Product Description: TAVO B volumes 1-6 are companions to two TAVO maps: B VI 15 (Egypt. Christianity up to the Arab Conquest [up to the 7th century]) and B VIII 5 (Egypt: Christianity in the Medieval and Modern Periods).The maps represent a collection of Christian sites in Egypt during Arab times, not including Alexandria, Cairo, the Apa-Mena monastery (Deir Abu Mina), the Sketis (Wadi Natrun) and the Sinai region...read more

Product Description: This compilation lists, according to literary sources, the most important Egyptian sites with Christian communities, churches, cloisters and dioceses in Arab times. The work shows that the boom years of Egyptian Christianity were during Byzantine times but also, that there was active Christian life in Egypt during the centuries of Muslim reign...read more

Product Description: TAVO B volumes 1-6 are companions to two TAVO maps: B VI 15 (Egypt. Christianity up to the Arab Conquest [up to the 7th century]) and B VIII 5 (Egypt: Christianity in the Medieval and Modern Periods).The maps represent a collection of Christian sites in Egypt during Arab times, not including Alexandria, Cairo, the Apa-Mena monastery (Deir Abu Mina), the Sketis (Wadi Natrun) and the Sinai region...read more

Product Description: This compilation lists, according to literary sources, the most important Egyptian sites with Christian communities, churches, cloisters and dioceses in Arab times. The work shows that the boom years of Egyptian Christianity were during Byzantine times but also, that there was active Christian life in Egypt during the centuries of Muslim reign...read more

Product Description: Eusebius of Caesarea’s gazetteer of biblical place-names is the basic handbook for the historical geography of the Holy Land on both banks of the Jordan. In its Latin version, it had a strong influence on the Occidental world. The Syriac version had a similar influence on the Orient and is presented here for the first time in an interlinear form: Greek and Syriac, together with a German and an English translation...read more

Product Description: Collection of individual volumes 1-6, including index volume. Publishes information on Christian sites in Arab Egypt, with descriptions, history and literature. German text.