[PDF] The Future Of Studies In Coptic Biblical And Ecclesiastical Literature eBook

Author : Hoogendijk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004427791

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The seriesPapyrologica Lugduno-Batava is intended as a forum for the publication of texts, articles and monographs on the theme of law and society in Ancient Egypt, in particular in the Graeco-Roman period. The focus of the series lies on the Greek sources, however attention is also given to demotic texts, as well as to documents in Hieratic, Coptic and Latin. The series is a publication of the Foundation for the Papyrological Institute of the University of Leiden. The aim of the Foundation is the promotion of the study of Greek and Demotic papyrology in Leiden.

Author : Gawdat Gabra
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0810870576

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During the first century, Saint Mark brought Christianity to Egypt and in so doing, formed the basis for the Coptic Orthodox Church. Today, Copts, members of the Coptic Church, compromise the largest Christian Community in the Middle East. The Coptic Church is more than 19 centuries old and has produced thousands of texts and biblical and theological studies. During the last half of the 20th century, however, economic and political discrimination has forced between 400,000 and one million Copts to emigrate from Egypt, with the majority settling in North America and Australia. The A to Z of the Coptic Church details the history of one of the oldest Christian churches. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and more than 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important people, organizations, and structures; the theology and practices of the church; its literature and liturgy; and monasteries and churches.

Author : Liv Ingeborg Lied
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110603470

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The present volume provides a comparative look at the contents and layout features of secondary annotations in biblical manuscripts across linguistic traditions. Due to the privileged focus on the text in the columns, these annotations and the practices that produced them have not received the scholarly attention they deserve. The vast richness of extant verbal and figurative notes accompanying the biblical texts in the intercolumns and margins of the manuscript pages have thus been largely overlooked. The case studies gathered in this volume explore Jewish and Christian biblical manuscripts through the lens of their annotations, addressing the various relationships between the primary layer of text and the secondary notes, and exploring the roles and functions of annotated manuscripts as cultural artifacts. By approaching biblical manuscripts as potential "notepads", the volume offers theoretical reflection and empirical analyses of the ways in which secondary notes may shed new light on the development and transmission of text traditions, the shifting engagement with biblical manuscripts over time, as well as the change of use and interpretation that may result from the addition of the notes themselves.

Author : Alastair Hamilton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 2006-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0191537187

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In seventeenth-century Europe the Copts, or the Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria, were widely believed to hold the key to an ancient wisdom and an ancient theology. Their language was thought to lead to the deciphering of the hieroglyphs and their Church to retain traces of early Christian practices as well as early Egyptian customs. Now available in paperback for the first time, this first, full-length study of the subject, discusses the attempts of Catholic missionaries to force the Church of Alexandria into union with the Church of Rome and the slow accumulation of knowledge of Coptic beliefs, undertaken by Catholics and Protestants. It ends with a survey of the study of the Coptic language in the West and of the uses to which it was put by Biblical scholars, antiquarians, theologians, and Egyptologists.

Author : Charles Kannengiesser
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 900453153X

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Through this comprehensive Handbook, the reader will obtain a balanced and cohesive picture of the Early Church. It gives an overall view of the reception, transmission, and interpretation of the Bible in the life and thought of the Church during the first five centuries of Christianity. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004098152).

Author : Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 2015-11
Category : History
ISBN : 019027753X

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The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early formation of Byzantium and the European Middle Ages. These events are set in the context of widespread literary, artistic, cultural, and religious change during the period. The geographical scope of this Handbook is unparalleled among comparable surveys of Late Antiquity; Arabia, Egypt, Central Asia, and the Balkans all receive dedicated treatments, while the scope extends to the western kingdoms, and North Africa in the West. Furthermore, from economic theory and slavery to Greek and Latin poetry, Syriac and Coptic literature, sites of religious devotion, and many others, this Handbook covers a wide range of topics that will appeal to scholars from a diverse array of disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity engages the perennially valuable questions about the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval, while providing a much-needed touchstone for the study of Late Antiquity itself.

Author : Elizabeth A. Livingstone
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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Papers presented at the Eleventh International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1991 (see also Studia Patristica 24, 25, 27 and 28). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.

Author : Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521871379

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A comprehensive portrayal of Egypt from the fourth to the seventh centuries.