David Brakke
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1055588 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Brakke |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Brakke |
| ASSINATURA | BRAKKE D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Monks, Barbarians, and Soldiers
Armed conflict and the proximity of soldiers and other combatants shaped late ancient monastic communities in diverse ways that reflected not only the vulnerability of victims but also the resourcefulness of innovators. Monks were wounded, captured, and killed, and some became the objects of veneration as martyrs; monastic communities built walls and towers for protection and offered help to victims of violence; monks interacted with barbarians p…
War and Community in Late Antiquity
Late Antiquity (ca. 250–600 CE) was a world at war: barbarian migrations, civil wars, raids, and increasingly porous frontiers affected millions of its inhabitants. While military and political historians have long grappled with this history, scholars of late antique society and culture rarely interrogate the consequences of near constant warfare on civilian populations, fighting forces, and the built environment. War and Community in Late Antiqu…
The Power of Magic in the Study of Ancient Christianity
Two recent books on magic in ancient and late ancient Christianity demonstrate the continuing power of “magic” for the study of ancient religion. Joseph Sanzo’s Ritual Boundaries and Laura Nasrallah’s Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses productively attend to the materiality of magical practices and undermine distinctions between elites and non-elites in religious practice
The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings
The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings provides the definitive anthology of early Christian texts, from ca. 100 CE to ca. 650 CE. Its volumes reflect the cultural, intellectual, and linguistic diversity of early Christianity, and are organized thematically on the topics of God, Practice, Christ, and Community. The series expands the pool of source material to include not only Greek and Latin writings, but also Syriac and Coptic texts. …
Origen and Prophecy
The Gospel of Judas
A new translation and commentary on the extracanonical Coptic text that describes Judas’ special status among Jesus’ disciples Since its publication in 2006, The Gospel of Judas has generated remarkable interest and debate among scholars and general readers alike. In this Coptic text from the second century C.E., Jesus engages in a series of conversations with his disciples and with Judas, explaining the origin of the cosmos and its rulers, the e…
Tusen
Demetrios (Demetrius) of Alexandria
Gnostics and their Critics
The Gnostics primarily engaged in ‘rewritten Bible’: they retold and augmented the stories of Genesis and the Gospels, sometimes seeming to replace the biblical book as much as to explicate it. Valentinus practised a highly allusive form of biblical interpretation, in which the Bible and other literature enabled him to express a vision that was personal and biblical. The students of Valentinus participated fully in the emerging ‘academic’ culture…
Pseudonymity, Gnosis, and the Self in Gnostic Literature
Why did Sethian gnostic authors write pseudonymously? In addition to making a claim to authority, gnostic pseudepigraphy, exemplified by The Three Tablets of Seth, was multiple and performative, implying that the self is multiple—a manifestation of selfhood at different levels of a single reality—and that performing one’s self as multiple provides a path to higher knowledge of one’s self and thus of God. That is, gnostic pseudonymity stems from a…
The Gnomai of the Council of Nicaea (CC 0021)
This welcome book presents, as the title indicates, a critical text and translation, along with introduction and commentary, of the Gnomai of the Council of Nicaea, a work little known and seldom studied outside the realm of Coptology. As Alistair Stewart persuasively argues, the Gnomai deserve to receive greater attention as evidence for the literary and moral education of well-to-do Christians in late fourth-century Egypt, especially women, and…
Early Christian Lies and the Lying Liars Who Wrote Them
Selected Discourses of Shenoute the Great
Shenoute the Great (c.347–465) led one of the largest Christian monastic communities in late antique Egypt and was the greatest native writer of Coptic in history. For approximately eight decades, Shenoute led a federation of three monasteries and emerged as a Christian leader. His public sermons attracted crowds of clergy, monks, and lay people; he advised military and government officials; he worked to ensure that his followers would be faithfu…
Éric Rebillard. Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200–450 CE
The Gnostics
Alexander of Alexandria
Alexander, bishop of Alexandria (312–328), presided over a church already divided by the Meletian Schism and played an important part in the beginning of the Arian controversy. One of Alexander's predecessors, Peter, had come into conflict with BishopMeletius of Lykopolis when Meletius ordained bishops and priests while Peter was in hiding during persecution. The dispute escalated into a full‐fledged schism, which was exacerbated by differences o…
Demetrios of Alexandria
Demetrios, bishop of Alexandria (189–232), played a crucial role in enhancing the position of the single bishop as the leader of the church in Alexandria.
Gnostics
Canon and Canonicity
A New Fragment of Athanasius's Thirty-Ninth Festal Letter
Athanasius of Alexandria's thirty-ninth Festal Letter remains one of the most significant documents in the history of the Christian Bible. Athanasius wrote the letter, which contains the first extant list of precisely the twenty-seven books of the current New Testament canon, in 367 c.e. , during the final decade of his life. Like many of his annual Easter letters, the thirty-ninth was fairly long, but only a small portion of the text survives in…
Demons and the Making of the Monk
Chapter Four. From temple to cell, from gods to demons
Demons and the Making of the Monk
The Lady Appears
Research Article| September 01 2003 The Lady Appears: Materializations of “Woman” in Early Monastic Literature David Brakke David Brakke Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (3): 387–402. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-33-3-387 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David Brakke; The Lady Appears: Materializati…
Gnosticism and Later Platonism
The Making of Monastic Demonology
Although in recent years fourth- and fifth-century Egyptian monasticism has received much scholarly attention of increasing methodological and theoretical sophistication, conflict with demons, a primary metaphor for the ascetic life in the literature of the period, has been left relatively unexplored. One reason for this lack of attention is a shift in the intellectual paradigms through which scholars approach ascetic literature: as they have mov…
Tusen
Early Christian Lies and the Lying Liars Who Wrote Them
The Lady Appears
Research Article| September 01 2003 The Lady Appears: Materializations of “Woman” in Early Monastic Literature David Brakke David Brakke Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (3): 387–402. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-33-3-387 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David Brakke; The Lady Appears: Materializati…
The Early Church in North America
By almost any measure, the study of ancient Christian history is alive and well, even if one limits one's view to the North American scene. Over the last three decades the number of publications in the field, both books and articles, has grown considerably, fueling (among other things) the astonishing success of theJournal of Early Christian Studies, founded by the North American Patristic Society (NAPS) a decade'ago. Each year the program of the…
Canon Formation and Social Conflict in Fourth-Century Egypt
In histories of the formation of the Christian biblical canon, the thirty-ninth Festal Letter of Athanasius of Alexandria, written for Easter 367, holds a justifiably prominent place. Not only is this letter the earliest extant Christian document to list precisely the twenty-seven books that eventually formed the generally accepted canon of the New Testament, but Athanasius is also the first Christian author known to have applied the term “canoni…
Constantine and the Bishops
The Making of Monastic Demonology
Although in recent years fourth- and fifth-century Egyptian monasticism has received much scholarly attention of increasing methodological and theoretical sophistication, conflict with demons, a primary metaphor for the ascetic life in the literature of the period, has been left relatively unexplored. One reason for this lack of attention is a shift in the intellectual paradigms through which scholars approach ascetic literature: as they have mov…
Gnosticism and Later Platonism
The Early Church in North America
By almost any measure, the study of ancient Christian history is alive and well, even if one limits one's view to the North American scene. Over the last three decades the number of publications in the field, both books and articles, has grown considerably, fueling (among other things) the astonishing success of theJournal of Early Christian Studies, founded by the North American Patristic Society (NAPS) a decade'ago. Each year the program of the…
The Lady Appears
Research Article| September 01 2003 The Lady Appears: Materializations of “Woman” in Early Monastic Literature David Brakke David Brakke Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (3): 387–402. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-33-3-387 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David Brakke; The Lady Appears: Materializati…
Demons and the Making of the Monk
Chapter Four. From temple to cell, from gods to demons
Demons and the Making of the Monk
A New Fragment of Athanasius's Thirty-Ninth Festal Letter
Athanasius of Alexandria's thirty-ninth Festal Letter remains one of the most significant documents in the history of the Christian Bible. Athanasius wrote the letter, which contains the first extant list of precisely the twenty-seven books of the current New Testament canon, in 367 c.e. , during the final decade of his life. Like many of his annual Easter letters, the thirty-ninth was fairly long, but only a small portion of the text survives in…
Canon and Canonicity
The Gnostics
Alexander of Alexandria
Alexander, bishop of Alexandria (312–328), presided over a church already divided by the Meletian Schism and played an important part in the beginning of the Arian controversy. One of Alexander's predecessors, Peter, had come into conflict with BishopMeletius of Lykopolis when Meletius ordained bishops and priests while Peter was in hiding during persecution. The dispute escalated into a full‐fledged schism, which was exacerbated by differences o…
Demetrios of Alexandria
Demetrios, bishop of Alexandria (189–232), played a crucial role in enhancing the position of the single bishop as the leader of the church in Alexandria.
Gnostics
Éric Rebillard. Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200–450 CE
Selected Discourses of Shenoute the Great
Shenoute the Great (c.347–465) led one of the largest Christian monastic communities in late antique Egypt and was the greatest native writer of Coptic in history. For approximately eight decades, Shenoute led a federation of three monasteries and emerged as a Christian leader. His public sermons attracted crowds of clergy, monks, and lay people; he advised military and government officials; he worked to ensure that his followers would be faithfu…
The Gnomai of the Council of Nicaea (CC 0021)
This welcome book presents, as the title indicates, a critical text and translation, along with introduction and commentary, of the Gnomai of the Council of Nicaea, a work little known and seldom studied outside the realm of Coptology. As Alistair Stewart persuasively argues, the Gnomai deserve to receive greater attention as evidence for the literary and moral education of well-to-do Christians in late fourth-century Egypt, especially women, and…
Early Christian Lies and the Lying Liars Who Wrote Them
Pseudonymity, Gnosis, and the Self in Gnostic Literature
Why did Sethian gnostic authors write pseudonymously? In addition to making a claim to authority, gnostic pseudepigraphy, exemplified by The Three Tablets of Seth, was multiple and performative, implying that the self is multiple—a manifestation of selfhood at different levels of a single reality—and that performing one’s self as multiple provides a path to higher knowledge of one’s self and thus of God. That is, gnostic pseudonymity stems from a…
Gnostics and their Critics
The Gnostics primarily engaged in ‘rewritten Bible’: they retold and augmented the stories of Genesis and the Gospels, sometimes seeming to replace the biblical book as much as to explicate it. Valentinus practised a highly allusive form of biblical interpretation, in which the Bible and other literature enabled him to express a vision that was personal and biblical. The students of Valentinus participated fully in the emerging ‘academic’ culture…
Demetrios (Demetrius) of Alexandria
Tusen
The Gospel of Judas
A new translation and commentary on the extracanonical Coptic text that describes Judas’ special status among Jesus’ disciples Since its publication in 2006, The Gospel of Judas has generated remarkable interest and debate among scholars and general readers alike. In this Coptic text from the second century C.E., Jesus engages in a series of conversations with his disciples and with Judas, explaining the origin of the cosmos and its rulers, the e…
Origen and Prophecy
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