{"product_id":"the-life-of-bishoi-the-greek-arabic-syriac-and-ethiopic-lives","title":"Life of Bishoi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFour translations of major accounts of the life of the fourth-century Egyptian desert father St. Bishoi, in one volume\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Saint Bishoi of Scetis (d. ca. 417) enjoys tremendous popularity throughout the Christian east, particularly among the Copts. He lived during a remarkable era in which a litany of larger-than-life monastics lived and interacted with one another. Even then, Bishoi stood out as the founder of one of the four great monasteries of Scetis (Wadi al-Natrun): those of Macarius, John the Little, Bishoi, and the Baramus. Yet in spite of Bishoi’s prominence, the various recensions of his hagio-biography have received sporadic, scattered attention.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Life of Bishoi\u003c\/i\u003e joins other\u003ci\u003e Lives\u003c\/i\u003e of eminent monastics of early-Egyptian monasticism: the \u003ci\u003e Lives\u003c\/i\u003e of Antony, Daniel, John the Little, Macarius, Paphnutius, Shenoute, and Syncletica. These\u003ci\u003e Lives\u003c\/i\u003e are vital for what they tell us about monastic\u003ci\u003e politeia\u003c\/i\u003e (way of life), spirituality, and theology, both of the early monastics and of those who later wrote, translated, and revised the \u003ci\u003eLives\u003c\/i\u003e. They appeared first in Greek and Coptic, and later generations translated and revised them into Syriac, Arabic and Ge‘ez (Ethiopic).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis definitive volume contains the first English translation of the Greek, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic\u003ci\u003e Lives \u003c\/i\u003eof Bishoi, each translation accompanied by an introduction that focuses on certain aspects of the source text. It also has the first transcription and English translation of an important Greek text. The General Introduction provides rich context about the texts and textual traditions in the various languages, and thoroughly revises our knowledge about the Syriac tradition, the translation of the Syriac text here now consequently providing what is the best translation in any modern language. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONTRIBUTORS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTim Vivian, \u003c\/b\u003e California State University, Bakersfield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaged S.A. Mikhail, \u003c\/b\u003e California State University, Fullerton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRowan Allen Greer III (1935–2014), \u003c\/b\u003e an Episcopal priest and Walter H. Gray Professor of Anglican Studies at Yale Divinity School, was author of \u003ci\u003eBroken Lights and Mended Lives: Theology and Common Life in the Early Church \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Anglican Approaches to Scripture: From the Reformation to the Present. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Kitchen\u003c\/b\u003e is a retired minister of the United Church of Canada, living in Regina, Saskatchewan. He read for the D.Phil. (Oxford) in Syriac Language and Literature and has taught Syriac studies in Sweden and Austria. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eApostolos N. Athanassakis\u003c\/b\u003e  was Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"American University in Cairo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54190968635736,"sku":null,"price":62.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781617979996.jpg?v=1778508063","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-life-of-bishoi-the-greek-arabic-syriac-and-ethiopic-lives","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}