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Christianity and Monasticism in Middle Egypt
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Christianity and Monasticism in Middle Egypt

Gawdat Gabra and Hany Takla

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 archaeolog ... More

Keywords: Christianity, monasticism, Middle Egypt, Nile, Coptology, Coptic civilization, monastic sites

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2015 Print ISBN-13: 9789774166631
Published to Cairo Scholarship Online: January 2017 DOI:10.5743/cairo/9789774166631.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Gawdat Gabra, editor
Clarement Graduate University

Hany Takla, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Illustrations

Contributors

Maps

Foreword

Introduction

1 The Monastery of Apa Thomas at Wadi Sarga: Points of Departure for a Relative Chronology

Renate Dekker

2 Intellectual Life in Middle Egypt: The Case of the Monastery of Bawit (Sixth–Eighth Centuries)

Alain Delattre

3 Christianity and Monasticism in al-Bahnasa according to Arabic Sources

Sherin Sadek El Gendi

4 Mesokemic or ‘Middle Egyptian’—the Coptic Dialect of Oxyrhynchos (?)

Frank Feder

5 The Monastery of Apollo at Bala’iza and Its Literary Texts

James E. Goehring

6 “Twenty Thousand Nuns”: The Domestic Virgins of Oxyrhynchos

AnneMarie Luijendijk

7 Anba Isaac, Bishop of the Fayoum, al-Bahnasa, and Giza, 1834–81

Bishop Martyros

8 The Monastery of the Holy Virgin Mary at al-Muharraq, Mount Qusqam: History and Heritage (Reflections of Its Monks)

Fr. Angelos al-Muharraqi and a group of the monastery’s monks

9 John of Shmoun and Coptic Identity

Samuel Moawad

10 Christianity in Asyut in Modern History

Adel F. Sadek

11 The Place of Qusqam in the Textual Data on the Flight into Egypt

Ashraf Alexandre Sadek

12 John of Lykopolis

Mark Sheridan

13 Discerning the True Religion in Late Fourteenth-Century Egypt

Mark Swanson

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

Hany N. Takla

15 Notes on the Arabic Life of Ibrahim al-Fani: A Coptic Saint of the Fourteenth Century

Asuka Tsuji

16 Snippets from the Past

Jacques van der Vliet

17 Liturgy of the Monastery of al-Muharraq

Youhanna Nessim Youssef

18 L⋆ as a Secret Language

Ewa D. Zakrzewska

19 Bawit in the Twenty-first Century: Bibliography 1997–2014

Dominique Bénazeth

20 Children’s Burials from Antinoopolis

Cäcilia Fluck

21 Recent Excavations at Bawit

Gisèle Hadji-Minaglou

22 Funerary Aspects in the Paintings from the Apollo Monastery at Bawit

Karel Innemée

23 The Cave of John of Lykopolis

Jochem Kahl

24 Al-Shaykh Sa‘id Revisited

Gertrud J.M. van Loon

25 Toward the Documentation of the Monastery of the Holy Virgin at al-Muharraq, Asyut

Howard Middleton-Jones

26 The Monastery of the Holy Virgin Mary at al-Muharraq, Mount Qusqam: Reflections of Its Monks Today

Fr. Philoxenos al-Muharraqi and a group of the monastery’s monks

27 An Overview of Rock-cut Coptic Sites in Asyut

Ashraf Nageh and Mary Kupelian

28 Architectural Typology of Historic Coptic Churches from Oxyrhynchos to Dayr al-Ganadla

Sami Sabri Shaker

End Matter

Abbreviations

Bibliography