{"product_id":"9789042935600","title":"Episcopal Networks and Authority in Late Antique Egypt : Bishops of the Theban Region at Work (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book the author examines how two bishops in the Theban region \n\u003cbr\u003e contributed to the rise of a new, anti-Chalcedonian church hierarchy, \n\u003cbr\u003e which became the forerunner of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Abraham of \n\u003cbr\u003e Hermonthis (ca. 590-621) and Pesynthius of Koptos (599-632) are \n\u003cbr\u003e exceptional, since a large number of their professional documents \n\u003cbr\u003e (mostly in Coptic) is preserved. By applying Social Network Analysis to \n\u003cbr\u003e these documents, the author reconstructed their individual social \n\u003cbr\u003e networks and linked them to a wider regional network that was centered \n\u003cbr\u003e on monastic communities in Western Thebes (west of modern Luxor), but \n\u003cbr\u003e also included a large number of civil officials, clergymen and lay men \n\u003cbr\u003e and women. In addition, a social model of episcopal authority was \n\u003cbr\u003e adopted, in order to evaluate how the bishops used their authority and \n\u003cbr\u003e to explain what made Pesynthius so extraordinary that he is still \n\u003cbr\u003e remembered as a saint by the Coptic Orthodox Church.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peeters Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42951685275723,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":4887.77,"currency_code":"THB","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.co.th\/products\/9789042935600","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Thailand","version":"1.0","type":"link"}