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. Through the careful examination of select case studies that range in date from the earliest phases of Coptic culture to the present day, twelve international scholars address issues of cultural transmission, cross-cultural perception, representation, and inter-faith interaction. Their approaches are as varied as their individual disciplines, covering literary criticism, textual studies, and comparative literature as well as art historical, archaeo-botanical, and historical research methods. The divergent perspectives and methods presented in this volume will provide a fuller picture of what it meant to be Coptic in centuries past and prompt further research and scholarship into these subjects.
Author(s): Mariam Ayad
Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 288
City: Cairo
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 Syria
8 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
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