Those for Whom the Lamp Shines: The Making of Egyptian Ethnic Identity in Late Antiquity

by Vince L. Bantu

In Those for Whom the Lamp Shines, Vince L. Bantu uses the rich body of anti-Chalcedonian literature to explore how the peoples of Egypt, both inside and outside the Coptic Church, came to understand their identity as Egyptians. Working across a comparative spectrum of traditions and communities in late antiquity, at the intersection of religious and other social forms of identity, Bantu shows that it was the dissenting doctrines of the Coptic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520388801
• ISBN13: 9780520388802
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"