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"I made you bear a son, and you shall call his name Mena!" The Saint, the Egg, and Medieval Nubia

Vox Patrum
This article examines the Old Nubian Miracle of St Menas, preserved in the British Library Ms. Or. 6805, as a unique testimony to Christian traditions in medieval Nubia.
Agata Deptuła
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The rise of Coptic : Egyptian versus Greek in late antiquity /

, 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 ...
Fournet, Jean-Luc(viaf)42020225
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The Increasing Breadth and Depth of African Christian Theology [reviewing Bongmba, Elias Kifon, ed. The Routledge Handbook of African Theology]

African Christian Theology
The spread of Christianity in Africa is linked with the presence of Western missionaries and colonialism. However, this connection does not extend to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) and the Egyptian Coptic Church, as both of these churches
Nebeyou A. TEREFE
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Coptic Culture in the Byzantine World: Nationalism and Religious Independence

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2001
The emergence of a distinctive Christian culture in late antique Egypt, increasingly turned in on itself, was facilitated by the development of the written Coptic language, the triumph of Monophysism, and perhaps most the limited access of Egyptians to ...
Glanville Downey
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Patience, Paratext, and the Heteronomy of Critique: An Introduction to Reading Politics of Piety at 20 Years

Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 567-570, September 2025.
Basit Kareem Iqbal
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Mani and the Angel Twin, Apostle of Yazdan and Crown Prince of Jesus Christ: A Comparative Study of Sources and Revisions of Some Previous Viewpoints [PDF]

Comparative Theology
The present philological-textual study, after evaluating and comparing various Syriac, Middle Persian, Parthian, Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Chinese sources, tries to show with what concepts and under what epithets Mani identified himself with his twin and
Mohammad Shokri Foumeshi
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Valikuid ja võimalusi: ülevaade Uku Masingu luuletõlkimisest. Choices and possibilities: A survey of Uku Masing’s poetry translations

Methis: Studia Humaniora Estonica, 2011
This article gives a survey of the emblematic Estonian poet, theologian and scholar Uku Masing’s (1909– 1985) known poetry translations. The object is not a poetics of translation or an analysis of language, but an overview of the texts of poetry Masing ...
Aile Tooming
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The folk heritage and the origination of an Egyptian national identity in jewelry design

Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2018
The Egyptian identity is an accumulation of multilayer of civilizations  starting from the ancient Egyptian to the Greco-Roman followed by the Coptic then the Islamic periods.
Samaa Wahed
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Arabization and language change in Egypt : the impact of Coptic as a substrate language

, 2015
This paper will focus on the Arabization process in Egypt, which occurred from the 7th century onwards. More specifically, it will focus on the linguistic change from Coptic to Arabic from the vantage point of the impact that Coptic had on Arabic.
Pilette, Perrine, Language change in the Arab World   +1 more
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Armeno-Aethiopica in the Middle Ages: Geography, Tales of Christianization, Calendars, and Anti-Dyophysite Polemics in the First Millennium

Aethiopica, 2022
Research for this article had the purpose of exploring medieval Armenian–Ethiopian connections. The investigations revealed three main contexts where Ethiopia and Ethiopians feature in the Armenian sources of the first millennium, without necessarily ...
Zaroui Pogossian
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