Showcase: Window onto Egyptian Monasticism Shenoute: 4th/5th century abbot and eminent Coptic writer Tuesday 17 May 6.00–8.00 pm Tagungszentrum, Meeting Room 1, “Großer Seminarraum” Welcome address by the Director of the Collaborative Research Centre “Education and Religion”, Peter Gemeinhardt, Professor of Church History at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen •...
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The Digital Edition and Translation of the Coptic Old Testament at the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Göttingen is dedicated to digitally describe, edit and analyse the transmission of the Coptic Old Testament with a focus on the Sahidic tradition. The long-term project has an opening for a (paid) internship, to be filled at the earliest possible date. This internship will give the...
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Apps for Coptic have been available in iOS for quite some time, but with the introduction of iOS 8 developers were enabled to publish their own custom keyboards. Here’s a little bit of information on how to install Coptic fonts and keyboards on iPhones and iPads.   You have to purchase two apps from the AppStore first. AnyFont  ($1.99) is little helper utility...
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Public Lectures in Göttingen Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ), Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14 Tuesday (July 21) – KWZ 2.601 9:00 – 10:30 Frank Feder, The Sahidic Version of the Old Testament 13:00 – 14:15 Nathalie Bosson, Textual Criticism of the Coptic Bible 14:30 – 15:45 Nathalie Bosson, Pap. Vat. Copt. 9: The Minor Prophets in Old Bohairic Wednesday (July 22) – KWZ 2.601 ...
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