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The Text of a Coptic Monastic Discourse on Love and Self-Control and its Story from the Fourth Century to the Twenty-First

Its Story from the Fourth Century to the Twenty-First [Paperback]

by Carolyn Schneider

Author
Carolyn Schneider
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Liturgical Press
Published
April 2017

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This book introduces a beautiful fourth-century Coptic discourse on love and self-control in its first English translation. The text's heading attributes it to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, but this attribution is questionable. Exploring issues of authorship and context, this book locates the origins of On Love and Self-Control in the Upper Egyptian Pachomian monastic community of the mid-fourth century. It then traces the various uses of On Love and Self-Control to the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, when the single surviving manuscript was copied as part of an anthology at the Monastery of St. Shenoute of Atripe. A partial reconstruction of this now dismembered codex is provided.