Apa Iohannes
| Name: | Apa Iohannes |
| Variants: | Apa Johannes |
| Place: | U15 - Hermopolites |
| Century: | AD04 |
| Begin: | AD 375 |
| End: | AD 399 |
| Language/script: | bilingual: Greek and Coptic |
| Material: | papyrus |
| Texts: | 27 |
| ↳ certain: | 18 |
| ↳ uncertain: | 9 |
| ↳ erroneous: | |
| Type: | private archive |
| Protagonist: | Most letters are addressed to the anchorite or apotaktikos Apa Iohannes, who is asked to intercede with both divine and human powers in matters of everyday concern. He was apparently a local saint and leader of a monastic community. One letter (P. Amh. 2 145) is apparently written by Apa Iohannes. Zuckermann identifies the anchorite with the famous Iohannes of Lykopolis. |
| Description: | letters from a variety of correspondents: monks, ecclesiastics, officials, soldiers and ordinary family people |
| Studies: | van Minnen, AfP 40 (1994), p. 80-85; C. Zuckermann, BASP 32 (1995), p. 183-194; Choat, Pap. Congr. XXIV (Helsinki 2004), 2007, p. 175-183; Gonis, BASP 45 (2008), p. 69-85; Wispzycka, Moines et communautés monastiques, JJP Suppl. 11 (2009), p. 83-85 |
| Lists: | Montevecchi, La papirologia, 1988, p. 259 no. 71; Seidl, Rechtsgeschichte Ägyptens als römischer Provinz, 1973, p. 69 no. 2.8 |
| Work: | Malcolm Choat plans a new edition. |
| Collections: |
Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library London, British Library Manchester, John Rylands Library Norfolk, Private collection Amherst Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms |
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