Heritage and Transmission in Egyptian Monasticism. BEC 27.
IFAO| N° d'inventaire | 23028 |
| Format | 20.5 x 28 |
| Détails | 376 p., bound. |
| Publication | Cairo, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782724707601 |
This book presents an annotated edition of four wills written on papyrus, dated to the 7th century AD, and written by the superiors of a monastery in Upper Egypt, the Monastery of Saint Phoibammon, located on the left bank of Thebes. Using the form of a private law will, the superiors bequeath to their successor the spiritual direction of the monastery along with ownership of its property and its administration. The implications of this case are both legal – to what extent do these documents conform to the model offered by Byzantine law? –, historical – the wills shed new light on the history of the monastery of Saint Phoibammon, which was an important center of ascetic life in the 7th century and the residence of Bishop Abraham of Hermonthis, its founder –, and linguistic – it is a bilingual file, the first will being in Greek and the following three in Coptic, which allows for the study of the translation processes from one language to the other, and to question the status of Coptic as a legal language. This set is unique because it offers the possibility of studying the same type of documents, coming from the same place, written in two different languages, and condensed over a relatively short chronological period (less than a century).
This book presents an annotated edition of four wills written on papyrus, dated to the 7th century AD, and written by the superiors of a monastery in Upper Egypt, the Monastery of Saint Phoibammon, located on the left bank of Thebes. Using the form of a private law will, the superiors bequeath to their successor the spiritual direction of the monastery along with ownership of its property and its administration. The implications of this case are both legal – to what extent do these documents conform to the model offered by Byzantine law? –, historical – the wills shed new light on the history of the monastery of Saint Phoibammon, which was an important center of ascetic life in the 7th century and the residence of Bishop Abraham of Hermonthis, its founder –, and linguistic – it is a bilingual file, the first will being in Greek and the following three in Coptic, which allows for the study of the translation processes from one language to the other, and to question the status of Coptic as a legal language. This set is unique because it offers the possibility of studying the same type of documents, coming from the same place, written in two different languages, and condensed over a relatively short chronological period (less than a century).