It’s often a struggle to find a digitalised version of the New Testament whether in Sahidic or Bohairic as compared with scanned printed versions. The first will allow you easier targeted access and the ability to copy and paste which helps in study and writing.
There are two sites that have digitalised J Warren Wells’ publication: Sahidica – A New Edition of the New Testament in Sahidic Coptic:
- New Christian Bible Study. And you can access the Sahidic digitalised version here.
- STEP Bible from Tyndale House, Cambridge UK. You can access it here.
The second site (by Cambridge) publishes the text in an easier to the eye style. Wells’ printed publication of the Coptic New Testament (in both Sahidic and Bohaitric) is to be praised. But the printed text (which is reflected in the New Christian Bible Study digitalised form) is overcrowded with little attention to space. It is almost like a scriptoria continua which makes reading difficult. The jinkim is not used and this is a defect as I think it is an integral part of Coptic. Another problem, which I don’t think it’s Wells’ problem, is the minimal punctuation. We are still awaiting a punctuated Coptic Bible.
One would hope that the two sites also digitalise Wells’ version of the Coptic Testament in the Bohairic dialect.
