Christianity and monasticism in northern Egypt : Beni Suef, Giza, Cairo, and the Nile Delta / edited by Gawdat Gabra, Hany N. Takla.

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  • Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
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xxiv, 359 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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    • "A Saint Mark Foundation book."
    • "[C]ontains the essays presented at the seventh international symposium of the St. Mark Foundation for Coptic History Studies and the St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society. The symposium was held on February 8-12, 2015 in the Monastery of Saint Menas (Dayr Mari Mina) near Alexandria"--Foreword, page xix.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-359).
    Contents
    • John of Barullos (540-615) / Bishop Kyrillos
    • The Relationship between the Monks of Northern Egypt and the patriarchs of the egyptian church / David Brakke
    • Saint Minas monastery in Arabic sources / Sherin Sadek El Gendi
    • The Bashmurite revolts and the 'Bashmuric dialect,' Frank Feder
    • Toward the localization of the Hennaton monastic complex, Mary Ghattas
    • The Pachomian federation and lower Egypt : the ties that bind / James E. Goehring
    • The relations between the coptic church and the armenian church from the time of Muhammad Ali to the present (1805-2015) / Mary Kupelian
    • Saint Barsoum the naked and his veneration at al-Ma'sara (Deir Shahran) / Bishop Martyros
    • The traditions of the holy family and the development of christianity in the Nile Delta / Ashraf Alexandre Sadek
    • Anba ruways and the cathedral of Saint Mark / Adel F. Sadek
    • The perception of St. Athanasius of Alexandria in later coptic literature / Ibrahim Saweros
    • The discovery of papyri from Turah at Dayr al-Qusayr (Dayr Arsaniyus) and its legacy / Caroline T. Schroeder
    • Nitria / Mark Sheridan
    • Yuhanna al-Samannudi, the founder of national coptic philology in the middle ages / Adel Sidarus
    • The arabic version of the miracles of Apa Mena Based on two unpublished manuscripts in the collection of the St. Shenouda the Archimandrite coptic society in Los Angeles / Hany N. Takla
    • Life of Pope Cyril VI (Kyrillos VI) / Teddawos Ava Mine and Youhanna Nessim Youssef
    • The veneration of Anba Hadid and the Nile Delta in the thirteenth century / Asuka Tsuji
    • Kellia and monastic epigraphy / Jacques van der Vliet
    • Butrus al-Sadamanti al-Armani (Peter of Sadamant "the Armenian") / Fr. Awad Wadi
    • Julius of Akfahs : the martyrdom of John and Simon / Youhanna Nessim Youssef
    • The Bohairic martyrs acts as a genre of religious discourse / Ewa D. Zakrzewska
    • Remnants of a Byzantine church at Athribis / Tomasz Górecki
    • Architecture in Kellia / Gisèle Hadji-Minaglou
    • Kellia : its decoration in painting and stucco / Karel Innemée
    • Highlights from the polish excavations at Marea/Philoxenite 2000-14 / Daria Tarara and Krzysztof Babraj
    • Conservation of mural paintings in the coptic museum / Michael Jones.
    ISBN
    • 9774167775 ((hardcover))
    • 9789774167775 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    2017446611
    OCLC
    951452852
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