| Notas: | The problems with the category 'apocrypha' for classifying late antique texts have been noted, but the project of finding new terms for analyzing the texts has only begun. I argue that the compositional technique that scholars of Second Temple Judaism have labeled, 'rewritten scripture', is a useful concept for examining texts produced in late antique Egypt. To illustrate the utility of borrowing the concept, I offer a case study on a maymar (homily) attributed to Theophilus of Alexandria concerning the first church ever consecrated, the Church of Mary in Koskam (Greek Koussai, Arabic al-Qūṣiyyah), Egypt. |
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