The programme run by the Egyptology and Coptic Unit provides students with in-depth insight into Egyptian civilisation, with classes in history, archaeology and religion. Students study the Egyptian ...
Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written with mostly Greek letters. This video traces the development of Coptic from ...
The interactions between Coptic Christians and Muslims over several centuries will be the subject of an upcoming lecture series at McMurry University. Bishop Anba Suriel, Ph.D., Coptic Orthodox ...
A new song highlights a growing interest outside the Egyptian church in reviving an ancient language of the Christian world. The darkened New York church was packed with almost 1,000 congregants ...
The heresy-fighting bishop Irenaeus of Lyon, France, mentioned the Gospel of Judas about 180 AD, linking the writing to a Gnostic sect. Some two centuries later, Epiphanius, bishop of Cyprus, ...
A previously unknown scrap of ancient papyrus written in ancient Egyptian Coptic includes the words “Jesus said to them, my wife,” — a discovery likely to renew a fierce debate in the Christian world ...