Those for Whom the Lamp Shines (eBook)

The Making of Egyptian Ethnic Identity in Late Antiquity

Vince L. Bantu (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
288 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520388826 (ISBN)

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In Those for Whom the Lamp Shines, Vince L. Bantu uses the rich body of anti-Chalcedonianliterature to explore how the peoples of Egypt, both inside and outside the Coptic Church, came tounderstand their identity as Egyptians. Working across a comparative spectrum of traditionsand communities in late antiquity, at the intersection of religious and other social forms ofidentity, Bantu shows that it was the dissenting doctrines of the Coptic Church that played thecrucial role in conceptualizing Egypt and being Egyptian. Based on the study of neglected Coptic andSyriac texts, Those for Whom the Lamp Shines offers the only sustained treatment of ethnic andreligious self-understanding in Africa's oldest Christian church.

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Contents

Acknowledgments 

1 • Egyptian Ethnicity in Late Antiquity 
2 • Egyptian Christians and Ethnicity Prior to Chalcedon 
3 • Aftermath of Chalcedon 
4 • Response to Justinian 
5 • Identity Formation Under Islam 
6 • Egyptian Identity from Outside Perspectives 
Conclusion: Miaphysite Christology as Identity Boundary 

Notes 
Bibliography 
Index 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.9.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: Alexandria • ascetics • Byzantine Empire • Chalcedonian schism • Christology • Community • Egyptian Christian ethnic identity in late antiquity • Ethnicity • martyrdom • Miaphysite movement • Minority Language • Monastery • Orthodoxy • Pbow • Roman imperial culture
• ISBN-13: 9780520388826 / 9780520388826