Book chapter
SHENOUTE’S POLEMIC AGAINST NON-CANONICAL TEXTS IN CANON 3
The Rediscovery of Shenoute, p.285
Peeters Publishers
08/02/2022
Abstract
As a monastic scribe and author, Shenoute was well versed in a variety of Christian texts, including biblical literature, of course, but also texts that did not fall within the traditional 27-book canon that was first enumerated in Athanasius’s Festal Letter 39 of 367 CE. As director of the White Monastery federation, and noted person of influence in the late Roman Thebaid, Shenoute could draw on his authority to critique these non-canonical works. For example, in I Am Amazed (Discourses 1, 2, 3, 7), he associates “apocrypha” with the Origenists, attacking their heretical doctrine; and he was the recipient of
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- SHENOUTE’S POLEMIC AGAINST NON-CANONICAL TEXTS IN CANON 3
- Creators
- Paul C. Dilley
- Contributors
- ANNE BOUD’HORS (Editor)DAVID Brakke (Editor)ANDREW Crislip (Editor)SAMUEL Moawad (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Rediscovery of Shenoute, p.285
- Publisher
- Peeters Publishers
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/02/2022
- Academic Unit
- Classics; Religious Studies; Interdisciplinary Studies Program
- Record Identifier
- 9984398324102771
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