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THE COPTIC SYNAXARIUM GERMAN TRANSLATION BY FERDINAND WÜSTENFELD
Ferdinand Wüstenfeld Ferdinand Wüstenfeld (1808 – 1899) was a German Arabist. He published many books on the literature of the Arabs. One effort of his he dedicated to Coptic literature: he published...
View ArticleTHE COPTIC SYNAXARIUM LATIN TRANSLATION BY JACQUES FORGET
Jacques (or Jacobus) Forget (1852 – 1933) was a Belgian priest, biblical and Asian (including Arabic, Syriac and Hebrew) languages scholar. In the period between 1905 and 1926, Forget translated the...
View ArticleACCESS TO FULL DIGITALISED COPTIC NEW TESTAMENT IN THE SAHIDIC DIALECT
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...
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THE MARTYRDOM OF THE EGYPTIAN SOLDIER APATIL: TEXT IN BOHAIRIC COPTIC...
The martyrdom of Apatil, an Egyptian (Coptic) soldier who was executed for his religion in the Diocletian great persecution in AD 303 is not mentioned in the Arabo-Coptic synaxarium, but his martyrdom...
View ArticleDATE AND CONTENT OF THE BOHAIRIC COPTIC MANUSCRIPT VAT.COPT 65
In a previous article, I put up the Coptic manuscripts in the Vatican Library that have been so far digitalised. There are sixteen of them. I will try to list the content of each Vat.Copt manuscript...
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TOWARDS A CRITICAL EDITION OF THE ETHIOPIC VERSION OF THE TEXTUAL TRADITION...
Dr Daria Elagina Dr. Daria Elagina is a research fellow at Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Universität Hamburg, Germany. On 29July 2019 she successfully defended her PhD dissertation in...
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ANTHONY ALCOCK AND HIS HUGE CONTRIBUTION TO COPTOLOGY AND EGYPTOLOGY
Anthony Alcock Humility is not always a virtue that scholars ascribe to, but Anthony Alcock has plenty of it. Alcock has huge interests, but he seems to be particularly interested in Coptology and...
View ArticleNOTES ON SAINT THEODORE THE EGYPTIAN 1: INTRODUCTION
This series will focus on Theodore the General, the saint who was martyred during the Diocletian persecutions. He is also known as Theodore Stratelates, Theodore the Isfahsalar and Theodore of Shwtp....
View ArticleNOTES ON SAINT THEODORE THE EGYPTIAN 2: IN THE COPTIC SYNAXARIUM
The Copts celebrate the martyrdom of St. Theodore the General on the 20th of Epip, an event which is mentioned in the Coptic synaxarium. No English-speaking scholar has edited the Coptic synaxarium but...
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NOTES ON SAINT THEODORE THE EGYPTIAN 3: THE OLDEST EXTANT DEPICTION OF THE...
Drawing of Saint Theodore the Egyptian in MSS Vat.Copt 66, p. 194r Saint Theodore the Egyptian was very popular within the Copts from early time. Witnesses to this fact are the number of churches and...
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NOTES ON SAINT THEODORE THE EGYPTIAN 4: SAINT THEODORE THE EGYPTIAN PAINTING...
Theodore the Egyptian mural at Tebtunis, Fayum (Plate XVIII in Walter’s article [see n. 1] In Part 3, The Oldest Extant Depiction of the Saint in Coptic Art, I spoke about the depiction of St....
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THE GREAT WORK ACTA MARTYRUM EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY BALESTRI AND HYVERNAT
In 1907, a great work for the Coptologists and Copts was published and printed in Paris under the title Acta Martyrum, edited and translated (in part) by Giuseppe Balestri (1866 – 1939) and Henri...
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THE MORGAN COPTIC MANUSCRIPTS ONLINE
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, U.S. The Morgan Library & Museum in New York, U.S., has digitalised the Coptic manuscripts in its hold. These include all manuscripts MSS M: G.67,...
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NOTES ON SAINT THEODORE THE EGYPTIAN 5: THE MURAL AT THE MONASTERY OF ST....
Figure 1: SS. Theodore and Sisinnius at the nave of the Church of St. Anthony – the only two saints represented as serpent (dragon)-slayers (From Bolman’s, Monastic Visions) Figure 2: St. Theodore...
View ArticleNOTES ON SAINT THEODORE THE EGYPTIAN 7: THE VAT.COPT 65 EVIDENCE
The basic life of Theodore the Egyptian is contained in the Coptic Synaxarium, which I translated into English from Arabic (See: Notes on Saint Theodore the Egyptian 2: In the Coptic Synaxarium). It...
View ArticleREVEALED: GERMAN INTERIOR MINISTER: EGYPT SPIES ON THE COPTS IN GERMANY
Berlin. The German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer presented a report on Thursday, 9 July 2020, in which he revealed that an employee (most probably of Egyptian background but not stated) of Germany’s...
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THE WORK OF HUGH G. EVELYN-WHITE IN COPTOLOGY
Plate IV, The Monasteries of the Wadi ‘N Natrun, Part 2. A. St. Macarius (from wall painting in the Monastery of Apa Jeremias at Sakkara) and B. Anba Pishoi (B.M. Add. 14594, fol.1a) Hugh G....
View ArticleWAS THE COPTIC BISHOP OF SUDAN AT THE TIME OF THE MAHDIST REVOLUTION FORCED...
In a previous article, Was it right that the Coptic bishop of Nubian and Khartoum left his flock fatherless in Khartoum as the Mahdists approached it in 1884? (May 12, 2019), I wrote about the third...
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THE REASON FOR THE SLOW RECOVERY OF THE COPTIC LANGUAGE ACCORDING TO...
Fr. Menassa Youhanna (1899 – 1930) Fr. Menassa Youhanna (1899 – 1930) was a respected Coptic priest, theologian and historian. He wrote many books, but the most important is History of the Coptic...
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THE SHAHADA FORCED ON TWO COPTS, ALONGSIDE THE ENGLISH LUPTON BEY, GOVERNOR...
Lupton Bey, Governor of Bahr al-Ghazal, 1881 – 1884 The fanatic Mahdists of Sudan, followers of Mohammad Ahmad, the self-proclaimed Mahdi, who launched a rebellion against the Turco-Egyptian rule of...
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