BA, MA, PhD

Dr Agaiby received a Ph.D. from Macquarie University, Sydney Australia, and a Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen, Germany. Her areas of interest include Christianity in Late Antique, Early Egyptian Monasticism, Coptic Archaeology, and Christian-Arabic Studies. Her latest publications include: Lisa Agaiby and Tim Vivian (2021, Nov.) Door of the Wilderness: The Greek, Coptic, and Copto-Arabic Sayings of St. Antony of Egypt (Leiden: Brill); Lisa Agaiby, Mark N. Swanson, and Nelly Van Doorn-Harder eds. (2021). The Proceedings of St Athanasius College’s International Symposium of Coptic Studies: “Copts in Modernity” 13 to 16 July 2018 (Leiden: Brill); and Elizabeth (Lisa) Agaiby (2018) The Arabic Life of Antony attributed to Serapion of Thmuis. Cultural Memory Reinterpreted (Leiden: Brill). She is currently leading a project to digitise and catalogue the entire collection of manuscripts at the ancient Coptic Monastery of St Paul the Hermit at the Red Sea, Egypt. 

Books

Agaiby, Lisa and Tim Vivian (2021, Nov.) Door of the Wilderness: The Greek, Coptic, and Copto-Arabic Sayings of St. Antony of Egypt, Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity (23). (Leiden & Boston: Brill). ISBN: 978-90-04-47186-3.

Agaiby, Lisa, Mark N. Swanson, and Nelly Van Doorn-Harder eds. (2021). The Proceedings of St Athanasius College’s International Symposium of Coptic Studies: “Copts in Modernity” 13 to 16 July 2018, Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity (22). (Leiden & Boston: Brill). 472pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-44657-1.

Agaiby, Elizabeth (Lisa) (2018) The Arabic Life of Antony attributed to Serapion of Thmuis. Cultural Memory Reinterpreted, Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity (14). (Leiden & Boston: Brill). 279pp. ISBN 978-90-04-38327-2.

Selected peer-reviewed journal articles/book chapters

(2021) “Copto-Arabic Sayings Attributed to St Antony the Great.” In: Studia Patristica. Vol. CXXIV – Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019. Volume 21: Hagiographica; Ascetica; Martyria (124), ed. Markus Vincent (Leuven: Peeters), pp. 67-74. ISBN 9789042947764.

(2021) “The Cenotaph in the Cave Church of St. Paul the Hermit.” In: Copts in Modernity. Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity (22), eds. Lisa Agaiby, Mark N. Swanson, Nelly van Doorn Harder (Leiden & Boston: Brill), pp. 321-356. ISBN 978-90-04-44657-1.

(2020) “Synopsis of the Arabic Pseudo-Serapionic Life of Antony.” In: Christianity and Monasticism in Alexandria and the Egyptian Deserts, eds. Hany N. Takla and Gawdat Gabra (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press), pp. 1-11. ISBN 9774169611.

(2019) “Shenoute the Archimandrite in Manuscripts at the Red Sea Monasteries.” Coptica (Los Angeles: St Shenouda Society for Coptic Studies), pp. 1-16. ISSN 1541-163X.

(2018) “A Codicological Overview of MS St Paul Monastery (History) 53.” Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie Copte, 57 (Cairo: Société d’Archéologie Copte), pp. 11-31. ISSN 0005-948X.

(2018) “Manuscripts Containing the Life of Antony in Arabic.” Parole de l’Orient (Jounieh, Lebanon: Faculté Pontificale de Théologie de l’Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik), pp. 15-35. ISSN 0258-8331.