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First in the Desert: St. Paul the Hermit in Text and Tradition
Series: - Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, Volume: 36
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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.
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).
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
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
The interdisciplinary scope of this publication makes it appealing to scholars, students as well as a general audience who are interested in Eastern Christianity, Cultural Memory Studies, Hagiography, and Anthropology.