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THE ROOTS OF EGYPTIAN CHRISTIANITY STUDIES IN ANTIQUITY AND CHRISTIANITY The Institute for Antiquity and Christianity Claremont Graduate School Claremont, California Editorial Board James M. Robinson, Director James E. Goehring Ronald F. Hock Rolf Knierim Burton Mack Edmund Meltzer Tova Meltzer Edward O'Neil Birger A. Pearson James A. Sanders Vincent Wimbush STUDIES IN ANTIQUITY & CHRISTIANITY THE ROOTS OF EGYPTIAN CHRISTIANITY Birger A. Pearson & James E. Goehring, editors FORTRESS PRESS PHILADELPHIA COPYRIGHT © 1986 BY THE INSTITUTE FOR ANTIQUITY AND CHRISTIANITY All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other wise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Main entry under title: The Roots of Egyptian Christianity. (Studies in antiquity and Christianity) Includes index. 1. Christianity—Egypt—Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Pearson, Birger Albert. II. Goehring, James E. III. Series. BR1380.R661986 281'.7 85-47736 ISBN 0-8006-3100-5 1739H85 Printed in the United States of America 1-3100 Contents Contributors vii Preface by James M. Robinson xi Foreword by Birger A. Pearson and James E. Goehring xvii Abbreviations xxiii PART ONE. Greek, Coptic, and Arabic Sources 1. The Discovering and Marketing of Coptic Manuscripts The Nag Hammadi Codices and the Bodmer Papyri James M. Robinson 2 2. Coptic and Greek Inscriptions from Christian Egypt: A Brief Review S. Kent Brown 26 3. Coptic Documentary Papyri as a Historical Source for Egyptian Christianity Leslie S. B. MacCoull 42 4. Coptic Literature Tito Orlandi 51 5. Arabic Sources for Early Egyptian Christianity Khalil Samir, S.J. 82 PART TWO. The Environment of Early Christianity in Egypt 6. The Socio-Economic Background of Christianity in Egypt Henry A. Green 100 v vi Contents 7. Mithra in Egypt Gary Lease 114 PART THREE. The Emergence of Christianity in Egypt 8. Earliest Christianity in Egypt: Some Observations Birger A. Pearson 132 9. Jewish Christianity in Egypt A.F.J.Klijn 161 PART FOUR. Theological Speculation and Debate 10. Theological Education at Alexandria Robert M. Grant 178 11. Jewish and Platonic Speculations in Early Alexandrian Theology: Eugnostus, Philo, Valentinus, and Origen Roelof van den Broek 190 12. Athanasius of Alexandria vs. Arius: The Alexandrian Crisis Charles Kannengiesser, S.J. 204 13. Anti-Chalcedonian Polemics in Coptic Texts, 451-641 David W. Johnson, S.J. 216 PART FIVE. Monasticism 14. New Frontiers in Pachomian Studies James E. Goehring 236 15. The State of Research on the Career of Shenoute of Atripe Janet Timbie 258 16. Monasticism and Gnosis in Egypt Armand Veilleux 271 17. The Manichaean Challenge to Egyptian Christianity Gedaliahu G. Stroumsa 307 Contributors S. Kent Brown Professor and Chairman, Department of Ancient Scripture Brigham Young University James E. Goehring Assistant Professor of Religion, Mary Washington College Fredericksburg, Virginia Robert M. Grant Carl Darling Buck Professor of Humanities Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature University of Chicago Divinity School Henry A. Green Director, Judaic Studies Program Associate Professor of Religion and Sociology, University of Miami David W. Johnson, S.J. Professor of Coptic Language and Literature Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. vii viii Contributors Charles Kannengiesser, S.J. Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology University of Notre Dame A. F. J. Klijn Professor of New Testament, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Gary Lease Professor in the Program of the History of Human Consciousness Kresge College, University of California at Santa Cruz Leslie S. B. MacCoull U.S. Representative of the Society for Coptic Archaeology Washington D.C. Tito Orlandi Professor of Coptic Studies, University of Rome Director, Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari Birger A. Pearson Professor of Religious Studies University of California at Santa Barbara James M. Robinson Arthur Letts, Jr., Professor of Religion, Claremont Graduate School Director, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity Khalil Samir, S.J. Professor of Christian Arabic Studies Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome Gedaliahu G. Stroumsa Lecturer, Department of Comparative Religions Hebrew University, Jerusalem Janet Timbie Ph.D. Graduate of the Department of Religious Studies University of Pennsylvania Contributors ix Roelof van den Broek Professor of Hellenistic Religions and Patristics Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht Armand Veilleux Abbot of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit Conyers, Georgia
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