Description
Book Synopsis
The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is published annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies by Lockwood Press. The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is a Toronto-based nonprofit organization whose purpose is to bring together individuals interested in Coptic studies and to promote the dissemination of scholarly information on Coptic Studies through the organization of meetings and conferences and through the preparation of scholarly works for publication.
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Table of Contents
Editor's Note
Mark Sheridan Early Egyptian Monasticism: Ideals and Reality, or: The Shaping of the Monastic Ideal
Marc Malevez The Spiritual Reasoning of the First Wanderer Monks of Egypt
Mélanie Houle The Practice of Exorcism in Egyptian Monasticism: A Popular Panacea? On the Reconciliation of Hagiographical and Magical Texts
Jitse Dijkstra "I Wish to Offer a Sacrifice to God Today:" The Discourse of Idol Destruction in the Coptic Life of Aaron
Amir Harrak The Influence of Egyptian Monasticism on Mesopotamia
Nelly Van Doorn-Harder Coptic Popes in Context. The Future of the Religious Past: Negotiating Tradition and Transition
