Shenoute's Literary Corpus. By Stephen Emmel. 2 volumes. Pp. xxvi + 1006 (paginated continuously). Three plates. Tables and diagrams. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalum, 599–600 / Subsidia, 111–12.) Leuven: Peeters, 2004. isbn 90 429 1230 8 and 1231 6. Paper €125 (set)
2005; Oxford University Press; Volume: 56; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/jts/fli190
ISSN1477-4607
Autores Tópico(s)Biblical Studies and Interpretation
ResumoFor many students of early monasticism the writings of Shenoute remain an undiscovered country which we fear to explore for ourselves and know of only at second hand. Even the first monograph on Shenoute in English, Rebecca Krawiec's Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2002) does not seem to have done much as yet to encourage wider awareness of the territory. But Stephen Emmel's immensely learned and painstaking reconstruction of Shenoute's literary corpus on the basis of the surviving White Monastery codices of his works is likely (and deserves) to change this situation considerably. It will provide specialists involved in the editing and translating of Shenoute's works with an invaluable research tool, while to those whose previous knowledge of Shenoute is derived from general historical studies alone or from published editions and translations of bewildering fragmentedness and complexity it offers a magisterial text-critical orientation to the sources which to my mind vastly exceeds in utility and comprehensiveness what Bousset achieved for the Apophthegmata Patrum or Veilleux for the Pachomian writings.
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