First in the Desert

St. Paul the Hermit in Text and Tradition
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-70221-9
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 740 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1157 g

Reihe: Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity

This volume invites the reader to a journey into the mystery that is St. Paul the First Hermit. Presented in nine language traditions that span ten centuries of transmission, Paul’s vitae are a case study in cultural fusion and diversity. Assembled here for the first time, they provide the scaffolding for the volume that offers a window into the world of Eastern Christianity that consists of deeply interconnected, diverse communities. We learn about churches and monasteries and libraries; about books and relics; about art and iconography; and about the place of St. Paul in various liturgical traditions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Agaiby, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Mark N. Swanson

List of Figures

List of Tables

Common Abbreviations

Contributors

Introduction

Lisa Agaiby

1 The Young Jerome, the Vita Pauli, and the Cave and Monastery of Paul the Hermit

William Lyster

2 The Latin Tradition

Marsha Dutton

3 The First Greek Tradition

Tim Vivian, with the assistance of Apostolos N. Athanassakis

4 The Second Greek Tradition

Tim Vivian, with the assistance of Apostolos N. Athanassakis

5 The Syriac Tradition

Robert Kitchen

6 The Bohairic Coptic Tradition

Tim Vivian, with the assistance of Maged S.A. Mikhail and Hany N. Takla

7 The Georgian Tradition

Thea Gomelauri

8 The Armenian Traditions

Andy Hilkens

9 The Copto-Arabic Tradition

Lisa Agaiby, with the assistance of Antonia St Demiana and Hany N. Takla

10 The Old Church Slavonic Tradition

Nebojsa Tumara

11 The Ethiopic Tradition

Robert Kitchen

Epilogue: The Travelling Memory of Paul

Katherin Papadopoulos

Appendix1: Table of Comparisons

Appendix2: Table of Theme Variations

Bibliography

Index of Manuscripts

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Agaiby, Academic Dean and Senior Lecturer in Coptic Studies at St. Athanasius College, University of Divinity, Australia. Her most recent publications are, with Tim Vivian, Door of the Wilderness: The Greek, Coptic, and Copto-Arabic Sayings of St. Antony of Egypt (Brill, 2022), with Mark N. Swanson and Nelly van-Doorn Harder (eds.), Copts in Modernity (Brill, 2021), and The Arabic Life of Antony Attributed to Serapion of Thmuis: Cultural Memory Reinterpreted (Brill, 2018).