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-tawar?kh 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