Egypt
Coptic News and Archive (Howard Jones)
- Book Review: Moines Et Communautés Monastiques En Égypte (ive-viiie Siècles)
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Shawn W.J. Keough) Ewa Wipszycka, Moines et communautés monastiques en Égypte (IVe-VIIIe siècles). JJP supplement 11. Varsovie: Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 2009. Ewa Wipszycka's first contribution to...
- 5th Symposium On Coptic Studies
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) An excellent overview of the recent symposium. Coptic history never ceases to enthral. Jill Kamil attends this year's symposium near Aswan. Clockwise from top: the western corridor to the north of the apse of the Monastery...
- Interview With Dr. Gawdat Gabra
http://www.ambilacuk.com/coptic/index.html Thanks to Howard Middleton-Jones for sending me the link to his interview with the Coptologist Dr. Gawdat Gabra in Munster Germany, posted on the Coptic Research site. Please click on the photograph on the above...
- Coptic Studies
Desert Fathershttp://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/796/pe2.htmAn article looking at the Coptic monasteries and, in particular, the fate of the manuscripts of Deir Al-Surian: "Syrian monks had always frequented Wadi Al-Natrun ever since the fourth century....
- Sohag's Heritage In Focus
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/780/eg3.htmA week-long symposium on Christianity and monasticism opens today at Sohag's White Monastery: "Sohag has two monasteries, popularly known as the White and the Red, in reference to their construction in limestone...
Egypt
New Book: Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt Vol 2
Coptic News and Archive (Howard Jones)
The 2008 St Mark Foundation Symposium contribution papers are now published in the regular series of "Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt" - the current one is Volume 2: Nag Hammadi-Esna
Here are the details and contributors:
Edited by Gawdat Gabra
Hany Takla
New studies in Christianity in the Sohag region
Christianity and monasticism have flourished in Upper Egypt 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 along the Nile Valley from Nag Hammadi (associated with the famous discovery of Gnostic papyri) through Luxor and Coptos and south to Esna over the past seventeen hundred years, looking at Coptic religious history, tradition, language, heritage, and material culture in the region through texts, art, architecture and archaeology.
- Book Review: Moines Et Communautés Monastiques En Égypte (ive-viiie Siècles)
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Shawn W.J. Keough) Ewa Wipszycka, Moines et communautés monastiques en Égypte (IVe-VIIIe siècles). JJP supplement 11. Varsovie: Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 2009. Ewa Wipszycka's first contribution to...
- 5th Symposium On Coptic Studies
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) An excellent overview of the recent symposium. Coptic history never ceases to enthral. Jill Kamil attends this year's symposium near Aswan. Clockwise from top: the western corridor to the north of the apse of the Monastery...
- Interview With Dr. Gawdat Gabra
http://www.ambilacuk.com/coptic/index.html Thanks to Howard Middleton-Jones for sending me the link to his interview with the Coptologist Dr. Gawdat Gabra in Munster Germany, posted on the Coptic Research site. Please click on the photograph on the above...
- Coptic Studies
Desert Fathershttp://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/796/pe2.htmAn article looking at the Coptic monasteries and, in particular, the fate of the manuscripts of Deir Al-Surian: "Syrian monks had always frequented Wadi Al-Natrun ever since the fourth century....
- Sohag's Heritage In Focus
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/780/eg3.htmA week-long symposium on Christianity and monasticism opens today at Sohag's White Monastery: "Sohag has two monasteries, popularly known as the White and the Red, in reference to their construction in limestone...