First in the Desert: St. Paul the Hermit in Text and Tradition

Lisa Agaiby, Academic Dean and Senior Lecturer in Coptic Studies at St. Athanasius College, University of Divinity, Australia. Her most recent publications are, with Tim Vivian, Door of the Wilderness: The Greek, Coptic, and Copto-Arabic Sayings of St. Antony of Egypt (Brill, 2022), with Mark N. Swanson and Nelly van-Doorn Harder (eds.), Copts in Modernity (Brill, 2021), and The Arabic Life of Antony Attributed to Serapion of Thmuis: Cultural Memory Reinterpreted (Brill, 2018).

• ForewordMark N. SwansonList of FiguresList of TablesCommon AbbreviationsContributorsIntroductionLisa Agaiby1 The Young Jerome, the Vita Pauli, and the Cave and Monastery of Paul the HermitWilliam Lyster2 The Latin TraditionMarsha Dutton3 The First Greek TraditionTim Vivian, with the assistance of Apostolos N. Athanassakis4 The Second Greek TraditionTim Vivian, with the assistance of Apostolos N. Athanassakis5 The Syriac TraditionRobert Kitchen6 The Bohairic Coptic TraditionTim Vivian, with the assistance of Maged S.A. Mikhail and Hany N. Takla7 The Georgian TraditionThea Gomelauri8 The Armenian TraditionsAndy Hilkens9 The Copto-Arabic TraditionLisa Agaiby, with the assistance of Antonia St Demiana and Hany N. Takla10 The Old Church Slavonic TraditionNebojsa Tumara11 The Ethiopic TraditionRobert KitchenEpilogue: The Travelling Memory of PaulKatherin PapadopoulosAppendix1: Table of ComparisonsAppendix2: Table of Theme VariationsBibliographyIndex of ManuscriptsIndex of Ancient SourcesIndex of Modern AuthorsIndex of Subjects