Onomastic Statistics and the Christianization of Egypt:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Onomastic Statistics and the Christianization of Egypt: "
David Frankfurter

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1085363
Doc. No	:	LA128992
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700720-12341189‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	David Frankfurter
Title & Author	:	Onomastic Statistics and the Christianization of Egypt: [Article] : A Response to Depauw and Clarysse\ David Frankfurter
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Vigiliae Christianae
Date	:	2014
Volume/ Issue Number	:	68/3
Page No	:	284–289
Abstract	:	In showing a more gradual spread of Christianity over the fourth century, Depauw and Clarysse’s revised statistical approach has some merits over Bagnall’s earlier conclusions from onomastic evidence. However, given the complex, even ambiguous Christianity evident in late antique Egyptian sources, all attempts to track “conversion” on the basis of naming beg the questions: (a) what constitutes “being Christian” and (b) what do new naming practices actually represent in the overall assimilation of Christian traditions. In showing a more gradual spread of Christianity over the fourth century, Depauw and Clarysse’s revised statistical approach has some merits over Bagnall’s earlier conclusions from onomastic evidence. However, given the complex, even ambiguous Christianity evident in late antique Egyptian sources, all attempts to track “conversion” on the basis of naming beg the questions: (a) what constitutes “being Christian” and (b) what do new naming practices actually represent in the overall assimilation of Christian traditions.
Descriptor	:	Christianization
Descriptor	:	conversion
Descriptor	:	Egypt
Descriptor	:	naming
Descriptor	:	religious ambiguity
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700720-12341189‬