Egyptian Ethnic Identity Development in Anti-Chalcedonian Coptic Literature
[Thesis]
Vince L. Bantu
Timbie, Janet
The Catholic University of America
2015
288
Committee members: Griffith, Sidney; Jansen, Katherine; Johnson, Scott; Miller, Robert
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-78992-8
Ph.D.
Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures
The Catholic University of America
2015
The rapid increase of rhetorical and thematic elements in Coptic literature emphasizing the land and people of Egypt during the centuries following the Council of Chalcedon (451 CE) was interpreted by many scholars in the early twentieth-century as a sign of Egyptian nationalism. Beginning in the late twentieth century the study of late antique Christianity has witnessed an almost complete rejection of this analysis. Yet, while offering valid objections to the nationalism thesis, contemporary scholarship has not provided a helpful framework with which to understand Egyptian-centered rhetoric in Coptic texts and its role in the overall formation of Egyptian Christian identity.
Middle Eastern literature; Religious history; Egyptian Coptic; Semiotics; Cultural identity; Literary criticism; 20th century; North African studies; Rhetoric; Near Eastern studies
Language, literature and linguistics;Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Anti-Chalcedonian;Coptic;Egypt;Ethnic identity;Islamic Conquest;Late Antiquity