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Coptic Studies from Egypt to Los Angeles
Essays in Honor of Hany N. Takla
Series: - Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, Volume: 40
Coptic Studies from Egypt to Los Angeles is a Festschrift in honor of Hany N. Takla and presents a collection of essaysâmany of which contain unpublished archival materialâshowcasing historical and liturgical aspects pertaining to Coptic Christianity. The volume brings together the work of senior and emerging scholars and covers six themes that mirror the broad range of multifaceted fields characterizing Taklaâs scholarly interests. Simultaneously, the themes also register close alignment with primary centers of ongoing research, including Coptic-Arabic Manuscripts, Coptic Art and History, Coptic Bible, Coptic Culture, Coptic Liturgy and Shenoute and Monasticism.
Lisa Agaiby is Academic Dean and Senior Lecturer in Coptic Studies at St. Athanasius College, University of Divinity Australia. Her most recent publication is the edited volume First in the Desert: St. Paul the Hermit in Text and Tradition (Brill, 2024).
Lillian I. Larsen is Crawford Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Redlands in Southern California. Her ongoing exploration of education in emergent Christian monasticism is captured in numerous publications, including a co-edited volume Monastic Education in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 2018).
Arsenius Mikhail is is Professor of Liturgical Studies at St. Athanasius & St. Cyril Theological School and lead researcher of the Bohairic Euchologia Project at the University of Regensburg. He has published monographs and articles on Coptic Liturgy including Analecta Hymnica Coptica (Peeters, 2023).
Tamara L. Siuda, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University in California, is an Egyptologist and Coptologist working on the transmission and preservation of Coptic culture through martyrological narratives. She is an Associate Managing Editor of the Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia.
Lillian I. Larsen is Crawford Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Redlands in Southern California. Her ongoing exploration of education in emergent Christian monasticism is captured in numerous publications, including a co-edited volume Monastic Education in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 2018).
Arsenius Mikhail is is Professor of Liturgical Studies at St. Athanasius & St. Cyril Theological School and lead researcher of the Bohairic Euchologia Project at the University of Regensburg. He has published monographs and articles on Coptic Liturgy including Analecta Hymnica Coptica (Peeters, 2023).
Tamara L. Siuda, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University in California, is an Egyptologist and Coptologist working on the transmission and preservation of Coptic culture through martyrological narratives. She is an Associate Managing Editor of the Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia.
Foreword
List of Figures and Tables
Tabula gratulatoria
Publications of Hany N. Takla
Notes on Transliteration and Common Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors and Editors
Introduction
âLisa Agaiby, Lillian I. Larsen, Arsenius Mikhail and Tamara L. Siuda
PART 1 Coptic-Arabic Manuscripts
1 Two Coptic Manuscripts for the Collection
âA Pair of New Additions to the St. Shenouda Center Library in Los Angeles
âStephen J. Davis
2 Macarius or Simeon?
âAn Unpublished Witness of the Macarian Corpus in Bohairic Coptic
âWadid el Macari
3 Newly Discovered Twelfth-Century Arabic Fragments in Coptic Script from the Monastery of St. Macarius
âEvidence of an Egyptian Proto-BustÄn al-RuhbÄn
âMarkos el Makari
4 âI Wrote It with My Hand and the Handwriting Bears Witness to Meâ
âScribal Verses in Copto-Arabic Manuscripts
âMark N. Swanson
PART 2 Coptic Art and History
5 Expressing Sanctity
âThe Squared Halo and Some Little-Considered Egyptian Christian Icons
âElizabeth S. Bolman
6 A Diploma of Nomination of a Steward to the Church of the Virgin Mary, al-Ê¿Adawiyya in 1638
âRamez Boutros
7 The Patriarchal Career of John XVIII of Alexandria (1769â1796 CE)
âAn Early Modern, Non-Chalcedonian Voice
âMary Ghattas
8 Sacred Space, Sacred Images
âThe Paintings of Deir Al-Surian between the Eighth and Tenth Centuries
âKarel C. Innemée
9 A Heavenly Veil
âThe Ciborium in Paris MS Copte 13 and Institut-Catholique MS Copte-Arabe 1
âMaggie Atef Tawadros
10 What Happened to the Altar?
âThe Annunciation to Zacharias in Dayr Abu Hinnis
âGertrud J. M. van Loon
PART 3 Coptic Bible
11 A Few More Words on the Fayyumic Version of Markâs Gospel
âAnne Boudâhors
12 The Book of Susanna as a âSpace Fillerâ in Sahidic Bible Manuscripts
âFrank Feder
13 A Sahidic Deuteronomy Fragment from Qasr Ibrim
âJoost L. Hagen and Jacques van der Vliet
14 The Bible as School Text
âLillian I. Larsen with Joseph Fahim
PART 4 Coptic Culture
15 Imprinted on the Skin
âCoptic Cross Tattoos in Medieval Egypt
âHeather A. Badamo
16 Piecing Together a Monastic Kitchen in Late Antique Egypt
âDarlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
17 Coptic Civilization in The Diaspora
âAdvancements in Music, Art, Architecture, and Literature
âTamara L. Siuda, Patricia Eshagh, and Saad Michael Saad
PART 5 Coptic Liturgy
18 Tensions of Translation
âA Contribution to the Scribal Activity of Gabriel III in a Holy Week Lectionary from the Monastery of the Syrians
âArsenius Mikhail
19 The Tenth-Century Origins of the Fast of the Dormition in the East
âand Its Introduction and Acceptance among the Copts
âMaged S. A. Mikhail
20 Theodosius I in the Coptic Liturgy
âYouhanna Nessim Youssef
PART 6 Shenoute and Monasticism
21 Visionary Experiences, Textual Expertise, and Discernment of Spirits
âin the Career of Shenoute
âDavid Brakke
22 Mary and Friends Among the Desert Fathers
âGeâez Reception of the âAbawa GadÄm
âRobert A. Kitchen
23 Schenute von Atripe
âAkephales Werk A3*
âSamuel Moawad
24 Revisiting a Double-Edged Sword in Shenoutean Studies
âCaroline T. Schroeder
25 Guiding the Womenâs Community in the White Monastery Federation
âThen Am I Not Obliged by Shenoute of Atripe
âJanet Timbie
26 Neilos of Ancyra
âConcerning the Eight Evil Thoughts
âTim Vivian
Scripture Index
Index of Manuscripts
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects
List of Figures and Tables
Tabula gratulatoria
Publications of Hany N. Takla
Notes on Transliteration and Common Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors and Editors
Introduction
âLisa Agaiby, Lillian I. Larsen, Arsenius Mikhail and Tamara L. Siuda
PART 1 Coptic-Arabic Manuscripts
1 Two Coptic Manuscripts for the Collection
âA Pair of New Additions to the St. Shenouda Center Library in Los Angeles
âStephen J. Davis
2 Macarius or Simeon?
âAn Unpublished Witness of the Macarian Corpus in Bohairic Coptic
âWadid el Macari
3 Newly Discovered Twelfth-Century Arabic Fragments in Coptic Script from the Monastery of St. Macarius
âEvidence of an Egyptian Proto-BustÄn al-RuhbÄn
âMarkos el Makari
4 âI Wrote It with My Hand and the Handwriting Bears Witness to Meâ
âScribal Verses in Copto-Arabic Manuscripts
âMark N. Swanson
PART 2 Coptic Art and History
5 Expressing Sanctity
âThe Squared Halo and Some Little-Considered Egyptian Christian Icons
âElizabeth S. Bolman
6 A Diploma of Nomination of a Steward to the Church of the Virgin Mary, al-Ê¿Adawiyya in 1638
âRamez Boutros
7 The Patriarchal Career of John XVIII of Alexandria (1769â1796 CE)
âAn Early Modern, Non-Chalcedonian Voice
âMary Ghattas
8 Sacred Space, Sacred Images
âThe Paintings of Deir Al-Surian between the Eighth and Tenth Centuries
âKarel C. Innemée
9 A Heavenly Veil
âThe Ciborium in Paris MS Copte 13 and Institut-Catholique MS Copte-Arabe 1
âMaggie Atef Tawadros
10 What Happened to the Altar?
âThe Annunciation to Zacharias in Dayr Abu Hinnis
âGertrud J. M. van Loon
PART 3 Coptic Bible
11 A Few More Words on the Fayyumic Version of Markâs Gospel
âAnne Boudâhors
12 The Book of Susanna as a âSpace Fillerâ in Sahidic Bible Manuscripts
âFrank Feder
13 A Sahidic Deuteronomy Fragment from Qasr Ibrim
âJoost L. Hagen and Jacques van der Vliet
14 The Bible as School Text
âLillian I. Larsen with Joseph Fahim
PART 4 Coptic Culture
15 Imprinted on the Skin
âCoptic Cross Tattoos in Medieval Egypt
âHeather A. Badamo
16 Piecing Together a Monastic Kitchen in Late Antique Egypt
âDarlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
17 Coptic Civilization in The Diaspora
âAdvancements in Music, Art, Architecture, and Literature
âTamara L. Siuda, Patricia Eshagh, and Saad Michael Saad
PART 5 Coptic Liturgy
18 Tensions of Translation
âA Contribution to the Scribal Activity of Gabriel III in a Holy Week Lectionary from the Monastery of the Syrians
âArsenius Mikhail
19 The Tenth-Century Origins of the Fast of the Dormition in the East
âand Its Introduction and Acceptance among the Copts
âMaged S. A. Mikhail
20 Theodosius I in the Coptic Liturgy
âYouhanna Nessim Youssef
PART 6 Shenoute and Monasticism
21 Visionary Experiences, Textual Expertise, and Discernment of Spirits
âin the Career of Shenoute
âDavid Brakke
22 Mary and Friends Among the Desert Fathers
âGeâez Reception of the âAbawa GadÄm
âRobert A. Kitchen
23 Schenute von Atripe
âAkephales Werk A3*
âSamuel Moawad
24 Revisiting a Double-Edged Sword in Shenoutean Studies
âCaroline T. Schroeder
25 Guiding the Womenâs Community in the White Monastery Federation
âThen Am I Not Obliged by Shenoute of Atripe
âJanet Timbie
26 Neilos of Ancyra
âConcerning the Eight Evil Thoughts
âTim Vivian
Scripture Index
Index of Manuscripts
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects
The interdisciplinary scope of this publication makes it appealing to scholars, students and a general audience interested in Middle Eastern Christianity, Coptic Studies, anthropology, material culture and history.