Comments on: People with knowledge of Coptic and Arabic

By: Roger Pearse

Roger Pearse — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:03:35 +0000

Thank you for the suggestion!

By: Kurt Werthmuller

Kurt Werthmuller — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:03:57 +0000

You may also want to look up Jason Zaborowski at Bradley University; his dissertation/book on John of Phanajoit made use of both Coptic and Arabic texts.

By: stephan huller

stephan huller — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:26:30 +0000

I will send an email to Karlheinz Schlusser about his skills in Arabic. Yes he is native tongue is German but he is absolutely fluent in English.

By: stephan huller

stephan huller — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:21:47 +0000

I was half asleep when I typed that. I only saw the Coptic part. Sorry

By: Roger Pearse

Roger Pearse — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:43:56 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions, people! Stephen Davis did kindly do a bit of work for me on something, but he was really much too busy to do more.

Does April de Connick know Arabic, Stephan?

Thanks for the notes about the Hexapla edition, Chaerephon! The note on biography was interesting. The past is vanishing all the time. When I look at Wikipedia articles about 70’s rock bands, the omissions and errors from what I remember seem striking.

By: stephan huller

stephan huller — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:55:53 +0000

Most of the translators of the Nag Hammadi texts. Try April at forbiddengospels.blogspot.com. She’s a blogger and she reads and loves your blog. She’s also very helpful and nice!

By: chaerephon

chaerephon — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:21:16 +0000

Re: post subject (Yahoo acting up again) –

You could contact both the Semitics & Egyptian
and the Early Christian Studies departments at
The Catholic University of America (and also
Harvard Div, Duke Div, Brigham Young and ND).

Since you posted about Origen & Eusebius recently,
I did a quick check for Field’s edition of the Hexapla.

It’s been online for quite a while (at least 2006?).

I don’t recall whether you’ve posted previously about
it, nor whether it has been linked to anywhere else -
but enjoy!

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Field,_Frederick

http://www.archive.org/details/origenhexapla01unknuoft

http://www.archive.org/details/origenhexapla02unknuoft

PS. A footnote from a 1950s book indicated sixteen factual
errors in one biographical entry from the Enyclopedia
Britannica (and a proportionate amount in Schaff-Herzog).

Food for thought in these days of digitization.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:31:20 +0000

Stephen Davis, Yale