Contact as catalyst: The case for Coptic influence in the development of Arabic negation [PDF]
, 2010 This article discusses similar developments in the expression of negation in the histories of Egyptian-Coptic and Arabic and explores the evidence for these respective developments being related by language contact. Both Coptic and Arabic have undergone
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St. Moses the Ethiopian or the black. Cult and representation in the middle ages [PDF]
Zograf, 2019 The paper presents extant texts narrating about St. Moses the Ethiopian or the Black written in Greek, Coptic, Ge’ez, Syrian, Arabic and Old Church Slavonic and reviews the cult of the saint connected to the Baramus Monastery in the Scetis ...
Starodubcev Tatjana
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PENGARUH BAHASA ARAB TERHADAP IDENTITAS SOSIO-KULTURALDAN KEAGAMAAN MASYARAKAT KOPTIK DI MESIR
CMES (Center of Middle Eastern Studies), 2018 In general, Arabic is the official language of the Arab states. However, at the beginning of its contact with non-Arab societies, this language—that is always associated as the language of Islam—was not easily accepted by non-Muslims.
Yoyo Yoyo
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A Look Back into Ancient Egyptian Linguistic Studies (c. 1995-2019)
Panta rei, 2020 This article provides a personal overview of the last 25-year linguistic research on ancient Egyptian, the language spoken and written in Egypt since the origin of the written Egyptian civilization (c.
Carlos Gracia Zamacona
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Possessive Constructions in Egyptian and Coptic. Distribution, definiteness, and the construct state phenomenon [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper, the distribution of Coptic possessive constructions is defined in terms of syntactic constraints: the construction involving the linking element N- requires the obligatory (and simple) definiteness of the possessed noun as well as the ...
Egedi, Barbara
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Towards a definition of an Egyptian Greek variety
Papers in Historical Phonology, 2016 In this paper I study the possibility of an Egyptian Greek variety that — on the phonological level — developed from the 2nd century CE onward, and which has so far not been defined as an independent language variety.
Sonja Dahlgren
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The Concept of Bridal Chamber in the Valentinian Inscriptions
Literatūra (Vilnius), 2020 This article investigates the Valentinian ritual, called “bridal chamber”, in the only surviving Valentinian funeral epitaphs, Flavia Sophe and NCE 156. These inscriptions stand out from the context of other Valentinian sources because they are extant in
Gražina Kelmelytė
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Dioscorus, Patriarch of Alexandria, in the "Chronicle" of John of Nikiu and Ethiopian historical compilations [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. ФилологияThis study is devoted to the personality of Dioscorus, the 25th Patriarch of Alexandria, who occupied the See of St. Mark in 444-451. He became famous for his speech at the Council of Chalcedon in support of the doctrine of Monophysitism.
Ekaterina Gusarova
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Translation problems of theological and philosophical concepts in the Gospel according to Philip
Literatūra (Vilnius), 2019 This article discusses the translation problems of theological and philosophical concepts in the apocryphal Gospel according to Philip. This text attributed to Valentinian Gnosticism originally was written in ancient Greek language, although now it is ...
Gražina Kelmelytė
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