The Vision of Theophilus
Subtitle: the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt
By: edited and translated by Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala
Contributors: Monferrer Sala, Juan Pedro, editor
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781463205508
Subjects: Flight into Egypt; Flucht nach Ägypten; Early Christian literature; Flight of Jesus Christ into Egypt
Other titles: Flight of the Holy Family into Egypt
Description: "The Vision of Theophilus is an apocryphal work that enjoyed great popularity in Late Antiquity and in the Middle Ages [wrongly attributed to the Patriarch Theophilus (385-412 CE)]. The original text, now lost, was composed in Coptic, but versions have survived in Syriac, Arabic and Ethiopic. The Arabic version, which is undoubtedly based on a Coptic original, depends on Zachariah of Sakha's Homily, if not from a common source. The text, which is part of the circle of the Flight of the Holy Family into Egypt, is a narrative text that contains some interesting legendary material of various origins and provenance, embedded in a homiletic format. One of the most significant features offered by this account is the history of the text itself, and the considerable challenge faced by any scholar seeking to establish the chronological relationship between the various surviving versions."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-115) and indexes.

In Arabic and English; with English translation from Arabic.