Life of Apa Aphou of Pemje / Oxyrhynchus

Life of Apa Aphou, anchorite and bishop of Oxyrhynchus (Coptic with parallel Arabic; PATHS edition) · anonymous · c. 400-450 (Aphou, bishop of Oxyrhynchus, fl. early 5th c.) · hagiography

Coptic · domain: monastic · researched 2026-11-13

Why this is in the register

Coptic Scriptorium's TEI (urn:cts:copticLit:lives.aphou.paths_ed:0-61) carries an English translation credited to Aurelio La Rotta covering chapters 0-61, together with an untranslated parallel Arabic column. HOLLIS 'Life of Aphou' (4 hits: a monograph on the anthropomorphite controversy, two modern Greek books, and Vivian's Four Desert Fathers), 'Aphou Pemje' (0) and 'Aphou d'Oxyrhynque' (0) return no printed English translation of the Life (the contents of the 2012 Mohr Siebeck monograph were not inspected). Digital partial translation only.

2 TEI files in the local mirror. The Life is a key source for the anthropomorphite controversy of 399 and for monastic-bishop relations; the English in the TEI is digital-only and the Arabic column is untranslated.

Existing translations recorded

Electronic text

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Life of Apa Aphou of Pemje Oxyrhynchus — 0 record(s). No catalogue record was retrieved.

Sources checked

• https://data.copticscriptorium.org/urn:cts:copticLit:lives.aphou.paths_ed:0-61
• https://github.com/copticScriptorium/corpora/tree/master/life-aphou
• HOLLIS search — Aphou Pemje
• HOLLIS search — Life of Aphou

Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Apa Aphou of Pemje / Oxyrhynchus” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-aphou-life