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- Book Review: Greetings In The Lord
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (review by Roberta Mazza) AnneMarie Luijendijk, Greetings in the Lord: Early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Harvard Theological Studies 60. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Divinity School, 2008. The city of Oxyrhynchus has...
- Book Review: The Lost History Of Christianity
Religion and Ethics News Weekly (Review by J. Peter Pham) The Lost History of Christianity Philip Jenkins (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of the Humanities in History and Religious Studies at Penn State University) HarperOne, 2008 Had the author been satisfied...
- Revisiting Coptic Cairo
Egyptian Gazette (Navigate to Tourism section to find the story, which will expire in the next few days) Old Cairo (Masr al-Qadima in Arabic) describes the area that grew up around the Roman fortress of Babylon, built in the time of Augustus after his...
- Fourth Century Cave Found In Sinai
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A rock-hewn cave used by Christians hiding from official church authorities has been found by chance at Hammamat Pharaon on the west Sinai coast, reports Nevine El-Aref It was an ordinary morning at Hammamat Pharaon (Pharaoh's...
- Of Fayoum's Mummies And Churches
eTurboNews (Hazel Heyer) Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced last week a Russian-American archaeological mission has unearthed a number of well-preserved Graeco-Roman mummies covered in cartons. They...
Egypt
Egyptian writer defends story of early Christians
Daily Nation
Egyptian novelist and scholar Youssef Ziedan has angered the Egyptian Coptic Church with his best-selling novel Azazeel, the story of a 5th-century Egyptian-born monk who witnesses early Christian disputes.
Bishop Bishoy, the secretary of the church’s Holy Synod, said Ziedan “intended to destroy authentic Christian doctrine” and accused him of interfering in internal Christian matters.
But in an interview with Reuters, Ziedan said church elders were upset he had challenged their authority as the heirs of St Mark the Apostle and their exclusive claim to Egyptian history between the end of paganism and the arrival of Islam.
- Book Review: Greetings In The Lord
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (review by Roberta Mazza) AnneMarie Luijendijk, Greetings in the Lord: Early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Harvard Theological Studies 60. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Divinity School, 2008. The city of Oxyrhynchus has...
- Book Review: The Lost History Of Christianity
Religion and Ethics News Weekly (Review by J. Peter Pham) The Lost History of Christianity Philip Jenkins (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of the Humanities in History and Religious Studies at Penn State University) HarperOne, 2008 Had the author been satisfied...
- Revisiting Coptic Cairo
Egyptian Gazette (Navigate to Tourism section to find the story, which will expire in the next few days) Old Cairo (Masr al-Qadima in Arabic) describes the area that grew up around the Roman fortress of Babylon, built in the time of Augustus after his...
- Fourth Century Cave Found In Sinai
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A rock-hewn cave used by Christians hiding from official church authorities has been found by chance at Hammamat Pharaon on the west Sinai coast, reports Nevine El-Aref It was an ordinary morning at Hammamat Pharaon (Pharaoh's...
- Of Fayoum's Mummies And Churches
eTurboNews (Hazel Heyer) Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced last week a Russian-American archaeological mission has unearthed a number of well-preserved Graeco-Roman mummies covered in cartons. They...