Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt: Volume 1

Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt: Volume 1

Akhmim and Sohag

Takla, Hany N.; Gabra, Gawdat

American University in Cairo Press

03/2025

372

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9781649034311

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List of Illustrations
Contributors

Foreword
Fawzy Estafanous
Introduction
Gawdat Gabra and Hany N. Takla

Language and Literature
1. "Do Not Believe Every Word Like the Fool . . . !": Rhetorical Strategies in Shenoute, Canon 6
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 Monastery
Rebecca Krawiec
7. The Ancient Rules of Shenoute's Monastic Federation
Bentley Layton
8. The Fate of the White Monastery Library
Catherine Louis
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 Jacques van der Vliet
14. Searching for Shenoute: A Copto-Arabic Homilary in Paris, BN arabe 4796
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: Further Thoughts on BN 68
Janet Timbie
17. Bohairic Liturgical Texts Related to St. Shenoute
Youhanna Nessim Youssef
18. Liturgy in the White Monastery
Fr. Ugo Zanetti

Art, Archaeology, and Material Culture
19. Akhmim as a Source of Textiles
Caecilia Fluck
20. Snapshots on the Sculptural Heritage of the White Monastery at Sohag: The Wall Niches
Suzana Hodak
21. The Triconch Sanctuaries of Sohag
Dale Kinney
22. Two Witnesses of Christian Life in the Area of Balyana: The Church of the Virgin and the Monastery of Anba Moses
Ashraf Alexandre Sadek
23. Toward an Understanding of the 'Akhmim Style' Icons and Ciboria: The Indigenous and the Foreign
Zuzana Skalova
24. Coptic Art during the Ottoman Period: Documentation of the Akhmimic Style
Fr. Bigoul al-Suriany

Preservation
25. The Red Monastery Conservation Project, 2006 and 2007 Campaigns: Contributing to the Corpus
of Late Antique Art
Elizabeth S. Bolman

List of Abbreviations
Bibliography
Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt; Coptic Studies; Gabra, Gawdat; New studies in Christianity in the Sohag region; RELIGION / Monasticism,RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology,RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations; Volume 2: Nag Hammadi-Esna