Paul of tamma and the monastic priesthood

Vigiliae Christianae

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 316-320

  MacCoull, L S B ^a  

^a Society for Coptic Archaeology   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1163/157007299X00055     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. See T. Orlandi, ed./trans., Paolo di Tammaa Operr (Rome 1988).
2. Orlandi, Paolo, 13. See now T. Vivian, "Saint Paul of Tamma: Four Works Concerning Monastic Spirituality," Coptic Church Review 18 (1997), 105-116.
3. M. Pezin, "Nouveau fragment copte concernant Paul de Tamma (P. Sorbonne inv. 2632)," in Christianisme d'Egypte: Hommages à René-Georges Coquin (Louvain 1995) 15-20, here 16, cf. 19-20.
4. Ibid. The same author subsequently simply repeats the fact of Paul's "allusion to the biblical personage of Josedek", without explanation: T. Orlandi, "Letteratura copta e cristianesimo nazionale egiziano," in A. Camplam, ed., L'Egittt cristiano: aspettt e problemi in eta tardo-antica, StudEphemAug 56 (Rome 1997), § 3.5, "Le opere di Paolo di Tamma," pp. 70-71, here 71. See also Sheridan, "Primo monachesimo egiziano," below (n. 11).
5. Ed. H. Tattam, Prophetae Majoree (Oxford 1852, rp. Hildesheim 1989), 380. I thank Kent Rigsby for the text.
6. This verse identificatton and textual feature were also independently noticed by M. Sheridan, "Il mondo spirituale e intellettuale del primo monachesimo egiziano," in Camplani, ed., L'Egittt cnsliano (above n. 5), § 2.2.2, "Paolo di Tamma: Interpretaziom delle scritture," pp. 201-207, here 204.
7. Ed./trans. L. Doutreleau, Didyme l'Aveugle: Sur Zacharie, SC 83, 84, 85 (Paris 1962). For the dating see vol. 1 (SC 8.3), 23. Didymus is presumed to have been, like Paul, a monastic ascetic.
8. Doutreleau, ibid., 450-451. I add quotation marks around "among the prophets", though Doutreleau's punctuation does not add guillemett there. Compare also 440-441: as cited by Shcridan, "Primo monachesimo egiziano," 204-205 n. 121 fin.
9. P.W. Skehan, A. Di Leila, The Wisdom of Ben Sim (New York 1987) 544.
10. P. Monat, "La présentation d'un dossier biblique par Lactance: Le sacerdoce du Christ et celui de Jésus, fils de Josédec," in J. Fontaine, M. Perrin, eds., Lactancc et son temps (Paris 1978) 273-291.
11. See J. Lecuyer, "Jésus fils de Josédec et le sacerdoce du Christ," Recherches de science religieuse 43 (1955) 82-103, dealing with Western writers for the fourth century.
12. See D. Brakke, Athanasius and the Politics of Asceticism (Oxford 1995) 83-85, 118-119.
13. e siècle (328-373) (Rome 1996), she does treat the question of monastic priesthood in its sociological context, especially that of the Meletian conflict: see esp. pp. 124-128, 653-662 (on social background), 763.
14. C. Haas, Alexandria in Late Antiquity (Baltimore 1997) 258-267, "The Desert and the City: Monastic Opposition to Episcopal Authority";
15. and also J.E. Goehring, "Withdrawing from the Desert: Pachomius and the Development of Village Monasticism in Upper Egypt," Harvard Theological Review 89 (1996) 267-285.
16. See Martin, Athanase d'Alexandrie, 5, 117, 637, 822.
17. Paul is viewed as representing a Middle-Egypt form of monastic life and thought, a form characteristic of the region between Memphis and Hermopolis Magna: Orlandi, Paolo, 12, and "Letteratura copta," 69-70. He came from a village in the Kynopolite nome: see R.-G. Coquin, "Paul of Tamma," in Coptic Encyclopedia (New York 1991) 6:1923-1925, here 1923.