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  • Christianity and Monasticism in Aswan and Nubia

    Edited by Gawdat Gabra, Hani Takla ...
    Series series Christianity and Monasticism
    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 ... Read more

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  • Christianity and Monasticism in Alexandria and the Egyptian Deserts

    Edited by Gawdat Gabra, Hani N. Takla ...
    Series series Christianity and Monasticism
    The legacies of the Coptic Christian presence in Alexandria and the Egyptian Deserts from the fourth century to the present dayThe great city of Alexandria is undoubtedly the cradle of Egyptian Christianity, where the Catechetical School was established in the second century and became a leading center in the study of biblical exegesis and theology. According to tradition St. Mark the Evangelist ... Read more

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  • Christianity and Monasticism in Northern Egypt

    Beni Suef, Giza, Cairo, and the Nile Delta

    Edited by Gawdat Gabra, Hany N. Takla ...
    Series series Christianity and Monasticism
    Christianity and monasticism have long flourished in the northern part of Upper Egypt and in the Nile Delta, from Beni Suef to the Mediterranean coast. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from around the world, examine various aspects of Coptic civilization in northern Egypt over the past two millennia. The studies explore Coptic art and archaeology, ... Read more

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  • Christianity and Monasticism in Middle Egypt

    Minya and Asyut

    Edited by Gawdat Gabra, Hany N. Takla ...
    Series series Christianity and Monasticism
    Christianity and monasticism have long flourished along the Nile in Middle Egypt, the region stretching from al-Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus) to Dayr al-Ganadla. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from around the world, examine various aspects of Coptic civilization in Middle Egypt over the past two millennia. The studies explore Coptic art and archaeology, ... Read more

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  • Coptic Monasteries

    Egypt's Monastic Art and Architecture

    by Gawdat Gabra ...
    Egypt, the birthplace of communal monasticism, has a rich store of monasteries and monastic art. Coptic Monasteries takes the reader on a tour of the best preserved and most significant of these ancient religious centers, documenting in exhaustive detail the richness and the glory of the Coptic heritage. An informative introduction by Tim Vivian brings to life the early Christian era, with ... Read more

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  • The Text of a Coptic Monastic Discourse On Love and Self-Control

    Its Story from the Fourth Century to the Twenty-First

    by Carolyn Schneider ...
    Series Book 272 - Cistercian Studies Series
    This book introduces a beautiful fourth-century Coptic discourse on love and self-control in its first English translation. The text’s heading attributes it to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, but this attribution is questionable. Exploring issues of authorship and context, this book locates the origins of On Love and Self-Control in the Upper Egyptian Pachomian monastic community of the mid ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam

    Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam

    by G.W. Bowersock ...
    Series series Emblems of Antiquity
    Just prior to the rise of Islam in the sixth century AD, southern Arabia was embroiled in a violent conflict between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs. Though little known today, this was an international war that involved both the Byzantine Empire, which had established Christian churches in Ethiopia, and the Sasanian Empire in Persia, which supported the Jews in what became a proxy war ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam

    by Robert G. Hoyland ...
    This book offers a new approach to the vexing question of how to write the early history of Islam. The first part discusses the nature of the Muslim and non-Muslim source material for the seventh- and eighth-century Middle East and argues that by lessening the divide between these two traditions, which has largely been erected by modern scholarship, we can come to a better appreciation of this ... Read more

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  • Between Constantinople, the Papacy, and the Caliphate

    The Melkite Church in the Islamicate World, 634-969

    by Krzysztof Kościelniak ...
    This volume examines the Melkite church from the Arab invasion of Syria in 634 until 969. The Melkite Patriarchates were established in Antioch, Jerusalem and Alexandria and, following the Arab campaigns in Syria and Egypt, they all came under the new Muslim state. Over the next decades the Melkite church underwent a process of gradual marginalization, moving from the privileged position of the ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity

    Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early formation of Byzantium and the European Middle Ages. These ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • The Archaeology of Jerusalem

    From the Origins to the Ottomans

    by Katharina Galor, Hanswulf Bloedhorn ...
    In this sweeping and lavishly illustrated history, Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn survey nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem, from prehistoric times through the Ottoman period. The study is structured chronologically, exploring the city’s material culture, including fortifications and water systems as well as key sacred, civic, and domestic ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia

    A History

    by Dr. John Binns ...
    Surrounded by steep escarpments to the north, south and east, Ethiopia has always been geographically and culturally set apart. It has the longest archaeological record of any country in the world: indeed, this precipitous mountain land was where the human race began. It is also home to an ancient church with a remarkable legacy. The Church of Ethiopia is the only pre-colonial church in sub ... Read more

    $26.49 USD