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2020
This chapter highlights Coptic life-writing; identifying its various strands and forms can open new avenues for the analysis of Coptic literature. On the whole, the rise of the biographic that has been noted more generally for Late Antiquity is greatly felt in Coptic texts, perhaps even more strongly than in other languages as a proportion of the ...
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This chapter highlights Coptic life-writing; identifying its various strands and forms can open new avenues for the analysis of Coptic literature. On the whole, the rise of the biographic that has been noted more generally for Late Antiquity is greatly felt in Coptic texts, perhaps even more strongly than in other languages as a proportion of the ...
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Histoire sociale / Social History, 2020
Scholarship on Coptic Orthodox Christians, built on textual sources left behind by elites and institutions, has focused largely on the unwavering persistence of an insular faith community.
Michael Akladios
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Scholarship on Coptic Orthodox Christians, built on textual sources left behind by elites and institutions, has focused largely on the unwavering persistence of an insular faith community.
Michael Akladios
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, 2020
Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt. By the time of the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641, Coptic had almost achieved official status, but only after an ...
J. Fournet
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Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt. By the time of the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641, Coptic had almost achieved official status, but only after an ...
J. Fournet
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2019
Going beyond an inventory of “Old Testament apocrypha” transmitted in Coptic, this chapter focuses on the conceptual problems inherent in the study of Coptic literature, and of Coptic apocrypha in particular. First, the complicated linguistic situation of late antique and early medieval Egypt is sketched, which as far as Coptic sources are concerned ...
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Going beyond an inventory of “Old Testament apocrypha” transmitted in Coptic, this chapter focuses on the conceptual problems inherent in the study of Coptic literature, and of Coptic apocrypha in particular. First, the complicated linguistic situation of late antique and early medieval Egypt is sketched, which as far as Coptic sources are concerned ...
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The Coptic diaspora and the status of the Coptic minority in Egypt
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2016ABSTRACTThis paper examines the political activity of the Coptic diaspora in the United States in support of the Coptic minority in Egypt. Analysing its strategy reveals that for years it has focused on lobbying the United States and international bodies, in order to raise international awareness of the Coptic minority status.
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2016
Abstract Coptic literature was born together with the Coptic language in Roman Egypt, around the third century, inside the Christian Church. It developed following the exigencies of the Church, together with a parallel literature in Greek: after biblical translations, and Gnosticizing (and Manichaean) treatises, homilies, canons ...
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Abstract Coptic literature was born together with the Coptic language in Roman Egypt, around the third century, inside the Christian Church. It developed following the exigencies of the Church, together with a parallel literature in Greek: after biblical translations, and Gnosticizing (and Manichaean) treatises, homilies, canons ...
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“We love martyrdom, but we also love life”: Coptic cultural trauma between martyrdom and rights
American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 2022Mira Philips
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The Emergence of the Modern Coptic Papacy
, 2022M. Guirguis, Nelly van Doorn‐Harder
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Indigeneity and innovation of early Islamic glaze technology: the case of the Coptic Glazed Ware
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2020C. Ting, I. Taxel
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