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Revision of the Coptic block under ballot for the BMP of the UCS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This is a proposal to add characters for Coptic to the international character encoding standard Unicode. The characters were published in Unicode Standard version 4.1 in March 2005.
Emmel, Stephen, Everson, Michael
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remains of Gnomic Anthologies and Pagan Wisdom Literature in the Coptic Tradition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
It is well known that a complete and satisfying “history of Coptic literature” is still a desideratum. Among the other causes contributing to the difficulty of such an enterprise are the fragmentary status of the codices which preserve the texts and the ...
Buzi, Paola
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Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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A note on two unpublished Coptic textiles from Belgrade [PDF]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This text presents to the academic public two so-far unpublished pieces from the collection of Coptic textiles housed at the Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade.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

Dealing with the Stratigraphy of Coptic Codices: the Cases of MSS Pierpont Morgan Library M578 and Coptic Museum, inv. 13446 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper proposes a codicological analysis of two Coptic manuscripts, illustrating how the accurate protocol of codicological description developed within the ERC Advanced Grant project ‘PAThs’, combined with the concepts and the
Carlig, Nathan
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Regional perspectives: Substance use related problems in Ethiopia

open access: yesAddiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Ethiopia, with a population exceeding 130 million, presents a complex landscape for understanding substance use disorders. The country's diverse cultural heritage, varying regional practices, and evolving socioeconomic conditions create unique factors of substance use that differ markedly from global trends.
Tesfa M. Yimer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

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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