The Miracle of Saint Mina – Gis Miinan Nokkor
- Edited by El-Shafie El-Guzuuli, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
Published on January 5, 2012 by punctum books
- Pages
- 162 pages
- Languages
- English, NUB
- Dimensions
- 5.25⤫8 in.
- ISBN (Paperback)
- ISBN: 978-90-817091-3-2 (Paperback)
- BISAC subject codes
- BISAC: FIC111020
- Thema subject codes
- THEMA: 1QBHN, 3KL, FYT
The Miracle of Saint Mina is one of the core texts in the small corpus of texts written in Old Nubian, a Nilo-Saharan language spoken between the third and fourth cataract of the Nile river until about the fifteenth century, and written in an adaptation of the Coptic script. It is one of the oldest written indigenous African languages. The Miracle of Saint Mina, most probably written around 1000 A.D., is a classical miracle story featuring one of the most well-known Egyptian saints. This publication features a translation of the text into one of the remaining modern Nubian languages, Dongolawi-Andaandi, by El-Shafie El-Guzuuli, thus establishing for the first time a link between the Old Nubian literary heritage and the contemporary colloquial language. The Old Nubian is also accompanied by a revised translation to English and a grammatical analysis.
Biographies
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei(opens in new tab) received a PhD in Media & Communications from the European Graduate School and another PhD in Modern Thought from the University of Aberdeen. He is a philologist and the co-director of punctum books(opens in new tab). He is also a specialist in Old Nubian and co-editor-in-chief of Dotawo(opens in new tab). Monographs include A Reference Grammar of Old Nubian(opens in new tab) (Peeters, 2021) and Cross-Examinations(opens in new tab) (MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2015). His three-volume work Lapidari(opens in new tab) (punctum, 2015)** provides the first complete overview of socialist monumentality in Albania. As a translator, Van Gerven Oei works mostly with anonymous Makuritan Nubian scribes and contemporary authors such as Jean Daive, Hervé Guibert, Werner Hamacher, Dick Raaijmakers, Avital Ronell, and Nachoem M. Wijnberg. His scholarly work has appeared in Afterall, Glossa, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, postmedieval, and Theory & Event, among other venues.
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Genres
- Fabulations
- Languages+Translations
Keywords
- Christianity
- Dongolawi
- miracle story
- Old Nubian