Shenoute

Schenoute (also: Shenouda, Schinuda ) was an important Coptic altkirchlicher abbot.

Shenoute of Atripe was born around 348 AD. At the age of nine years he came to his uncle St. Pigol (also Bigul ), the abbot of the White Monastery ( Dayr Anba Arabic Šinūda / ad - Dayr al - Abyad ) south of Sohag in Upper Egypt. After a vision of Uncle Schenoute received permission to enter the convent, and was 385 ( 387 for other ) elected abbot. At the time, the monastery of 30 senior monks. The charismatic and practically assessed Schenoute loosened first the monastic rules. The reform move towards useful applications, such as the further practice of the profession for the benefit of the community, the monastery took on a permanent self-sustaining. He also continued his coreligionists to learn to read and write, and copy books. The surrounding population was taught what his popularity increased tremendously. 431 he accompanied Cyril of Alexandria, the Council of Ephesus. To the Association of Schenuteklosters included two other monasteries, of which one was inhabited by nuns. At his death at the age of supposedly 118 years in the year 466, the community had grown to over 2200 monks and nuns nearly 2000. Shenoute is considered the founder of other monasteries with more than 6,000 members and is therefore referred to as head ( Archimandrite ) of a monastery Association.

According to him, a Coptic church in ad - Dahar, 7 km north of Hurghada was founded in eastern Egypt, named, as well as a monastery in Putty (New South Wales). 2013, a colloquium he organized at the University of Leipzig in honor.

Works

• Stephen Emmel: Shenoute 's Literary Corpus. Peeters, Leuven 2004 ( zugl. dissertation, Yale University, 1993).

• Hans -Joachim Cristea: Shenoute of Atripe: Contra Origenistas. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011 (some zugl. Dissertation, Bonn 2010).
• Wolfgang Kosack: Shenoute of Atripe De judicio final. Papyrus Code 63000.IV in the Museo Egizio di Torino. Introduction, text editing and translation edited by Wolfgang Kosack. Berlin, 2013, Christoph Brunner Publisher, ISBN 978-3-9524018-5-9.
• Wolfgang Kosack: Shenoute of Atripe De vita christiana: M 604 Pierpont Morgan Library New York / Ms. OR 12689 British-Library/London and Ms. Clarendon Press b. 4, Frg. Bodleian-Library/Oxford. Introduction, edition of the text and translation into German by Wolfgang Kosack. Publisher Christoph Brunner, Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-906206-00-4.