Christianity and Monasticism in Middle Egypt

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Minya and Asyut

Gawdat Gabra Hany N. Takla(Herausgeber*in)

Canongate Books (Verlag)

Erschienen am 20. November 2015

416 Seiten

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Intro
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Contributors
Maps
Foreword
Introduction
1. The Monastery of Apa Thomas at Wadi Sarga: Points of Departure for a Relative Chronology
2. Intellectual Life in Middle Egypt: The Case of the Monastery of Bawit (Sixth-Eighth Centuries)
3. Christianity and Monasticism in al-Bahnasa according to Arabic Sources
4. Mesokemic or 'Middle Egyptian'-the Coptic Dialect of Oxyrhynchos (?)
5. The Monastery of Apollo at Bala'iza and Its Literary Texts
6. "Twenty Thousand Nuns": The Domestic Virgins of Oxyrhynchos
7. Anba Isaac, Bishop of the Fayoum, al-Bahnasa, and Giza, 1834-81
8. The Monastery of the Holy Virgin Mary at al-Muharraq, Mount Qusqam: History and Heritage (Reflections of Its Monks)
9. John of Shmoun and Coptic Identity
10. Christianity in Asyut in Modern History
11. The Place of Qusqam in the Textual Data on the Flight into Egypt
12. John of Lykopolis
13. Discerning the True Religion in Late Fourteenth-Century Egypt: Pages from the Dayr al-Muharraq Edition of al-Hawi by al-Makin Jirjis ibn al-'Amid
14. Egyptian Gnosticism from Its Cradle in the Alexandrian Quarters of the Second Century to Its Jar Tomb in the Upper Egyptian Town of Nag' Hammadi
15. Notes on the Arabic Life of Ibrahim al-Fani: A Coptic Saint of the Fourteenth Century
16. Snippets from the Past. Two Ancient Sites in the Asyut Region: Dayr al-Gabrawi and Dayr al-'Izam
17. Liturgy of the Monastery of al-Muharraq
18. L* as a Secret Language: Social Functions of Early Coptic
19. Bawit in the Twenty-first Century: Bibliography 1997-2014
20. Children's Burials from Antinoopolis: Discoveries from Recent Excavations
21. Recent Excavations at Bawit
22. Funerary Aspects in the Paintings from the Apollo Monastery at Bawit
23. The Cave of John of Lykopolis
24. Al-Shaykh Sa'id Revisited: A Reassessment of the Spatial Layout of a Monastic Community
25. Toward the Documentation of the Monastery of the Holy Virgin at al-Muharraq, Asyut
26. The Monastery of the Holy Virgin Mary at al-Muharraq, Mount Qusqam: Reflections of Its Monks Today
27. An Overview of Rock-cut Coptic Sites in Asyut
28. Architectural Typology of Historic Coptic Churches from Oxyrhynchos to Dayr al-Ganadla
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