Christianity and monasticism in Aswan and Nubia. ([2013])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gawdat Gabra, Hany N. Takla.
• Editors: Gabra, Gawdat; Takla, Hany N
• Other Names: Saint Mark Foundation.; Saint Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society.
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Cairo New York : The American University in Cairo Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 309 pages), illustrations, maps, plans
• Subjects: 281.72; Monasticism and religious orders -- Egypt -- Aswān (Province) -- History; Monasticism and religious orders -- Nubia -- History; RELIGION -- Christianity -- Orthodox; RELIGION -- Monasticism; Monasticism and religious orders; Aswān (Egypt : Province) -- Church history; Nubia -- Church history; Africa -- Nubia; Egypt -- Aswān (Province); Electronic books; Church history; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781617973598; 1617973599
• Related ISBNs: 9789774165610; 9774165616; 9781617975660; 1617975664
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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