Those for Whom the Lamp Shines: The Making of Egyptian Ethnic Identity in Late Antiquity - Hardcoverby Vince L. Bantu (Author) In Those for Whom the Lamp Shines, Vince L. Bantu uses the rich body of anti Chalcedonian literature to explore how the peoples of Egypt, both inside and outside the Coptic Church, came to understand their identity as Egyptians. Working across a comparative spectrum of traditions and communities in late antiquity, at the intersection of religious and other social forms of identity, Bantu shows that it was the dissenting