The Literary Coptic Manuscripts In The As Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum In Moscow

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The Literary Coptic Manuscripts in the A.S. Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum in Moscow

Author : A.I. Elanskaya
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004312846
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Literary Coptic Manuscripts in the A.S. Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum in Moscow written by A.I. Elanskaya and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the first complete publication of the collection of Coptic literary manuscripts now in the A.S. Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, Moscow. The collection formed in 1870-1908 by Vladimir Golenischev is of great value since it covers almost the entire field of early Christian literature in Egypt and substantially aids to fill up serious lacunae in many well-known literary works, to say nothing of the texts hitherto unknown. Important is also the fact that Coptica Golenischeviana largely derives from the library of St. Shenoute's monastery at Sohag, this virtual National Library of Christian Egypt, the source of the riches of the museums and libraries of Paris, Vienna, Berlin etc.

Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books

Author : Pasquale Orsini
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110575590
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books written by Pasquale Orsini and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains a critical review of data, results and open problems concerning the principal Greek and Coptic majuscule bookhands, based on previous research of the author, revised and updated to offer an overview of the different graphic phenomena. Although the various chapters address the history of different types of scripts (i.e. biblical majuscule, sloping poitend majuscule, liturgical majuscule, epigraphic and monumental scripts), their juxtaposition allows us to identify common issues of the comparative method of palaeography. From an overall critical assessment of these aspects the impossibility of applying a unique historical paradigm to interpret the formal expressions and the history of the different bookhands comes up, due to the fact that each script follows different paths. Particular attention is also devoted to the use of Greek majuscules in the writing of ancient Christian books. A modern and critical awareness of palaeographic method may help to place the individual witnesses in the context of the main graphic trends, in the social and cultural environments in which they developed, and in a more accurate chronological framework.

Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty

Author : Ariel G. Lopez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520954920
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty written by Ariel G. Lopez and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shenoute of Atripe: stern abbot, loquacious preacher, patron of the poor and scourge of pagans in fifth-century Egypt. This book studies his numerous Coptic writings and finds them to be the most important literary source for the study of society, economy and religion in late antique Egypt. The issues and concerns Shenoute grappled with on a daily basis, Ariel Lopez argues, were not local problems, unique to one small corner of the ancient world. Rather, they are crucial to interpreting late antiquity as a historical period—rural patronage, religious intolerance, the Christian care of the poor and the local impact of the late Roman state. His little known writings provide us not only with a rare opportunity to see the life of a holy man as he himself saw it, but also with a privileged window into his world. Lopez brings Shenoute to prominence as witness of and participant in the major transformations of his time.

Archives in Russia: A Directory and Bibliographic Guide to Holdings in Moscow and St.Petersburg

Author : Patricia Kennedy Grimsted
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317476549
Total Pages : 1624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Archives in Russia: A Directory and Bibliographic Guide to Holdings in Moscow and St.Petersburg written by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 1624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive directory and bibliographic guide to Russian archives and manuscript repositories in the capital cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg. It is an essential resource for any researcher interested in Russian sources for topics in diplomatic, military, and church history; art; dance; film; literature; science; ethnolography; and geography. The first part lists general bibliographies of relevant reference literature, directories, bibliographic works, and specialized subject-related sources. In the following sections of the directory, archival listings are grouped in institutional categories. Coverage includes federal, ministerial, agency, presidential, local, university, Academy of Sciences, organizational, library, and museum holdings. Individual entries include the name of the repository (in Russian and English), basic information on location, staffing, institutional history, holdings, access, and finding aids. More comprehensive and up-to-date than the 1997 Russian Version, this edition includes Web-site information, dozens of additional repositories, several hundred more bibliographical entries, coverage of reorganization issues, four indexes, and a glossary.

The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East

Author : Richard Stoneman
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9491431048
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East written by Richard Stoneman and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2012 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander the Great of Macedon was no stranger to controversy in his own time. Conqueror of the Greek states, of Egypt and of the Persian Empire as well as many of the principalities of the Indus Valley, he nevertheless became revered as well as vilified. Was he simply a destroyer of the ancient civilizations and religions of these regions, or was he a hero of the Persian dynasties and of Islam? The conflicting views that were taken of him in the Middle East in his own time and the centuries that followed are still reflected in the tensions that exist between east and west today. The story of Alexander became the subject of legend in the medieval west, but was perhaps even more pervasive in the east. The Alexander Romance was translated into Syriac in the sixth century and may have become current in Persia as early as the third century AD. From these beginnings it reached into the Persian national epic, the Shahnameh, into Jewish traditions, and into the Quran and subsequent Arab romance. The papers in this volume all have the aim of deepening our understanding of this complex development. If we can understand better why Alexander is such an important figure in both east and west, we shall be a little closer to understanding what unites two often antipathetic worlds. This volume collects the papers delivered at the conference of the same title held at the University of Exeter from July 26-29 2010. More than half the papers were by invited speakers and were designed to provide a systematic view of the subject; the remainder were selected for their ability to carry research forward in an integrated way.

A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages

Author : David Zuwiyya
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004211934
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages by : David Zuwiyya

Download or read book A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages written by David Zuwiyya and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on decades of research on Alexander literature from all over the world, this book is bound to become a medievalist's best companion. It studies Alexander romances from the East and the West in literary form and content.

From the Nile to the Rhone and Beyond

Author : Mark Sheridan
Publisher : Mark Sheridan
ISBN 13 : 3830675585
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book From the Nile to the Rhone and Beyond written by Mark Sheridan and published by Mark Sheridan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The A to Z of the Coptic Church

Author : Gawdat Gabra
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810870576
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of the Coptic Church written by Gawdat Gabra and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first century, Saint Mark brought Christianity to Egypt and in so doing, formed the basis for the Coptic Orthodox Church. Today, Copts, members of the Coptic Church, compromise the largest Christian Community in the Middle East. The Coptic Church is more than 19 centuries old and has produced thousands of texts and biblical and theological studies. During the last half of the 20th century, however, economic and political discrimination has forced between 400,000 and one million Copts to emigrate from Egypt, with the majority settling in North America and Australia. The A to Z of the Coptic Church details the history of one of the oldest Christian churches. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and more than 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important people, organizations, and structures; the theology and practices of the church; its literature and liturgy; and monasteries and churches.

Among Women

Author : Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292774346
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Among Women written by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's and men's worlds were largely separate in ancient Mediterranean societies, and, in consequence, many women's deepest personal relationships were with other women. Yet relatively little scholarly or popular attention has focused on women's relationships in antiquity, in contrast to recent interest in the relationships between men in ancient Greece and Rome. The essays in this book seek to close this gap by exploring a wide variety of textual and archaeological evidence for women's homosocial and homoerotic relationships from prehistoric Greece to fifth-century CE Egypt. Drawing on developments in feminist theory, gay and lesbian studies, and queer theory, as well as traditional textual and art historical methods, the contributors to this volume examine representations of women's lives with other women, their friendships, and sexual subjectivity. They present new interpretations of the evidence offered by the literary works of Sappho, Ovid, and Lucian; Bronze Age frescoes and Greek vase painting, funerary reliefs, and other artistic representations; and Egyptian legal documents.

Monastic Bodies

Author : Caroline T. Schroeder
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203380
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Monastic Bodies written by Caroline T. Schroeder and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shenoute of Atripe led the White Monastery, a community of several thousand male and female Coptic monks in Upper Egypt, between approximately 395 and 465 C.E. Shenoute's letters, sermons, and treatises—one of the most detailed bodies of writing to survive from any early monastery—provide an unparalleled resource for the study of early Christian monasticism and asceticism. In Monastic Bodies, Caroline Schroeder offers an in-depth examination of the asceticism practiced at the White Monastery using diverse sources, including monastic rules, theological treatises, sermons, and material culture. Schroeder details Shenoute's arduous disciplinary code and philosophical structure, including the belief that individual sin corrupted not only the individual body but the entire "corporate body" of the community. Thus the purity of the community ultimately depended upon the integrity of each individual monk. Shenoute's ascetic discourse focused on purity of the body, but he categorized as impure not only activities such as sex but any disobedience and other more general transgressions. Shenoute emphasized the important practices of discipline, or askesis, in achieving this purity. Contextualizing Shenoute within the wider debates about asceticism, sexuality, and heresy that characterized late antiquity, Schroeder compares his views on bodily discipline, monastic punishments, the resurrection of the body, the incarnation of Christ, and monastic authority with those of figures such as Cyril of Alexandria, Paulinus of Nola, and Pachomius.

A New History of African Christian Thought

Author : David Tonghou Ngong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135106266
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book A New History of African Christian Thought written by David Tonghou Ngong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Tonghou Ngong offers a comprehensive view of African Christian thought that includes North Africa in antiquity as well as Sub-Saharan Africa from the period of colonial missionary activity to the present. Challenging conventional colonial divisions of Africa, A New History of African Christian Thought demonstrates that important continuities exist across the continent. Chapters written by specialists in African Christian thought reflect the issues—both ancient and modern—in which Christian Africa has impacted the shape of Christian belief from the beginning of the movement up to the present day.

The History of Byzantine and Eastern Canon Law to 1500

Author : Wilfried Hartmann
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813216796
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The History of Byzantine and Eastern Canon Law to 1500 written by Wilfried Hartmann and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Formation of Ecclesiastical Law in the Early Church -- 2. Sources of the Greek Canon Law to the Quinisext Council (691/2): Councils and Church Fathers -- 3. Byzantine Canon Law to 1100 -- 4. Byzantine Canon Law from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Centuries -- 5. Sources of Canon Law in the Eastern Churches -- Index of Councils and Synods -- General Index.

The Crucified Book

Author : Anne Starr Kreps
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812298489
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Crucified Book written by Anne Starr Kreps and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Crucified Book, Anne Kreps shows how the Gospel of Truth, a second-century text associated with the Christian Platonist Valentinus, and its ideas about the nature of authoritative writing engaged with Greco-Roman culture and cohered with Jewish and Christian ideas about books in antiquity.

Der Same Seths

Author : Gesine Schenke Robinson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004226249
Total Pages : 1472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Der Same Seths written by Gesine Schenke Robinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a lifetime of scholarship and teaching, Hans-Martin Schenke produced a large number of publications in the fields of New Testament, Gnosticism, and Coptology. This collection of his essays and book reviews bears witness to his love for the linguistic aspects of Coptology and illustrates his wide-ranging interest in the development of early Christianity. His insights and deep understanding of Gnostic beliefs and systems as a background for interpreting the New Testament make his contributions to this discipline very rewarding and indispensable reading. Im Laufe seines langen wissenschaftlichen Lebens hat Hans-Martin Schenke eine Fülle von Veröffentlichungen in den Bereichen Neues Testament, Gnosisforschung und Koptologie hervorgebracht. Die hier vorliegende Sammlung seiner Aufsätze und Rezensionen bekundet den Reichtum seines Schaffens. Sie zeugt von seiner Liebe zur koptischen Linguistik und veranschaulicht die Spannweite seines Interesses an der Entwicklung des frühen Christentums. Seine tiefe Kenntnis gnostischer Vorstellungen und Systeme als Hintergrund für das Verständnis des Neuen Testaments lässt seine Beiträge zu einer unentbehrlichen Fundgrube und seine Einsichten zu einem lohnenden Lesevergnügen werden.

For the Children, Perfect Instruction

Author : Hans-Gebhard Bethge
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004439927
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book For the Children, Perfect Instruction written by Hans-Gebhard Bethge and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twenty-seven studies by colleagues, students, and friends of Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Schenke honors his many contributions to the study of Gnosticism and related religious phenomena in Antiquity, Coptic language and literature, and the New Testament.

The Canons of Our Fathers

Author : Bentley Layton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191019224
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Canons of Our Fathers written by Bentley Layton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first publication of a very early set of Christian monastic rules from Roman Egypt, accompanied by four preliminary chapters discussing their historical and social context and their character as rules. These rules were found quoted in the writings of the great Egyptian monastic leader Shenoute. Designed for a federation of monks and nuns who banded together about 360 CE—forming the so-called "White Monastery Federation"—the rules date back to the fourth and fifth centuries. New historical evidence is presented for the founding of the Federation. Providing almost the earliest evidence for Christian communal (cenobitic) monasticism, the rules depict many intimate aspects of ascetic practice. Details of monastic daily life are mentioned in passing in the rules, and the author uses these details to describe their picture of monastic life under five general topics: the monastery as a physical plant, the human makeup of the community, ascetic observances, the hierarchy of authority, and the daily liturgy. The book includes a clear English translation of the rules accompanied by the original Coptic text, amounting to five hundred and ninety-five entries.

The African Memory of Mark

Author : Thomas C. Oden
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830868887
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The African Memory of Mark written by Thomas C. Oden and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We often regard the author of the Gospel of Mark as an obscure figure about whom we know little. Many would be surprised to learn how much fuller a picture of Mark exists within widespread African tradition, tradition that holds that Mark himself was from North Africa, that he founded the church in Alexandria, that he was an eyewitness to the Last Supper and Pentecost, that he was related not only to Barnabas but to Peter as well and accompanied him on many of his travels. In this provocative reassessment of early church tradition, Thomas C. Oden begins with the palette of New Testament evidence and adds to it the range of colors from traditional African sources, including synaxaries (compilations of short biographies of saints to be read on feast days), archaeological sites, non-Western historical documents and ancient churches. The result is a fresh and illuminating portrait of Mark, one that is deeply rooted in African memory and seldom viewed appreciatively in the West.