Monastic Visions
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Elizabeth S. Bolman
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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The book reproduces the cleaned paintings for the first time. It also describes and analyzes their amalgam of Coptic (Egyptian Christian), Byzantine, and Arab s
Thomas Merton and the Monastic Vision
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Lawrence Cunningham
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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Cunningham (theology, U. of Notre Dame) explores Merton's monastic life and his subsequent growth into a modern-day spiritual master. Starting from Merton's ent
Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud
Language: en
Pages: 245
Authors: Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-23 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of striking parallels and connections between Christi
Monastic Bodies
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Caroline T. Schroeder
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-01 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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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.
The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt
Language: en
Pages: 456
Authors: Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom offers a new history of the field of Egyptian monastic archaeology. It is the first study in English to trace how scholars identified