{"id":404,"date":"2020-01-22T11:23:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T17:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/?p=404"},"modified":"2020-01-22T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T17:23:21","slug":"the-twenty-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/2020\/01\/22\/the-twenty-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twenty-One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A choreographed propaganda video was released in 2015 which showed ISIS militants behead twenty-one orange-clad Chrisitan men on a Libyan beach. Martin Mosebach travelled to the Egyptian village of El-Aour to meet their families and better understand the faith and culture that shaped such conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended by an ACU Faculty member, <em>The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs\u00a0<\/em>is written by Martin Mosebach who offers a travelogue of his encounters with the families of &#8220;The Twenty-One,&#8221; and with a foreign culture and an ancient church that has preserved the faith and liturgy of early Christianity &#8211; the &#8220;church of the martyrs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-405\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2020\/01\/the-21-368x490.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2020\/01\/the-21-368x490.jpg 368w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2020\/01\/the-21-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2020\/01\/the-21-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2020\/01\/the-21-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2020\/01\/the-21-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2020\/01\/the-21-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2020\/01\/the-21-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a religious minority in Muslim Egypt, the Copts find themselves caught in a clash of civilization. This also serves as an account of the spiritual lives of an Arab country stretched between extremism and pluralism.<\/p>\n<p>In twenty-one symbolic chapters (one chapter for each man beheaded), we are lead through the lives of these men by the families they left behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A choreographed propaganda video was released in 2015 which showed ISIS militants behead twenty-one orange-clad Chrisitan men on a Libyan beach. Martin Mosebach travelled to the Egyptian village of El-Aour to meet their families and better understand the faith and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/2020\/01\/22\/the-twenty-one\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1466],"tags":[203138,203136,203135,203139,203137],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-studies","tag-coptic-christians","tag-copts","tag-egypt","tag-religious-studies","tag-social-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}