Monastic Microtheologies: Religious Expressions and Imagery in the Monastic Letters from Western Thebes

by P Piwowarczyk

The book reconstructs the theological concepts shared by the Theban monks for the first time based on documentary sources. It gleans scattered evidence from hundreds of private letters preserved on ostraca and, in several cases, papyri. Such documents do not expound on complex theological systems but use particular phrases, words and images loaded with religious meaning. These snapshots represent microtheologies - particular, fragmented realizations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 904295003X
• ISBN13: 9789042950030
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.