Dr Heike Behlmer
M.A. Göttingen , PhD Göttingen , D.Phil. (Habilitation) Göttingen
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- The edition of a collection of works on the monastic life by the abbot Shenoute as part of an international project for a complete new edition of Shenoute's Works (General Editor: Stephen Emmel, University of Münster, Germany)
- The edition of documentary Coptic texts on ostraca (and papyrus) dating to the 6th to 8th centuries CE from the Theban region in Upper Egypt excavated by archaeological expeditions from various European universities
- Communication Networks in Late Byzantine and Early Islamic monastic communities: a collaborative project with Dr Malcolm Choat (Macquarie University), analysing the letters on ostraca sent between monasteries in the Theban region, especially the monastery of Epiphanius, monastery of Severus (Sheikh Abd el-Qurna) and the Deir el-Bakhit and satellite monastic cells in tombs in the Dra' Abu el-Naga
- Studies on the development of Coptic Studies in the 19th century on the basis of archival material in the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts in Göttingen University Library
- Studies on women and gender in Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Islamic Egypt on the basis of the Coptic sources
Department of Ancient History:
http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/
Dr Heike Behlmer studied Egyptology, Coptic Studies and the Ancient Near East at Göttingen University. Her dissertation, published in 1996, edited, translated and analysed a sermon by the abbot Shenoute, the foremost writer in Coptic, from a papyrus manuscript preserved in the Egyptian Museum, Turin, Italy. From 1995 to 2004 she was Assistant Professor of Egyptology and Coptic Studies at Göttingen University, in 2003/2004 Visiting Professor of Coptic Studies at Munich University. She joined Macquarie University in late 2004 to develop the new online M.A. program in Coptic Studies . The program teaches the history, religion and culture of Egypt in the First Millennium CE as well as the Coptic language, the last stage of the language of Pharaonic Egypt, which is still in use today as a liturgical language in the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Her fields of research are Egyptian Monasticism, Coptic Literature, Gender Studies and the History of Scholarship in Egyptology and Coptic Studies in the 19th century. Among her current and recently completed research projects are:
Selected Publications
Books: Authored
Schenute von Atripe: De iudicio (Torino, Museo Egizio, Cat. 63000, Cod.
IV) . Catalogo del Museo Egizio di Torino, Serie Prima - Monumenti e
Testi, vol. VIII, Torino 1996.
(with Anthony Alcock), A Piece of Shenoutiana from the Department of Egyptian
Antiquities (EA 71005) . British Museum Occasional Paper 119, London 1996.
Heilige Schriften als Waffe der Rhetorik. Autoritative Texte und ihre literarische
Verarbeitung im Werk des ägyptischen Klostervorstehers Besa (2007 forthcoming)
Books: Edited
(with G. Moers, K. Demuß, K. Widmaier), jn.t dr.w - Festschrift für Friedrich Junge , Göttingen 2006....Quaerentes Scientiam. Festgabe für Wolfhart Westendorf zu seinem 70. Geburtstag , Göttingen 1994.
Articles
"Do not believe every word like the fool... Rhetorical Strategies in Shenoute,
Canon 6", in: Gawdat Gabra and Hany N. Takla (eds.), Acts of the Sohag Symposium,
1-5 February 2006 , American University in Cairo Press 2007, forthcoming.
"Patriotische Heilige in Ägypten", in: Dieter R. Bauer, Klaus Herbers and
Gabriella Signori (eds.), Acts of the Congress Patriotische Heilige. Beiträge
zur Konstruktion religiöser und praktischer Identitäten in der Vormoderne
.Wissenschaftliche Studientagung der Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart
mit dem Arbeitskreis für Hagiographische Fragen, Weingarten 25.-28.03.2004,
Stuttgart 2007, forthcoming.
"Women and the Holy in Coptic Hagiography", in: Nathalie Bosson and Anne Boud'hors
(eds.), Acts of the 8th International Congress of Coptic Studies 27.06.-03.07.2004
, Paris 2007, forthcoming.
"Coptic Use of Pharaonic Sacred Space in Western Thebes", in: Peter F. Dorman
and Betsy M. Bryan (eds.), Sacred Space and Sacred Function in Ancient Thebes
. Occasional Proceedings of the Theban Workshop. Studies in Ancient Oriental
Civilization 61, Chicago 2007, 163-175.
"Adolf Erman und Paul de Lagarde", in: Bernd U. Schipper (ed.), Ägyptologie
als Wissenschaft: Adolf Erman (1854-1937) in seiner Zeit , Berlin 2006, 276-292.
"Paul de Lagarde und die 'Aegyptische Alterthumskunde und Koptische Sprache'
in Göttingen, in: G. Moers, H. Behlmer, K. Demuß, K. Widmaier (eds.),
jn.t dr.w - Festschrift für Friedrich Junge , Göttingen 2006, 89-107.
"Paul de Lagarde and the Coptic New Testament: A Short Note on Archival Material
in the Lagarde Papers", in. W. Kappeler (ed.), Essays in Honour of Frederik
Wisse. Scholar, Churchman, Mentor , ARC: The Journal of the Faculty of Religious
Studies 33 (2005), 23-31.
"The Recovery of the Coptic Sources for the Study of Gender in Late Antiquity",
Orientalia 73 (2004), 255-269.
"Von Gattinnen, Müttern und Wilden Weibern - Figurationen des Weiblichen
in koptischen Heiligen- und Märtyrerlegenden", in: Günter Burkard,
Alfred Grimm, Sylvia Schoske und Alexandra Verbovsek unter Mitarbeit von Barbara
Magen (eds.), Kon-Texte. Akten des Symposions "Spurensuche - Altägypten
im Spiegel seiner Texte". München 2.-4. Mai 2003 , ÄAT 60, Wiesbaden
2004, 103-113.
"Streiflichter auf die christliche Besiedlung Thebens - Koptische Ostraka aus
dem Grab des Senneferi (TT 99)", Hallesche Beiträge zur Orientwissenschaft
36 (2003), 11 -27.
"Ein neo-koptischer Brief Adolf Ermans an Paul de Lagarde - Zeugnis für
eine wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Wende in der Erforschung des Koptischen",
Lingua Aegyptia 11 (2003), 1-12.
"... As safe as the British Museum - Paul de Lagarde and his borrowing of manuscripts
from the collection of Robert Curzon", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 89 (2003),
231-238.
"Schenute, Besa und Lagarde - ein unbekanntes Kapitel der Forschungsgeschichte",
Journal of Coptic Studies 5 (2003), 55-66.
"Heinrich Friedrich Karl Brugsch (1827-1894), Ägyptologe. Rede anläßlich
der Enthüllung einer Gedenktafel am 26.09.2003, Untere Masch 16", Göttinger
Jahrbuch 51 (2003), 165-169.
"Alt werden unter Pharaonen zwischen Ideal und Realität", Mitteilungen der
Grazer Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 11 (2002/2003), 24-53.
"The City as Metaphor in the Works of Two Panopolitans: Shenoute and Besa", in:
A. Egberts, B.P. Muhs, J. van der Vliet (eds.), Perspectives
on Panopolis. An Egyptian Town from Alexander the Great to the Arab Conquest.
Acts from an International Symposium Held in Leiden on 16, 17 an 18 December
1998 . Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 31, Leiden-Boston-Köln 2002,
13-27.
"Weibliche Körper im Mönchsgewand. Formen von Androgynie in der christlich-ägyptischen
Literatur", in: Carmen Franz and Gudrun Schwibbe (eds.), Geschlecht weiblich:
Körpererfahrungen - Körperkonzepte , Berlin 2001, 12-34.
"Eine Horsiese-Reminiszenz bei Schenute", Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie
Copte 39 (2000), 49-55 .
"Koptische Quellen zu (männlicher) Homosexualität", Studien zur Altägyptischen
Kultur 28 (2000), 27-53.
"The Future of the Göttinger Miszellen", Internet publication: http://www.aegyptologie.uni-goettingen.de/en/GM/gmfuture.htm (12.05.2000).
"Das Alter im christlichen Ägypten", Hallesche Beiträge zur Orientwissenschaft
26 (1998), 5-25.
"Visitors to Shenoute's Monastery", in: David Frankfurter (ed.), Pilgrimage and
Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt . Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 134,
Leiden 1998, 353-383.
"Il sermone scenutiano torinese sulla necessità della morte e sul giudizio
finale", in: Akten des XXI. Internationalen Papyrologenkongresses, Berlin 13.
- 19. 8. 1995 . Archiv für Papyrusforschung Beiheft 3, Stuttgart und Leipzig
1997, 80-87.
"Ancient Egyptian Survivals in Coptic Literature: an Overview", in: Antonio Loprieno
(ed.), Ancient Egyptian Literature: History and Forms , Leiden 1996, 567-590.
Teaching Websites
AHPG855: Introduction to Coptic Art and Archaeology
http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/AHPG855/
AHPG856: Egypt in the First Millennium CE
http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/AHPG856/
AHPG857: Monasticism in Egypt
http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/AHPG857/
AHPG896: Coptic I - Sahidic
http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/AHPG896/
AHPG897: Coptic II - Sahidic
http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/AHPG897/
AHPG898: Coptic Dialects
http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/AHPG898/
AHPG899: Advanced Coptic
http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/AHPG899/
Coptic Studies at Macquarie:
http://www.coptic.mq.edu.au/
Ancient History Documentary Research Centre:
http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/doccentre/ahdrc.html
Division of Humanities:
http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/
Macquarie University:
http://www.mq.edu.au/