The Canons of Our Fathers: Monastic Rules of Shenoute (Oxford Early Christian Studies)

This book is the first publication of a very early collection of Christian monastic rules from Roman Egypt. Designed for the so-called White Monastery Federation, a community of monks and nuns who banded together about 360 CE, the rules are quoted by the great monastic leader Shenoute of Atripe in his writings of the fourth and fifth century. These rules provide new and intimate access to the earliest phases of Christian communal (cenobitic) monasticism. In this volume, Bentley Layton presents for the first time the Coptic text of the rules, amounting to five hundred and ninety-five entries, accompanied by a clear and exact English translation. Four preliminary chapters discuss the character of the rules in their historical and social context, and present new evidence for the founding of the monastic federation. From passing remarks in the rules, Layton paints a brilliant picture of monastic daily life and ascetic practice, organized around six general topics: the monastery as a physical plant, the human makeup of the community, the pattern of ascetic observances, the hierarchy of authority, the daily liturgy, and monastic economic life. The Canons of Our Fathers will be a fundamental resource for readers interested in Christian life in late antiquity, ascetic practices, and the history of monasticism in all its forms.

History

Layton, Bentley

Ancient Civilizations

Oxford University Press

This definitive introduction to the gnostic scriptures provides a crucial look at the theology, religious atmosphere, and literary traditions of ancient Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism.

The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library)

World

Yale University Press

Bentley Layton's The Gnostic Scriptures is the one indispensable book for the understanding of Gnosis and Gnosticism. No other translations are within light-years of Layton's in eloquence, pathos, and accuracy while no other commentaries match his as an introduction to this perpetually relevant religious stance. Layton is particularly brilliant in his appreciation of Valentinus, the central Gnostic visionary, whose Gospel of Truth is marvelously served in this translation' (Harold Bloom). This volume, which presents nearly all the relevant texts in a new English translation, is to be warmly welcomed... One particularly valuable feature is that Layton has included translations of all the relevant sections from patristic sources to place alongside the Gnostic texts themselves. As well as translating the texts, Layton has also given extended introductions to the various writings, dealing with different facets of Gnostic studies and placing the texts in their (possible) historical contexts. The result is an extremely useful resource for studying these Gnostic writings' (Kings Theological Review)

The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions

SCM Press

This definitive introduction to the gnostic scriptures provides a crucial look at the theology, religious atmosphere, and literary traditions of ancient Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism. Maps and tables.

The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions by (Anchor Bible Reference Library)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Anchor Bible

The Double Eagle is a future corporation that God will raise up to help Israel in her time of need. The timing of this occurrence and how it will come about is all in God's plan and timing. In this book, The Vision of the Double Eagle: A Very Special Story, God has provided us, through a very compelling, thrilling, and unmistakable example, with a glimpse of how He will orchestrate all of this.

The Vision of the Double Eagle: A Very Special Story

Jan Moore

Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

A Coptic Grammar With Chrestomathy and Glossary: Sahidic Dialect (Porta Linguarum Orientalium)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Otto Harrassowitz

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