Egyptian Ethnic Identity Development in Anti-Chalcedonian Coptic Literature
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Vince L. Bantu
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Timbie, Janet
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
The Catholic University of America
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
288
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Committee members: Griffith, Sidney; Jansen, Katherine; Johnson, Scott; Miller, Robert
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-78992-8
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures
Body granting the degree
The Catholic University of America
Text preceding or following the note
2015
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Middle Eastern literature; Religious history; Egyptian Coptic; Semiotics; Cultural identity; Literary criticism; 20th century; North African studies; Rhetoric; Near Eastern studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Language, literature and linguistics;Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Anti-Chalcedonian;Coptic;Egypt;Ethnic identity;Islamic Conquest;Late Antiquity