Studies in Coptic culture : transmission and interaction / edited by Mariam F. Ayad.

Coptic contributions to the formative theological debates of Christianity have long been recognized. Less well known are other, equally valuable, Coptic contributions to the transmission and preservation of technical and scientific knowledge, and a full understanding of how Egypt's Copts surviv...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Ayad, Mariam F. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cairo, Egypt ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2016]
Edition:[North American version]
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures and Tables; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; 1 The Coptic Acts of Ephesus; 2 The Role of Coptic Translators in the Transmission of Patristic Biblical Commentary in the First Millennium ad; 3 Toward a Sociohistorical Approach to the Corpus of Coptic Medical Texts1; 4 Wine Production in Medieval Egypt: The Case of the Coptic Church; 5 The Depiction of Muslims in the Miracles of Anba Barsauma al- Uryan; 6 The Encomium on Bishop Pesynthios: An Evaluation of the Biographical Data in the Arabic Version.
  • 7 An Icon and a Gospel Book: The Assimilation of Byzantine Art by Arab Christians in Mamluk Egypt and Syria8 Representations of Copts in Early Nineteenth-century Italian Travel Accounts; 9 Copts in Modern Egyptian Literature; 10 Coptic Icons: Expressions of Social Agency and Coptic Identity; 11 Rehabilitating a Late Antique Mural Painting at the Red Monastery, Sohag; 12 Transmission of Coptic Music from the Past to the Future; Bibliography.