- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 “Do not Believe Every Word Like the Fool … !” -
2 Some Aspects of Volume 8 of Shenoute's Canons* -
3 Care for the Sick in Shenoute's Monasteries -
4 Shenoute's Place in the History of Monasticism -
5 Pachomius and the White Monastery -
6 The Role of the Female Elder in Shenoute's White Monastery1 -
7 The Ancient Rules of Shenoute's Monastic Federation -
8 The Fate of the White Monastery Library -
9 The Coptic Life of Shenoute -
10 Shenoute as Reflected in the Vita and the Difnar -
11 The Relationship of St. Shenoute of Atripe with his Contemporary Patriarchs of Alexandria -
12 Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the Panopolitan Region Between Lykopolis and Nag Hammadi -
13 Monks and Scholars in the Panopolite Nome the Epigraphic Evidence -
14 Searching for Shenoute -
15 Biblical Manuscripts of the Monastery of St. Shenoute the Archimandrite -
16 Once more into the Desert of Apa Shenoute -
17 Bohairic Liturgical Texts Related to St. Shenoute1 -
18 Liturgy in the White Monastery -
19 Akhmim as a Source of Textiles -
20 Snapshots on the Sculptural Heritage of the White Monastery at Sohag -
21 The Triconch Sanctuaries of Sohag -
22 Two Witnesses of Christian Life in the Area of Balyana -
23 Toward an Understanding of the ‘Akhmim Style’ Icons and Ciboria -
24 Coptic Art During the Ottoman Period -
25 The Red Monastery Conservation Project, 2006 and 2007 - Abbreviations
- Bibliography
Once more into the Desert of Apa Shenoute
Once more into the Desert of Apa Shenoute
Further Thoughts on BN 68
- Chapter:
- (p.169) 16 Once more into the Desert of Apa Shenoute
- Source:
- Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt
- Author(s):
Gawdat Gabra
Hany N. Takla
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
This chapter presents a further analysis of the manuscript known as BN Copte 68, a trilingual (Coptic-Greek-Arabic) paper codex written in the 15th to 16th centuries and containing instructions for worshipers and liturgical readings. It examines a specific rite that stays very close to the main monastery and church, asking whether it directs the worshipers around the entire domain of Apa Shenoute or confines them to the small area around the main monastery. It also considers the sermon of Shenoute, Good is the Time for Launching a Boat to Sail, which was read during the rite, and whether it helps us understand the rite.
Keywords: Shenoute, BN Copte 68, manuscripts, liturgical readings, rites
Cairo Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 “Do not Believe Every Word Like the Fool … !” -
2 Some Aspects of Volume 8 of Shenoute's Canons* -
3 Care for the Sick in Shenoute's Monasteries -
4 Shenoute's Place in the History of Monasticism -
5 Pachomius and the White Monastery -
6 The Role of the Female Elder in Shenoute's White Monastery1 -
7 The Ancient Rules of Shenoute's Monastic Federation -
8 The Fate of the White Monastery Library -
9 The Coptic Life of Shenoute -
10 Shenoute as Reflected in the Vita and the Difnar -
11 The Relationship of St. Shenoute of Atripe with his Contemporary Patriarchs of Alexandria -
12 Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the Panopolitan Region Between Lykopolis and Nag Hammadi -
13 Monks and Scholars in the Panopolite Nome the Epigraphic Evidence -
14 Searching for Shenoute -
15 Biblical Manuscripts of the Monastery of St. Shenoute the Archimandrite -
16 Once more into the Desert of Apa Shenoute -
17 Bohairic Liturgical Texts Related to St. Shenoute1 -
18 Liturgy in the White Monastery -
19 Akhmim as a Source of Textiles -
20 Snapshots on the Sculptural Heritage of the White Monastery at Sohag -
21 The Triconch Sanctuaries of Sohag -
22 Two Witnesses of Christian Life in the Area of Balyana -
23 Toward an Understanding of the ‘Akhmim Style’ Icons and Ciboria -
24 Coptic Art During the Ottoman Period -
25 The Red Monastery Conservation Project, 2006 and 2007 - Abbreviations
- Bibliography
