Jitse Dijkstra

Han van Dijk

The book is an important contribution to the current debate about the usefulness of Egyptian hagiography as a historical source for late antique Egypt and to the study of the reception of the desert fathers in the medieval West.

The Encroaching Desert: Egyptian Hagiography and the Medieval West

Jacques van der Vliet

This book offers the first critical edition of the Life of Aaron, a Coptic hagiographical work describing monastic life at the southern Egyptian frontier in the fourth-fifth centuries, together with a new translation and a detailed commentary.

Critical Edition, Translation and Commentary

The Coptic Life of Aaron

Yme Kuiper

Justin Kroesen

This volume in honour of Jan N. Bremmer consists of a variety of contributions offering a broad spectrum of original ideas and innovative approaches in the history of religions both past and present, thus reflecting the nature of the scholarship of Bremmer himself.

Jitse Dijkstra

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