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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cairo, Egypt ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2016]Edition: [North American version]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9781617977664
  • 1617977667
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Studies in Coptic culture.DDC classification:
  • 932.023 23
LOC classification:
  • DT72.C7
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  • online - EBSCO
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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.
Summary: 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 survived and interacted with the country's majority population over the centuries. Studies in Coptic Culture attempts to examine these issues from divergent perspectives.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1357143

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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.

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 survived and interacted with the country's majority population over the centuries. Studies in Coptic Culture attempts to examine these issues from divergent perspectives.