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WHY CAN’T THE COPTS TRANSLATE AESOP’S FABLES INTO COPTIC?
From Aesop’s Fables for Young People, Foulsham’s Boy and Girl Fiction Library (London, c. 1955) The Copts can translate Aesop’s Fables into Coptic. But they haven’t. What is already available in the...
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COPTIC ILLUSTRATION OF SAINT MERCURIUS FROM THE TENTH CENTURY
Oriental manuscript 6801 (Or 6801) is kept at the British Library. It is a Coptic parchment manuscript in the Sahidic dialect and is dated to 996-1004. It has the title of: Mercurius the General,...
View ArticleCRITICISM OF KERRY E. VERRONE’S MIGHTY DEEDS AND MIRACLES BY APA PHOEBAMMON
Kerry E. Verrone has published a senior thesis, Mighty Deeds and Miracles by Apa Phoebammon, the Egyptian martyr (Rhode Island, 2002). It is comprised of edition and translation of the Coptic...
View ArticleNEVER CONFUSE THE VICES OF SERVITUDE WITH THE VIRTUES OF CHRISTIANITY
Lord Cromer has written in his Modern Egypt about the Copts, criticising their character and essentially disparaging them for what he calls “the vices of servitude”. No one likes others to criticise...
View ArticleDID THE COPTS’ CONSIDERATION OF THEIR LANGUAGE AS A SACRED LANGUAGE...
I want to brainstorm my readers: Did the Copts’ consideration of their language as sacred contribute to its demise? I don’t know the answer but I simply entertain the notion. We know that the Copts...
View ArticleTHE PATHETIC EXPECTATIONS OF THE COPTS FROM EGYPT’S GOVERNMENTS
Listen to the Copts of today, talk to them, read their writings in order to find what they demand exactly from Egypt’s successive governments which are dominated by the Arabs and Muslims, and you will...
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FLAGS 4: THE LEBANESE FLAG ENCOMPASSES ALL BY ENCOMPASSING NO PARTICULAR...
We have seen that Egypt’s flag was not made with any consideration for the Copts. In fact it alienates them from the Egyptian state. It refers to Arab identity, and in this sense it is difficult to...
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FLAGS 5: FLAGS ARE NOT ONLY FOR SOVEREIGN STATES AND THE COPTS MUST HAVE...
Figure 1: The Berber, Assyrian and Aramean flags In the previous parts, I have spoken about the Egyptian, Greek and Lebanese flags, and I have demonstrated why some are reflective of their component...
View ArticleBAGHDADI IS DEAD. A JUST END FOR THE BUTCHER OF MANY COPTS AND NON-COPTS. WE...
Baghdadi the leader of the horrible Islamic State is dead. His followers beheaded the 21 Coptic martyrs in Libya. Many others across the word have been butchered influenced by his ideology. It is...
View ArticleTHE THREE LEVELS OF COPTIC POETRY
I have written before about Coptic literature and what constitutes Coptic literature, On Coptic Literature: What is [Should Be] Coptic Literature?, and defined Coptic literature as “the collective body...
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THE BRITISH ART CRITIC, JONATHAN JONES, ON THE CHARACTER OF COPTIC ART
Figure 1: A stone sculpture on show at the Coptic Art Revealed exhibition in Cairo in 2010. Photograph: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images Jonathan Jones is a famous British art critic, author of several...
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THE HOLY TREE OF METERAH, EGYPT: A COLOURED LITHOGRAPH BY LOUIS HAGHE AFTER...
The Holy Tree of Meterah, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849 In the year 1838, the British (Scottish) Orientalist painter, David Roberts (1796 – 1864), visited Egypt...
View ArticleMUHAMMAD ALI, ‘ARABI, MUSTAFA KAMIL, MUHAMMAD FARID, SAAD ZAGHLUL, MUSTAFA...
MUHAMMAD ALI (and all those rulers who came from his seed, Ibrahin Pasha, Abbas I, Sa’eed, Ismail, Tawfiq, Abbas II, Fuad, and Farouq) ‘Arabi, Mustafa Kamil, Muhammad Farid, Saad Zaghlul, Nasser,...
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WHY HAS THE INFLUENCE OF COPTIC IN THE SPOKEN ARABIC OF EGYPT BEEN SO SMALL?
The Czech Egyptologist, Jaroslav Černý (1898 – 1970) The Czech, Jaroslav Černý (1898 – 1970), was a prominent Egyptologist who was Professor of Egyptology at University of Oxford, and wrote several...
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THE SHOCKING FACT THAT POPE DIOSCORUS I DID NOT SPEAK COPTIC
Pope Dioscorus, mural in the Monastery of St. Anthony from the 13th century The Panegyric of Macarius, Bishop of Tkôw, is available in both Bohairic and Sahidic manuscripts. The Bohairic version was...
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SAINT SISOES THE GREAT, WEEPING AT THE TOMB OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Saint Sisoes the Great (also Sisoi, Shishoy) was an Egyptian(Coptic) ascetic from the second half of the fourth century and the early sixth century (d. 429), who lived in the desert of Scete before he...
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THE BEAUTIFUL COPTIC MONSTERY IN JAFFA BY THE ISRAELI ARTIST AURORE VIGNE
Aurore Vigne is an Israeli watercolour artist who painted in watercolour a beautiful painting: Orthodox Monastery in Yofo (Jaffa). The monastery in the painting is Coptic, and the painting, as...
View ArticleTHE COPTIC SYNAXARIUM
The Synaxarium (or Synaxarion) in the Coptic Church is a liturgical book containing short narratives of the lives of saints, or exposition of feasts and fasts, arranged on the days of the year, and...
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THE POPES OF ROME IN THE COPTIC SYNAXARIUM: INTRODUCTION
The Vatican Basilica The Coptic Synaxarium has many entries about the Popes of Rome. Considering the great animosity that arose between Roma and Alexandria following the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD...
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THE POPES OF ROME IN THE COPTIC SYNAXARIUM: FELIX I
Pope Felix I fresco in the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican Pope Felix I was enthroned as Archbishop of Rome on 3 January 269 AD after the death of Dionysius (256 – 268, 26 Dec.). His papacy continued for...
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