecole biblique et archeologique francaise. He worked in Cairo with UNESCO Technical Subcommittee to reconstruct the Coptic Gnostic manuscripts of Nag Hammadi and then taught at Yale University, where he was appointed to the Goff Professorship of Religious Studies. He is the recipient of fellowships from American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Guggenheim Foundation and past President of the International Association of Coptic Studies.

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