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Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt: Volume 1: Akhmim and Sohag

Gawdat Gabra and Hany N. Takla

Abstract

Christianity and monasticism have flourished along the Nile Valley in the Sohag region of Upper Egypt from as early as the 4th century until the present day. Chapters examine various aspects of Coptic civilization in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Sohag over the past 1700 years. Many of the studies center on the person and legacy of the great Coptic saint, Shenoute the Archimandrite (348–466 ce), looking at his preserved writings, his life, his place in Pachomian monasticism, his relations with the patriarchs in Alexandria, and the life in his monastic system. Other studies deal with the ar ... More

Keywords: Christianity, monasticism, Nile Valley, Sohag, Upper Egypt, Coptology, Coptic civilization, Shenoute, patriarchs, Alexandria

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2008 Print ISBN-13: 9789774161223
Published to Cairo Scholarship Online: September 2011 DOI:10.5743/cairo/9789774161223.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Gawdat Gabra, editor

Hany N. Takla, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Illustrations

Contributors

Foreword

Introduction

1 “Do not Believe Every Word Like the Fool … !”

Heike Behlmer

2 Some Aspects of Volume 8 of Shenoute's Canons*

Anne Boud'hors

3 Care for the Sick in Shenoute's Monasteries

Andrew Crislip

4 Shenoute's Place in the History of Monasticism

Stephen Emmel

5 Pachomius and the White Monastery

James E. Goehring

6 The Role of the Female Elder in Shenoute's White Monastery1

Rebecca Krawiec

7 The Ancient Rules of Shenoute's Monastic Federation

Bentley Layton

8 The Fate of the White Monastery Library

CatherineLouis

9 The Coptic Life of Shenoute

Nina Lubomierski

10 Shenoute as Reflected in the Vita and the Difnar

Nashaat Mekhaiel

11 The Relationship of St. Shenoute of Atripe with his Contemporary Patriarchs of Alexandria

Samuel Moawad

12 Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the Panopolitan Region Between Lykopolis and Nag Hammadi

Siegfried G. Richter

13 Monks and Scholars in the Panopolite Nome the Epigraphic Evidence

Sofia Schaten and JacquesVan Der Vliet

14 Searching for Shenoute

Mark N. Swanson

15 Biblical Manuscripts of the Monastery of St. Shenoute the Archimandrite

Hany N. Takla

16 Once more into the Desert of Apa Shenoute

Janet Timbie

17 Bohairic Liturgical Texts Related to St. Shenoute1

Youhanna Nessim Youssef

18 Liturgy in the White Monastery

Fr. Ugo Zanetti

19 Akhmim as a Source of Textiles

Cäcilia Fluck

20 Snapshots on the Sculptural Heritage of the White Monastery at Sohag

Suzana Hodak

21 The Triconch Sanctuaries of Sohag

Dale Kinney

22 Two Witnesses of Christian Life in the Area of Balyana

Ashraf Alexandre Sadek

23 Toward an Understanding of the ‘Akhmim Style’ Icons and Ciboria

Zuzana Skálová

24 Coptic Art During the Ottoman Period

Fr. Bigoul al-Suriany

25 The Red Monastery Conservation Project, 2006 and 2007

Elizabeth S. Bolman

End Matter

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