{"id":33055,"date":"2022-02-03T11:23:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T11:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=33055"},"modified":"2022-02-03T11:23:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T11:23:42","slug":"shenoute-i-have-heard-about-your-wisdom-ad-flavianum-ducem-english-translation-by-anthony-alcock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2022\/02\/03\/shenoute-i-have-heard-about-your-wisdom-ad-flavianum-ducem-english-translation-by-anthony-alcock\/","title":{"rendered":"Shenoute, &#8220;I have heard about your wisdom&#8221; (Ad Flavianum ducem) &#8211; English translation by Anthony Alcock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">An email last night brought with it a text and English translation of a Coptic text, Abbot Shenoute &#8220;I have heard about your wisdom&#8221; (the <em>Discourse in the presence of Flavian<\/em> or <em>Ad Flavianum ducem<\/em>), made by Dr Anthony Alcock.\u00a0 Alin Suciu has discussed this text somewhat <a href=\"https:\/\/alinsuciu.com\/2011\/12\/03\/an-unknown-fragment-from-a-discourse-of-shenoute-in-the-cleveland-museum-of-art\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 The slightly unusual title is in fact the <em>incipit<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The PDF, which I have renamed, is here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Shenoute-I-have-heard-about-your-wisdom-ad-flavianum-ducem-Alcock-2022.pdf\">Shenoute-I have heard about your wisdom-ad flavianum-ducem-Alcock-2022<\/a> (PDF)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"justify\">The works of Shenoute seem to have remained determinedly offline, yet this forceful figure of the late 4th-early 5th century is exceedingly important in the history of Coptic Christianity, and the transition from official paganism to official Christianity.\u00a0 It is very good to have at least something online!\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An email last night brought with it a text and English translation of a Coptic text, Abbot Shenoute &#8220;I have heard about your wisdom&#8221; (the Discourse in the presence of Flavian or Ad Flavianum ducem), made by Dr Anthony Alcock.\u00a0 Alin Suciu has discussed this text somewhat here.\u00a0 The slightly unusual title is in fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[184,1525],"class_list":["post-33055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-anthony-alcock","tag-shenoute"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}