Those for Whom the Lamp Shines : The Making of Egyptian Ethnic Identity in Late Antiquity.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bantu, Vince L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Egyptians--Ethnic identity.

Egyptians.

Ethnicity--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Ethnicity.

Egypt--Religion--332 B.C.-640 A.D.

Egypt.

Coptic Church--Egypt--History.

Coptic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2023.

Summary:

In Those for Whom the Lamp Shines, Vince L. Bantu uses the rich body of anti-Chalcedonian literature to explore how the peoples of Egypt, both inside and outside the Coptic Church, came to understand their identity as Egyptians. Working across a comparative spectrum of traditions and communities in late antiquity, at the intersection of religious and other social forms of identity, Bantu shows that it was the dissenting doctrines of the Coptic Church that played the crucial role in conceptualizing Egypt and being Egyptian. Based on the study of neglected Coptic and Syriac texts, Those for Whom the Lamp Shines offers the only sustained treatment of ethnic and religious self-understanding in Africa's oldest Christian church.

Contents:

Egyptian ethnicity in late antiquity

Egyptian Christians and ethnicity prior to Chalcedon

Aftermath of Chalcedon

Response to Justinian

Identity formation under Islam

Egyptian identity from outside perspectives

Conclusion : Miaphysite Christology as identity boundary.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520388826

0520388828

OCLC:

1394120857