Christianity and monasticism in Aswan and Nubia / edited by Gawdat Gabra, Hany N. Takla.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saint Mark Foundation (5th : 2010 : Aswān, Egypt), creator.

Contributor:

Saint Mark Foundation.

Saint Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society.

Takla, Hany N., editor.

Gabra, Gawdat, editor.

Series:

Christianity and monasticism in Egypt ; v. 5.

Christianity and monasticism in Egypt.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monasticism and religious orders--Nubia--History.

Monasticism and religious orders.

Monasticism and religious orders--Egypt--History.

Aswān (Egypt : Province)--Church history.

Aswān (Egypt : Province).

Nubia--Church history.

Nubia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Edition:

Electronic edition.

Place of Publication:

Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Christianity and monasticism have flourished along the Nile Valley in the Aswan region of Upper Egypt and in what was once Nubia, from as early as the fourth century until the present day. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from around the world, examine various aspects of Coptic civilization in Aswan and Nubia over the past centuries. The complexity of Christian identity in Nubia, as distinct from Egypt, is examined in the context of church ritual and architecture. Many of the studies explore Coptic material culture: inscriptions, art, architecture, and ar

Contents:

Coptic ostraca from Hagr Edfu / Anke Ilona Blöbaum

Imagining Macedonius, the first Bishop of Philae / James E. Goehring

Apa Hadra (Hidra) in the Difnar / Nashaat Mekhaiel

Christianity on Philae / Samuel Moawad

The indexing of manuscripts of the Monastery of the Great Saint Pachomius in Edfu / Fr. Angelous el-Naqlouny

The beginnings of Christianity in Nubia / Siegfried G. Richter

A foreshadowing of the desert spirituality in ancient Nubia and Upper Egypt / Ashraf Alexandre Sadek

Contested frontiers : southern Egypt and northern Nubia, AD 300-1500 : the evidence of the inscriptions / Jacques van der Vliet

The veneration of saints in Aswan and Nubia / Youhanna Nessim Youssef

Dayr al-Kubbaniya : review of the documentation on the "Isisberg" Monastery ; The development of the church at Dayr Anba Hadra : a study of the plasterwork and dated inscriptions ; An updated plan of the church at Dayr Qubbat al-Hawa / Renate Dekker

The Christian wall paintings from the Temple of Isis at Aswan revisited / Jitse H.E. Dijkstra and Gertrud J.M. van Loon

Monastic life in Makuria / Włodzimierz Godlewski

Christian Aswan in the modern era and the history of its cathedral / Metropolitan Hedra

The word and the flesh / Karel C. Innemée

The ascension scene in the apse of the church at Dayr Qubbat al-Hawwa : a comparative study / Mary Kupelian

The Nubian marble object preserved in Dayr al-Suryan in Wadi al-Natrun / Bishop Martyros

The digital 3D virtual reconstruction of the monastic church, Qubbat al-Hawa / Howard Middleton-Jones

Christian objects in the Aswan and Nubia museums / Atif Naguib

Sources for the study of late antique and early medieval Hagr Edfu / Elisabeth R. O'Connell

Christianity in Kom Ombo / Adel F. Sadek

Identification of the monastery of the Nubians in Wadi al-Natrun / Fr. Bigoul al-Suriany

Monneret de Villard (1881-1954) and Nubia / Fr. Awad Wadi

The conservation of the mural paintings of St. Hatre Monastery / Ashraf Nageh.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781617975424

1617975427

9781617973598

1617973599

9781617975660

1617975664

OCLC:

891449160