This article publishes for the first time a Sahidic parchment leaf containing portions of Gal 1.4–9. Its main interest lies in omission possessive 1.4d, which reads ‘God Father’ as opposed to mainstream our Father’. Two possible explanations are proposed: scribal error or translational assimilation, involving more complex question relationship between Coptic and Greek versions. Beyond biblical ...

This article constitutes the editio princeps of Coptic manuscripts from private collection Alexandr Palnikov (1857–1917), presently housed at University History Museum Perm State University. All these are written on papyrus and can be dated to second half first millennium C. E. The twenty-five fragments with text come ten different manuscripts. Of those, two seem literary; rest, documentary. tr...

This article explores the politics of knowledge involved in understanding and responding to epidemics in an era of global health governance and biosecurity. It develops and applies an approach focused on how multiple, competing narratives about epidemics are constructed, mobilized and interact, and selectively justify pathways of intervention and response. A detailed ethnographic case study of ...

Large-scale particle-in-cell calculations of the plasma wake interactions of two negatively charged grains smaller than the Debye length are carried out using the coptic code over a wide range of subsonic plasma flow velocities. In plasmas with the temperature ratio T(e)/T(i)=100, it is found that a single grain's oscillatory wake disappears for flow Mach numbers M less than approximately 0.3, ...

1. On April 24, 2009 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it had received reports from the United States and Mexico about a new form of swine influenza, Type A (H1N1). Although the confirmed cases in the United States were relatively mild, the reports from Mexico were more alarming. Fifty-nine individuals, most of whom had been young and healthy, were dead in Mexico City alone.1 A...

Accelerated changes are taking place in the food habits of the present day Egyptians. Examples are drawn from foods that continue to be consumed by those considered guardians of the Egyptian tradition (Coptic Christians and isolated farming communities) and from interpretation of archaeological evidence. Recent decades have witnessed the progressive erosion of the traditional Egyptian diet and ...

ΩTimes and ΩHelvetica will be public domain virtual Timesand Helvetica-like fonts based upon real PostScript fonts, which we call “Glyph Containers”. They will contain all necessary characters for typesetting efficiently (that is, with TEX quality) in all languages and systems using the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew and Tifinagh alphabets and their derivatives. All Unicode characters w...

Edition of Coptic letter from the collection Ghent University Library (P. Gand. Inv. 47). The is addressed to a certain Dioscorus, most probably Dioscorus Aphrodite. fragmentary status does not allow full understanding text, but formulary clearly shows monastic context, in all likelihood monastery Apa Apollos founded by Dioscorus’ father 537 CE. Since senders address as their ‘brother’, it like...