Research Catalog

Title

The vision of Theophilus : the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt / edited and translated by Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala.

Publication

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Theophilus, Archbishop of Alexandria, -412
• Monferrer Sala, Juan Pedro

Description

130 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"The Vision of Theophilus is an apocryphal work that enjoyed great popularity in Late Antiquity and in the Middle Ages [wrongly attributed to the Patriarch Theophilus (385-412 CE)]. The original text, now lost, was composed in Coptic, but versions have survived in Syriac, Arabic and Ethiopic. The Arabic version, which is undoubtedly based on a Coptic original, depends on Zachariah of Sakha’s Homily, if not from a common source. The text, which is part of the circle of the Flight of the Holy Family into Egypt, is a narrative text that contains some interesting legendary material of various origins and provenance, embedded in a homiletic format. One of the most significant features offered by this account is the history of the text itself, and the considerable challenge faced by any scholar seeking to establish the chronological relationship between the various surviving versions."--

Series Statement

Texts from Christian late antiquity ; 39

Uniform Title

Texts from Christian late antiquity v. 39.

Alternative Title

Flight of the Holy Family into Egypt

Subject

• Jesus Christ > Flight into Egypt
• Theophilus, Archbishop of Alexandria, -412
• Jesus Christ
• Christian literature, Early
• Flight of Jesus Christ into Egypt

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-115) and indexes.

Language (note)

• In Arabic and English; with English translation from Arabic.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781463205508
• 1463205503

LCCN

^^2015029875

OCLC

• 916684937
• SCSB-11478412

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library