Christianity and Monasticism in Middle Egypt
Christianity and Monasticism in Middle Egypt
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Abstract
Christianity and monasticism have long flourished along the Nile in Middle Egypt, the region stretching from al-Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus) to Dayr al-Ganadla. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from around the world, examine various aspects of Coptic civilization in Middle Egypt over the past two millennia, including examining the Christian heritage of important sites in Egypt, including Oxyrhynchos (al-Bahnasa); the sites of Antinoë, Hermopolis (al-Ashmunayn), and al-Shaykh Saʻid; Bawit; Dayr al-Muharraq; and Asyut. The studies explore Coptic art and archaeology, architecture, language, and literature. The artistic heritage of monastic sites in the region is highlighted, attesting to their important legacies.
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Front Matter
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The Monastery of Apa Thomas at Wadi Sarga: Points of Departure for a Relative Chronology
Renate Dekker
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Intellectual Life in Middle Egypt: The Case of the Monastery of Bawit (Sixth–Eighth Centuries)
Alain Delattre
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Christianity and Monasticism in al-Bahnasa according to Arabic Sources
Sherin Sadek El Gendi
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Mesokemic or ‘Middle Egyptian’—the Coptic Dialect of Oxyrhynchos (?)
Frank Feder
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The Monastery of Apollo at Bala’iza and Its Literary Texts
James E. Goehring
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“Twenty Thousand Nuns”: The Domestic Virgins of Oxyrhynchos
AnneMarie Luijendijk
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Anba Isaac, Bishop of the Fayoum, al-Bahnasa, and Giza, 1834–81
Bishop Martyros
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The Monastery of the Holy Virgin Mary at al-Muharraq, Mount Qusqam: History and Heritage (Reflections of Its Monks)
Fr. Angelos al-Muharraqi anda group of the monastery’s monks
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John of Shmoun and Coptic Identity
Samuel Moawad
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Christianity in Asyut in Modern History
Adel F. Sadek
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The Place of Qusqam in the Textual Data on the Flight into Egypt
Ashraf Alexandre Sadek
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John of Lykopolis
Mark Sheridan
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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
Mark Swanson
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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
Hany N. Takla
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Notes on the Arabic Life of Ibrahim al-Fani: A Coptic Saint of the Fourteenth Century
Asuka Tsuji
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Snippets from the Past: Two Ancient Sites in the Asyut Region: Dayr al-Gabrawi and Dayr al-‘Izam
Jacques van der Vliet
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Liturgy of the Monastery of al-Muharraq
Youhanna Nessim Youssef
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L⋆ as a Secret Language: Social Functions of Early Coptic
Ewa D. Zakrzewska
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Bawit in the Twenty-first Century: Bibliography 1997–2014
Dominique Bénazeth
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Children’s Burials from Antinoopolis: Discoveries from Recent Excavations
Cäcilia Fluck
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Recent Excavations at Bawit
Gisèle Hadji-Minaglou
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Funerary Aspects in the Paintings from the Apollo Monastery at Bawit
Karel Innemée
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The Cave of John of Lykopolis
Jochem Kahl
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Al-Shaykh Sa‘id Revisited: A Reassessment of the Spatial Layout of a Monastic Community
Gertrud J.M. van Loon
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Toward the Documentation of the Monastery of the Holy Virgin at al-Muharraq, Asyut
Howard Middleton-Jones
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The Monastery of the Holy Virgin Mary at al-Muharraq, Mount Qusqam: Reflections of Its Monks Today
Fr. Philoxenos al-Muharraqi anda group of the monastery’s monks
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An Overview of Rock-cut Coptic Sites in Asyut
Ashraf Nageh andMary Kupelian
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Architectural Typology of Historic Coptic Churches from Oxyrhynchos to Dayr al-Ganadla
Sami Sabri Shaker
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