TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ayad,Mariam F.
TI  - Studies in Coptic culture: transmission and interaction 
SN  - 9781617977664
AV  - DT72.C7 
U1  - 932.023 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Cairo, Egypt, New York
PB  - The American University in Cairo Press
KW  - Copts
KW  - History
KW  - Coptes
KW  - Histoire
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Ancient
KW  - Egypt
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - fast
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Religion
KW  - 332 B.C.-640 A.D
KW  - 30 B.C.-640 A.D
KW  - 332 B.C.-638 A.D
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Égypte
KW  - 332 av. J.-C.-640
KW  - 30 av. J.-C.-640
KW  - Civilisation
KW  - Antiquités
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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
N2  - 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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