P. Morgan Copt. 10: A Monastic Recipe for Healing Infertility
The papyrus P. Morgan Copt. 10 contains a recipe for healing infertility, dating to approximately the seventh century CE, and has been associated with the Apa Apollo Monastery in Bawit, Egypt. The prayer - explicitly intended to be recited over a cup of wine - includes an initial address to God, a m...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Early christianity
Year: 2025, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 207-202 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Handwriting
/ Magic
/ Prayer
/ Liturgy
/ Medicine
/ Desire for children
/ Sarah
/ Monastery
/ Monasticism
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages RC Liturgy TB Antiquity |
| Further subjects: | B
historiola
B Monasticism B Infertility B Egypt B Healing B Late Antiquity |
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| Summary: | The papyrus P. Morgan Copt. 10 contains a recipe for healing infertility, dating to approximately the seventh century CE, and has been associated with the Apa Apollo Monastery in Bawit, Egypt. The prayer - explicitly intended to be recited over a cup of wine - includes an initial address to God, a mention of the promise made to the matriarch Sarah, a series of divine titles of God, a formal request to loosen the woman's womb, and an appeal to God's name. This paper uses the recipe as a case study of monastic healing practices and to problematize the firm distinctions between such categories as medicine, magic, prayer, and liturgy. |
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| ISSN: | 1868-8020 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Early christianity
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/ec-2025-0016 |