--On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 6:12 PM "Juris G. Lidaka" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Moses, abbot, C. (different from S. Moses, bishop of the Arabs). He was
> an abbot in the desert of Scete, who was killed with six of his monks by
> a band of marauding Arabs in the 5th century. F. 7 Feb.--H.L.
Isn't this the same Moses who is one of John Cassian's interlocutors in the
_Conferences_ 1 and 2? n The picture Cassian paints of this man is
extremely flattering; he is a pillar of Egyptian monasticism. Stewart
(_Cassian the Monk_) notes that "Cassian's comments match in broad outline
the picture of Moses in Palladius' _Hist. Laus_. 19 (pp. 58.14-62.15) and
the sayings (eighteen of them in _Apoph. Alph_. Moses cols. 281B-89C)."
See also the refs. in _Conf_. 3.5.2 and 7.27. Some additional bib.:
Sauget, J.-M., "Mose`" _BSanc_, 9.652-54
Wicker, Kathleen O'B., "Ethiopian Moses (Collected Sources)," in _Ascetic
Behavior in Greco Roman Antiquity, A Sourcebook_ (ed. V. Wimbush).
Minneapolis, 1990.
Devos, Paul, "St. Jean Cassien et Saint Moise l'Ethiopien," in _An. Boll._
103 (1985) 61-73.
Hope this helps.
MW
Mark F. Williams
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