Nitria and Scetis: H. G. Evelyn White,The Monasteries of the Wadi ‘N Natrun
The valuable Syriac documents which came from the Monastery of the Virgin in the Wadi el-Natrun, are still labeled sometimes as “Nitrian.” Similarly, the dialect of the Coptic manuscripts from St....
View ArticleThe Identification of Deir el-Bachit Monastery (Western Thebes)
The German archaeological mission in Egypt announces here the identification of Deir el-Bachit monastic site. The name of this place appears on some Theban ostraka as “the monastery of Apa Paul, on the...
View ArticleP. Van Cauwenbergh – Etude sur les moines d’Egypte
I just started to scan some books which seem to be out of copyright but are not available yet in electronic format. Today’s book: P. van Cauwenbergh, Etude sur les moines d’Egypte depuis le Concile de...
View ArticleGuest Post: Diliana Atanassova on the Coptic Liturgical Typika from the White...
Diliana Atanassova is member of the Copus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari project (Hamburg/Rome) and research fellow at the Department of Biblical Studies and Ecclesiastical History, Faculty of...
View ArticleTwo Joint Fragments from the Proverbs of Solomon in Coptic and the Extinction...
I have presented here several times some interesting cases of torn leaves from the library of the Monastery of Apa Shenoute (or the White Monastery), which can be reconstructed out of two or more...
View ArticleA New Fragment from the Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The University of...
Dr. Janet Timbie, from the Catholic University of America, informed me some time ago that Robert A. Kraft has been working on a catalogue of the manuscripts and papyri held in the University of...
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