The Legacy of Demetrius of Alexandria 189-232 CE

Maged S. A. Mikhail is Professor of History at California State University at Fullerton, USA.

Preface

Abbreviations

Part I: The Genesis and Evolution of a Hagiographic Program

1. The Bishop and the Scholar

2. Sources

3. Early Imprints

4. Date and Socio-Literary Setting of the Sahidic Coptic Tradition

5. The Encomium on Demetrius as Hagiography

6. Hagiography across Language and Culture

7. Arabic Recensions, Amendments, and Omissions: Emergence of the Normative Hagiography

8. Lent and Epact in Alexandria

9. Form, Function, and Meaning

Part II: Texts – Demetrius’s Bio-Hagiographic Dossier

I. Earliest Evidence

II. An Encomium on Demetrius of Alexandria

III. Demetrius’s sirah in the History of the Patriarchs’ Primitive Recension

IV. Eutychius’s Nazm al-jawhar (The String of Pearls)

V. Kitab al-tawarīkh and the Chronicon orientale

VI. The Coptic-Arabic synaksar (Synaxarium)

VII. Abu al-Barakat’s Musbah al-zulma (A Lamp in the Darkness)

VIII. The Difnar (Antiphonarium)

IX. Doxologies and Praises

Works Cited

Index