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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.
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Contributors
Foreword
Introduction 1. The Coptic Acts of Ephesus
Richard Price
2. The role of Coptic translators in the transmission of Patristic Biblical Comment in the First Millennium CE
Carol Downer
3. Talking About Medicine in Early Islamic Egypt:Toward a Socio-Historical Approach to the Corpus of Coptic Medical Texts
Tonio Sebastian Richter
4. Wine Production in Medieval Egypt: The Case of the Coptic Church
Mennat-Allah El Dorry
5. The Encomium on Bishop Pesynthios: An Evaluation of the Biographical Data in the Arabic version
Renate Dekker
6. The Depiction of Muslims in the Miracles of Anba Barsauma al-‘Uryan
Asuka Tsuji
7. A fourteenth-century Icon of St. Mark and Miniatures from a Gospel Book: The Assimilation of Byzantine Art by the Coptic Élite in early Mamluk Egypt
Lucy-Anne Hunt
8. Coptic Icons: Expressions of Social Agency and Coptic Identity? (Part 2)
Helene Moussa
9. Rehabilitating a Late Antique Mural Painting at the Red Monastery, Sohag
Michael Jones
10. Transmission of Coptic Music from the Past to the Future
Magdalena Kuhn
11. Representations of Copts in Early Nineteenth Century Italian Travel Accounts
Daniele Salvoldi
12. Copts in Modern Egyptian Literature
Laila Farid