Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity

by David Frankfurter

Book Overview

How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions and spectacular monuments as Egypt? This book offers a new model for envisioning the process of Christianization by looking at the construction of Christianity in the various social and creative worlds active in Egyptian culture during late antiquity.

As David Frankfurter shows, members of these different social and creative worlds came to create...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691216789
• ISBN13: 9780691216782
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"