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Of the Text -- The Language and Fourth-Century Date of the Text -- The Pachomian Koinonia: The Community to which On Love and Self-Control Was First Addressed -- The Pachomian Remission: An Annual Opportunity for a Discourse On Love and Self-Control -- A Potential Context for On Love and Self-Control in the Pachomian Conflicts following Pachomius's Death -- Pachomian Use of On Love and Self-Control in the Editing of Instruction concerning a Spiteful Monk -- The Dissolution of the Pachomian Community -- On Love and Self-Control and Its Codex (MONB. CP) -- The Provenance of the Manuscript of On Love and Self-Control -- The Creation of the Codex in the Late Sixth or Early Seventh Century -- Issues of Authorship -- Attribution to Athanasius -- Affinities between Athanasian Writings and On Love and Self-Control -- Reasons to Question an Athanasian Origin for On Love and Self-Control -- A Possible Origin for On Love and Self-Control among the Pachomians -- Horsiesios and On Love and Self-Control -- The Use of the Discourse On Love and Self-Control Beyond the Seventh Century -- Events Affecting the Church in Egypt from the Seventh to Tenth Centuries -- A Tenth-Century Reception of On Love and Self-Control by way of Instruction concerning a Spiteful Monk -- On Love and Self-Control in the Eleventh-Century Apocalypse of Samuel of Qalamun -- The Copying of On Love and Self-Control in the Eleventh or Twelfth Century -- The Dismemberment of the Codex in the Nineteenth Century and Its Current Reconstruction -- Conclusion.
This book introduces a beautiful fourth-century Coptic discourse on love and self-control in its first English translation. The text’s heading attributes it to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, but this attribution is questionable. Exploring issues of authorship and context, this book locates the origins of On Love and Self-Control in the Upper Egyptian Pachomian monastic community of the mid-fourth century. It then traces the various uses of On Love and Self-Control to the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, when the single surviving manuscript was copied as part of an anthology at the Monastery of St. Shenoute of Atripe. A partial reconstruction of this now dismembered codex is provided.
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