Coptic

ISBN: 9782503533803
Published by : Brepols
This volume contains annotated English translations of fifty selected legal documents originally written in the Coptic language, dating from the mid-sixth to the mid-eighth centuries. They include land transfers, sales, wills, property division... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789774163111
Published by : American Univ. in Cairo Press
The contributors to this volume examine various aspects of Coptic civilization in the Nag Hammadi and Esna region of Upper Egypt. Topics include new Coptic textual discoveries, and analysis of Coptic manuscripts, saints and hagiography, excavat... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783895007804
Published by : Reichert Verlag
Series: Sprachen und Kulturen des Christlichen Orients
Volume: 18
The Panegyric on the Coptic bishop Macarius (+ 451) of the city of Tkoou in Upper Egypt is the only complete Coptic text that reports on the Council of Chalcedon in 451 A.D. It is a mixture of hagiography, church history and theology. Beside a pro... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788392591924
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Volume: 13
This book contains the publication of the Greek and Coptic inscriptions that were brought to light during archaeological work on the site of Qasr Ibrim (Egyptian Nubia) carried out by the Egypt Exploration Society from 1963 onwards. .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407306087
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This study investigates identity and concepts of Egyptian-ness in the sharply contrasting worlds of New Kingdom and Coptic Egypt. Horbury analyses the effects of official belief systems on the lives and identities of ordinary Egyptians, using l... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788392591900
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Volume: 11
For the few past decades Ewa Wipszycka has been working on the history of monastic communities in Egypt in late Antiquity, addressing especially their institutional, social and cultural aspects. This book presents the results of her life-long r... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783895005848
Published by : Reichert Verlag
Series: Spätantike-Frühes Christentum-Byzanz
Volume: 15
The use of models and pattern sheets in Antiquity is still much discussed among scholars. While lost for other works of art, a considerable number of patterns painted on papyrus and used in textile workshops has been found in Egypt. The present ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199258628
Published by : Oxford University Press
This study aims to shed light on the ways that Egyptian Copts thought about, represented and worshipped Christ in the centuries from Late Antiquity to around 1300. A particular focus is the act of incarnation and its implication for humans and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789774161223
Published by : American Univ. in Cairo Press
This book, the result of a 2002 conference, looks at early Coptic monasticism in the Akhmim and Sohag regions of upper Egypt. Specifically they focus on the career and monastic vision of Shenoute the Archimandrite (348-466), probably the greate... .... Learn More