Joseph of Panephysis
Also: Abba Joseph
Born probably in Thmuis (now Tell Timai, Egypt); the year is not known. Died: the year and the place are not known.
Hermit near Panephysis in the Nile delta, visited by John Cassian.
Wrote in Greek.
Places lived
- 385 to 399Panephysis (now El-Manzala, Egypt)monkyears not sure, place probable
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
Filed here, not written by Joseph of Panephysis
These texts are about this person, hold what this person said, or carry this name without good reason. Each page says which.
- Sayings of Joseph of Panephysis about or from this personSayings and short stories of Joseph of Panephysis, taken from the Sayings of the Desert Fathers.7,477 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- John Cassian, Conferences 16.1 gives no year
- Place of birth probable
- Cassian, Conferences 16.1: of a leading family of Thmuis; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727249
- Died not known
- no ancient source; Cassian met him in the 380s or 390s
- Place of death not known
- no ancient source
- Panephysis, years not sure
- Cassian, Conferences 11.1-3 and 16.1: his visit, before he left Egypt about 399
- Panephysis, place probable
- Cassian, Conferences 11.3; Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Joseph of Panephysis; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727184