- Title Pages
- Dedication
- 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
- 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 <i>Life of Ibrahim al-Fani</i>: A Coptic Saint of the Fourteenth Century
- 16 Snippets from the Past
- 17 Liturgy of the Monastery of al-Muharraq
- 18 <i>L</i>⋆ as a Secret Language
- 19 Bawit in the Twenty-first Century: Bibliography 1997–2014
- 20 Children’s Burials from Antinoopolis
- 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
- 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
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
The Monastery of Apollo at Bala’iza and Its Literary Texts
The Monastery of Apollo at Bala’iza and Its Literary Texts
- Chapter:
- (p.41) 5 The Monastery of Apollo at Bala’iza and Its Literary Texts
- Source:
- Christianity and Monasticism in Middle Egypt
- Author(s):
James E. Goehring
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
This chapter discusses the latest findings about the monastery of Apa Apollo in Balaʻiza, its inhabitants, and in particular the rich manuscript fragments found there. Evidence suggests that by the seventh–eighth centuries, the great tradition of the Church in its dominant role accounted for the vast majority of textual production in Egypt. At the same time, however, the continued preservation of so-called “gnostic” and other apocryphal texts, and the ongoing production of extra-ecclesiastical amulets and charms, represent a continuing, if limited, interest in such things among certain segments of the Coptic Christian population. In this regard, the ascetic inhabitants of the Monastery of Apollo appear to reflect the Coptic community as a whole. Predominantly aligned with the great tradition, elements that ran counter to it continued to find a limited place within the community.
Keywords: monastery, Apa Apollo, Balaʻiza, Coptic Christianity, manuscripts, Christians
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- 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
- 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 <i>Life of Ibrahim al-Fani</i>: A Coptic Saint of the Fourteenth Century
- 16 Snippets from the Past
- 17 Liturgy of the Monastery of al-Muharraq
- 18 <i>L</i>⋆ as a Secret Language
- 19 Bawit in the Twenty-first Century: Bibliography 1997–2014
- 20 Children’s Burials from Antinoopolis
- 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
- 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
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
