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Abstract
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 503-517). Thesis (Ph. D.)--Claremont Graduate School, 1981. Includes Greek text and English translation by author. Microfiche. s
The desert hermit dominates the literary landscape of early Egyptian monasticism. A careful review of the sources, however, suggests that this dominance is to a large degree literary. While ascetics continued to ply their trade throughout Egypt, it was the withdrawal of some to the desert that supplied the metaphor required for the literary telling of the story. The success of the story, rather than the dominance of the practice, established the desert hermit as the literary icon of early Egyptian monasticism.
Esta contribución no pretende ser sino una primera aproximación a la situación lingüística en el ámbito monástico egipcio de los siglos IV-V. Diversos testimonios apuntan a la existencia de intérpretes, de grupos organizados por lenguas en los monasterios y de una cierta presión para aprender el copto en estos. Sin entender la extensión de estos fenómenos sociolingüísticos, no se podrán valorar con exactitud los documentos que nos han llegado tanto en papiro, como en documentos literarios. This contribution merely attempts to make an initial approach to the linguistic situation as found in the Egyptian monastic milieu, during the 4th and 5th centuries. Various kinds of evidence point to the existence of interpreters, of groups set up according to their languages in the monasteries and to a certain pressure exerted on them to learn Coptic. The evaluation of the extension of these sociolinguistic phenomena will enable a more accurate assessment of the value of the documents that have come down to us, both in papyrus form and in literary documents.
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