Studies in Coptic Culture: Transmission and InteractionMariam 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 survived and interacted with the country's majority population over the centuries. Studies in Coptic Culture attempts to examine these issues from divergent perspectives. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 The Coptic Acts of Ephesus | 11 |
2 The Role of Coptic Translators in the Transmission of Patristic Biblical Commentary in the First Millennium ad | 19 |
3 Toward a Sociohistorical Approach to the Corpus of Coptic Medical Texts1 | 33 |
The Case of the Coptic Church | 55 |
5 The Depiction of Muslims in the Miracles of Anba Barsauma al Uryan | 65 |
An Evaluation of the Biographical Data in the Arabic Version | 77 |
The Assimilation of Byzantine Art by Arab Christians in Mamluk Egypt and Syria | 93 |
8 Representations of Copts in Early Nineteenthcentury Italian Travel Accounts | 117 |
9 Copts in Modern Egyptian Literature | 143 |
Expressions of Social Agency and Coptic Identity | 155 |
11 Rehabilitating a Late Antique Mural Painting at the Red Monastery Sohag | 173 |
12 Transmission of Coptic Music from the Past to the Future | 185 |
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