“The Mysteries of the Greek Alphabet” – part 4 of translation from Coptic now online
May 18th, 2013 by Roger Pearse
Anthony Alcock continues working on this late Coptic text. Part 4, of 5, is here: alphabet_alcock4
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“The Mysteries of the Greek Alphabet” – part 3 of translation from Coptic now online
May 7th, 2013 by Roger Pearse
Anthony Alcock continues his translation of the late medieval Coptic text which reads symbolism into the letters of the Greek alphabet. Part 3 (of 5) is now available! alphabet_alcock3 See also part 1 and part 2. I’m sure that all of us are grateful to Dr Alcock for making this text available to us all. This [...]
“The mysteries of the Greek alphabet” – part 2 now online in English
April 23rd, 2013 by Roger Pearse
Dr Anthony Alcock has continued his translation of this fascinating late Coptic text on the ‘meaning’ of the Greek alphabet (part 1 here). Part 2 (of 5) is here: alphabet_alcock2 (PDF)
“The Mysteries of the Greek Alphabet” – part 1 of Coptic text now online
April 9th, 2013 by Roger Pearse
Dr Anthony Alcock has been at it again. Fresh from translating the late Coptic poem, the Triadon, he has attacked another late Coptic text. Today I received a PDF with the first part (out of five) of an English translation of a 14th century work, The Mysteries of the Greek Alphabet. It is here: alphabet1_alcock_2013 (PDF) [...]
Translation of the Triadon, part 2 – now online in English
April 2nd, 2013 by Roger Pearse
Anthony Alcock has continued translating the Triadon, the 14th century poem which happens to be the last literary text composed in Coptic. He has kindly made this accessible to us all. A PDF of the second part is here: Triadon_Part_Two_Alcock_2013.pdf Thank you very much, Dr Alcock!
The dialogue of the Saint with the mummy of a Graeco-Egyptian: readings in the Life of St. Pisentius
March 22nd, 2013 by Roger Pearse
Dioscorus Boles has sent me a couple of links from his Coptic Literature blog which I think will be of wide interest. The posts are referenced copiously, and of a very high standard. The first of these is an article on E. Wallis Budge, who published an immense amount of Coptic and ancient Egyptian material. [...]
Translation of the Triadon, part 1 – now online in English
February 12th, 2013 by Roger Pearse
Anthony Alcock has been busy. He has made a translation of the first half of the Triadon and is generously making it available to us all. The Triadon is a 14th century poem which has the distinction of being the last literary text composed in Coptic. Triadon.pdf
New translation of the Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah online in English
January 21st, 2013 by Roger Pearse
Dr Anthony Alcock writes to say that he has made a new English translation of the Coptic text of the Apocalypse of Elijah. This is a curious text. There is a fragmentary Jewish version and it was probably rewritten as a Christian apocryphon in the 3rd century A.D. Some have suggested syncretism with ancient Egyptian ideas as well. Charlesworth’s notes [...]
More modern Coptic literature online
December 7th, 2012 by Roger Pearse
John Rostom has written to tell us of other places where we may find words by the modern Copts: Should you be interested in other books and publications by modern Coptic Orthodox writers, besides those authored by the late Pope Shenouda III, you can access and freely download these from another valuable online source known [...]
Modern Coptic Christian materials online in PDF
December 4th, 2012 by Roger Pearse
It’s not very easy for non-specialists to find material by modern Coptic authors in Arabic. Yet it does exist, and much of it is even online. In a series of comments, John Rostom has very kindly let us know about a bunch of links which are simply too useful to be left only as comments. Here [...]