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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural Rights and Social Inclusion: Reflections on the Engagement of Refugee Communities in Egyptian Museums

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, Volume 69, Issue 1, Page 57-79, January 2026.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, Egypt has been a place of refuge for many individuals fleeing political upheaval, including Sudanese, Syrian, Yemeni, Iraqi, and Palestinian communities. The influx of Sudanese refugees since 2023 has further increased the country's refugee population.
Nevine Nizar Zakaria, Heba Alders
wiley   +1 more source

A note on two unpublished Coptic textiles from Belgrade [PDF]

open access: yesZograf, 2017
This text presents to the academic public two so-far unpublished pieces from the collection of Coptic textiles housed at the Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade.
Erdeljan Jelena
doaj   +1 more source

Rumi Numeral System Symbols: Additional characters proposed to Unicode [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This is a proposal to encode a set of Rumi numeral symbols in the international character encoding standard Unicode. This set of characters was published in Unicode Standard version 5.2 in October 2009.
Lazrek, Azzeddine
core  

Religious institutions and authoritarian states : Church-state relations in the Middle East [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The churches in the Middle East are generally perceived to be supportive of the authoritarian states in the region. The motivations for this strategy and its successes and limitations in the context of the authoritarian environment and the religious ...
McCallum, Fiona
core   +1 more source

Relative Chaoticity of Natural Languages

open access: yesComplexity, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
This paper presents a novel approach to analyzing and grouping natural languages based on the degree of their chaoticity. It clusters 52 languages from 18 language families, according to the value of the entropy–complexity pair, to reveal the chaotic properties of semantic trajectories.
Assel S. Yerbolova   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Semiotic analysis of contemporary Coptic Orthodox church architecture; A case study of Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist church in Bab El Louk, Cairo, Egypt

open access: yesAin Shams Engineering Journal, 2018
Within the quest of better understanding of architecture, interpretation of signs and symbols play an important role. An article was presented earlier to analyze an ancient Coptic Orthodox church, within the course of an ongoing PhD, studying the visual ...
Marianne Nabil Guirguis   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Theoretical issues in the interpretation of Cappadocian, a not-so-dead Greek contact language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Cappadocian is a mixed Greek-Turkish dialect continuum spoken in the Turkish Central Anatolia Region until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s. Only a few Cappadocian dialects are still spoken in present-day Greece.
Janse, Mark
core   +1 more source

The Making of the Vindolanda Wooden Writing Tablets: A Noninvasive Multianalytical Protocol for the Characterisation of Black Roman Inks

open access: yesJournal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Within the ‘Making History’ project, the British Museum investigated the materiality of the Vindolanda ink writing tablets for the first time, with a particular focus on the possible differentiation of the ink sources employed. Thanks to the application of complementary scientific techniques, it was possible to develop an analytical protocol for the ...
Giovanna Vasco   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quand Le Caire se révèle copte…

open access: yesRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2005
The scope of the present paper is to define the nature of the relation of the Coptic Orthodox community to the space in the city of Cairo, in an attempt to find out in what manner it is influenced by the Coptic Revival Movement (end 19th – 20th c.) and ...
Anne-Sophie Vivier
doaj   +1 more source

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