The Legacy Of Demetrius Of Alexandria 189 231 Ce

Author : Maged S. A. Mikhail
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315641638
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Demetrius of Alexandria (189-231 CE) written by Maged S. A. Mikhail and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of Demetrius of Alexandria (189-232 ce), who generated a neglected, yet remarkable hagiographic program that secured him a positive legacy throughout the Middle Ages and the modern era. Drawing upon Patristic, Coptic, and Arabic sources spanning a millennium, the analysis contextualizes the Demetrian corpus at its various stages of composition and presents the totality of his hagiographic corpus in translation. This volume constitutes a definitive study of Demetrius, but more broadly, it provides a clearly delineated hagiographic program and charts its evolution against a backdrop of political developments and intercommunal interactions. This fascinating study is a useful resource for students of Demetrius and the Church in Egypt in this period, but also for anyone working on Early Christianity and hagiography more generally.

Author : Maged Mikhail
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317280598
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Demetrius of Alexandria 189-232 CE written by Maged Mikhail and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of Demetrius of Alexandria (189–232 ce), who generated a neglected, yet remarkable hagiographic program that secured him a positive legacy throughout the Middle Ages and the modern era. Drawing upon Patristic, Coptic, and Arabic sources spanning a millennium, the analysis contextualizes the Demetrian corpus at its various stages of composition and presents the totality of his hagiographic corpus in translation. This volume constitutes a definitive study of Demetrius, but more broadly, it provides a clearly delineated hagiographic program and charts its evolution against a backdrop of political developments and intercommunal interactions. This fascinating study is a useful resource for students of Demetrius and the Church in Egypt in this period, but also for anyone working on Early Christianity and hagiography more generally.

Author : M. David Litwa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009449559
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Christianity in Alexandria written by M. David Litwa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing the Nag Hammadi codices and early Christian writings, this book explores the earliest development of Christianity in Alexandria.

Author : Angie Heo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520970128
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Lives of Saints written by Angie Heo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Arab Spring in 2011 and ISIS’s rise in 2014, Egypt’s Copts have attracted attention worldwide as the collateral damage of revolution and as victims of sectarian strife. Countering the din of persecution rhetoric and Islamophobia, The Political Lives of Saints journeys into the quieter corners of divine intercession to consider what martyrs, miracles, and mysteries have to do with the routine challenges faced by Christians and Muslims living together under the modern nation-state. Drawing on years of extensive fieldwork, Angie Heo argues for understanding popular saints as material media that organize social relations between Christians and Muslims in Egypt toward varying political ends. With an ethnographer’s eye for traces of antiquity, she deciphers how long-cherished imaginaries of holiness broker bonds of revolutionary sacrifice, reconfigure national sites of sacred territory, and pose sectarian threats to security and order. A study of tradition and nationhood at their limits, The Political Lives of Saints shows that Coptic Orthodoxy is a core domain of minoritarian regulation and authoritarian rule, powerfully reversing the recurrent thesis of its impending extinction in the Arab Muslim world.

Author : Michael J. Kok
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1451490224
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gospel on the Margins written by Michael J. Kok and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite virtually unanimous patristic association of the Gospel of Mark with the apostle Peter, the Gospel was mostly neglected by those same writers. Michael J. Kok surveys the second-century reception of Mark, from Papias of Hierapolis to Clement of Alexandria, and finds that the patristic writers were hesitant to embrace Mark because they perceived it to be too easily adapted to rival Christian factions. Kok describes the story of Marks Petrine origins as a second-century move to assert ownership of the Gospel on the part of the emerging Orthodox Church.

Author : Elizabeth Agaiby
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004383271
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arabic Life of Antony Attributed to Serapion of Thmuis written by Elizabeth Agaiby and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a first edition and translation of The Arabic Life of Antony attributed to Serapion of Thmuis, Elizabeth Agaiby demonstrates how the redacted account bears witness to the reinterpretation of the religious memory of Antony in the Coptic Orthodox Church.

Author : William V. Harris
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047406389
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece written by William V. Harris and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume approaches the history of the great city of Alexandria from a variety of directions: its demography, the interaction between Greek and Egyptian and between Jews and Greeks, the nature of its civil institutions and social relations, and its religious, and intellectual history.

Author : Roy MacLeod
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857714384
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Library of Alexandria written by Roy MacLeod and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world, containing thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature and art and artefacts of ancient Egypt. This book demonstrates that Alexandria became - through the contemporary reputation of its library - a point of confluence for Greek, Roman, Jewish and Syrian culture that drew scholars and statesmen from throughout the ancient world. It also explores the histories of Alexander the Great and of Alexandria itself, the greatest city of the ancient world. This new paperback edition offers general readers an accessible introduction to the history of this magnificent yet still mysterious institution from the time of its foundation up to its tragic destruction.

Author : Maged S. A. Mikhail
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857725580
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt written by Maged S. A. Mikhail and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conquest of Egypt by Islamic armies under the command of Amr ibn al-As in the seventh century transformed medieval Egyptian society. Seeking to uncover the broader cultural changes of the period by drawing on a wide array of literary and documentary sources, Maged Mikhail stresses the cultural and institutional developments that punctuated the histories of Christians and Muslims in the province under early Islamic rule. From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt traces how the largely agrarian Egyptian society responded to the influx of Arabic and Islam, the means by which the Coptic Church constructed its sectarian identity, the Islamisation of the administrative classes and how these factors converged to create a new medieval society. The result is a fascinating and essential study for scholars of Byzantine and early Islamic Egypt.

Author : J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892362928
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexandria and Alexandrianism written by J. Paul Getty Museum and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1996-09-26 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great seats of learning and repositories of knowledge in the ancient world, Alexandria, and the great school of thought to which it gave its name, made a vital contribution to the development of intellectual and cultural heritage in the Occidental world. This book brings together twenty papers delivered at a symposium held at the J. Paul Getty Museum on the subject of Alexandria and Alexandrianism. Subjects range from “The Library of Alexandria and Ancient Egyptian Learning” and “Alexander’s Alexandria” to “Alexandria and the Origins of Baroque Architecture.” With nearly two hundred illustrations, this handsome volume presents some of the world’s leading scholars on the continuing influence and fascination of this great city. The distinguished contributors include Peter Green, R. R. R. Smith, and the late Bernard Bothmer.