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Monasticism in Egypt : images and words of the Desert Fathers
- Title
- Monasticism in Egypt : images and words of the Desert Fathers / [photographs by] Michael W. McClellan ; with a foreword by H.H. Pope Shenouda III and an afterword by Otto F.A. Meinardus.
- Author
- McClellan, Michael W.
- Publication
- Cairo, Egypt : American University in Cairo Press, 1998.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Meinardus, Otto F. A., 1925-2005.
- Description
- 101 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Christian monasticism began in Egypt over 1600 years ago, in the barren desert between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea, from where it spread far and wide through various Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant traditions. But in the deserts of Egypt, sixteen centuries after the Desert Fathers, monasticism still thrives, and it is to these isolated monasteries in one of the world's most inhospitable environments that photographer Michael McClellan here turns his lens. Through his peaceful and timeless black-and-white images, McClellan reveals the quiet, spiritual world of today's desert fathers in the Coptic monasteries of the Red Sea Mountains, Wadi al-Natrun, and Upper Egypt, and in the Greek Orthodox monastery of Saint Catherine at the foot of Mount Sinai. Illuminating the photographs are extracts from the Paradise of the Fathers, tales of the Desert Fathers collected by Saint Palladius."--Jacket
- Alternative Title
- Paradise of the fathers.
- Subject
- Coptic monasticism and religious orders > Pictorial works
- Desert Fathers > Egypt
- Monasticism and religious orders > Egypt > Pictorial works
- Monasteries > Egypt > Pictorial works
- 11.53 Eastern Churches
- Coptic monasticism and religious orders
- Desert Fathers
- Monasteries
- Monasticism and religious orders
- Mönchtum
- Koptische Kirche
- Kloosterleven
- Koptische Kerk
- Sinaï-klooster
- Egypt
- Ägypten
- Genre/Form
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works
- Pictorial works
- Illustrated works.
- Ouvrages illustrés.
- Note
- Consists of photographs paired with quotes from The Paradise of the fathers, translated by E.A. Wallis Budge, pbd. in 1907.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 101).
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Shenouda III -- Introduction (starting p. 1) -- Images and Words of the Desert Fathers (starting p. 7) -- Afterword (starting p. 91) / Otto F.A. Meinardus -- Text Sources (starting p. 101)
- ISBN
- 977424463X
- 9789774244636
- LCCN
- 2002360483
- OCLC
- ocm40961655
- 40961655
- SCSB-861357
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library