A miracle story of apocryphal origin (supposedly the Act of Peter), transformed into a plot with a typical paradoxical element, became popular in the oriental Christianity and in medieval Europe: this is how it got into the apocryphal New Testament narratives; among others into the newly discovered Ethiopian Book of the Cock, some early Coptic fragments and the medieval manuscripts of the Gospe...

Abstract This paper experiments with Burton Mack’s invitation to rethink how scholars frame the past by examining two discourses in Copto-Arabic studies. First, I present scholarly of twentieth and twenty-first centuries about medieval Coptic past, second, examine traditional is perceived legal collections. claim that closely reading these collections reveals ways their authors theorized negoti...

¿Shall we call Mary as a mediator of grace? The present article seeks to provide an an-swer this question based on the Catholic doctrines, with particular emphasis in Egyptian context given fact that it can serve example ecumenical and interreligious (in which there are Coptic orthodox church, protestants Muslims). purpose such research is promote dialogue encourage comprehension through new ma...

Our aim is to provide a new edition with translation and commentary of the second column P. Berol. 7927 + 9588 21179, corresponding so-called Parthenope’s Novel. The first was also edited by us in Journal Juristic Papyrology 28(2016), pp. 235–50. original, perhaps one Greek novels, produced long complex tradition versions prose verse Christian martyrology, translated into different languages (G...