White Monastery Research Articles

Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery (review)

Rebecca Krawiec has revised her dissertation (Yale, 1996) and produced a study of very interesting material: letters written by Shenoute of Atripe (348-464 C.E.) to female monks within his domain after he became their leader. The work of Stephen Emmel in re-constructing Shenoute's works ("Shenoute's Literary Corpus," Ph.D. diss., Yale, 1993) made it possible to examine this material and glean the information it offers for the practice of communal asceticism among women in the Thebaid. Krawiec also builds upon the work of Susannah Elm whose Virgins of God (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994) is the rare work that examines Shenoute's conflicts with female monks. The letters are a rich source since they deal with specific problems and contain his painfully frank criticism of the women's behavior. However, this book is flawed by errors in translation, some due to reliance on flawed editions of Coptic texts, some due to grammatical misunderstanding, and some due to neglect of biblical allusions and quotations.

Un fragment copte sahidique sur papier de la Passion inédite de saint Kaou de Pamouï conservé au Musée du Louvre (inv. AF 12723)

The Museum of the Louvre conserves almost three hundred literary MSS in Coptic, most of which come from the White Monastery. The project of cataloguing the MSS has recently enabled several as yet inedited Coptic fragments to be identified. These include a paper folio, probably of the 11th-12th century, of the Passion of St. Kaou in Sahidic. The Passion is also found in various inedited Arabic versions, which obviously belong to the genre of epic Passions. The Louvre fragment contains a toponym hitherto unknown in Coptic and problematic in Arabic - the name of the village of Pamui - and its relatively precise location.

Coptic Manuscripts from the White Monastery: Works of Shenute. Vol. 1. Textband. Vol. 2. Tafelband. Dwight Wayne Young

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsCoptic Manuscripts from the White Monastery: Works of Shenute. Vol. 1. Textband. Vol. 2. Tafelband. Dwight Wayne Young Paul MireckiPaul Mirecki Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Near Eastern Studies Volume 57, Number 2Apr., 1998 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/468633 Views: 3Total views on this site Copyright 1998 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Book Review: Coptic Manuscripts from the White Monastery: Works of Shenute

Book Review: Coptic Manuscripts from the White Monastery: Works of Shenute

Coptic Manuscripts from the White Monastery: Works of Shenute

Coptic Manuscripts from the White Monastery: Works of Shenute

The Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari

The Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari is a project whose original aim was to reconstruct the Coptic codices from the White Monastery in Upper Egypt. The project was later expanded to include all Coptic literature. In 1980 a new project was launched to transfer the data into machine-readable form and make the information available, in as generic a format as possible, to scholars throughout the world.

‘The Power of Michael Protected Him’: A New Fragment of the Coptic Martyrdom of Apa Nahroou

This article describes item C47704, a fragment of a Coptic parchment codex, which can be identified as White Monastery Codex ET, containing a hitherto unattested part of the Martyrdom of Apa Nahroou. It is argued that the codex was probably manufactured at the Touton scriptorium in the Fayum in the tenth century and used by the monks at the White Monastery in Upper Egypt. The preserved fragment is a part of the narration of the torture of Apa Nahroou at the hands of emperor Diocletian, and seems to fit in as the first of the series of presently identified leaves of Codex ET containing this text. The present fragment attests to a typical Coptic Martyrdom account, and to the prominence of Michael the Archangel in the Coptic literary tradition. The article includes an edition of the Coptic text of the fragment with an English translation.

The Martyrdom of Cyriacus and Julitta in Coptic

In the description of the Coptic papyri in the University of Michigan collections published in Worrell's volume of Coptic texts,1 a small fragment listed under the inventory number 554 was cited as being perhaps part of an apocryphal apocalypse. In his review of the volume2 Crum suggested that it seems to be a passage from the much discussed 'prayer* embedded in the Acts of Cirycus and Julitta/'3 Later another small piece of the same text turned up in a mass of odds and ends of parchment and paper scraps from the bottom of the box in which the leaves of what have generally been called White Monastery manuscripts, Mich. MS. 158, had been received.4 At least one of these leaves has been determined with certain-