The text BHO 1093 is a sermon in Sahidic Coptic honour of the protomartyr. Although identification author was uncertain until now, discovery by Alin Suciu fragment from University Michigan has allowed authorship this to be recovered and attributed Bishop John II Jerusalem (386-417). Because several glaring anachronisms, it seems doubtful that hand Hierosolymitan bishop. It more likely pseudepig...

The Arab study of Ancient Egypt was the result a universal understanding history rather than narrow purpose verifying scriptures. They were critical pre-Islamic written sources and did not accept even texts based on eyewitnesses uncritically. Arabs' work, which included accurate descriptions ancient monuments, aimed at their symbolic value function. noticed relationship Egyptian language to Cop...

Worth Estes's main interest lies in why and how ancient physicians used drugs to combat their patients' ailments. He considers the role of the physician in ancient Egypt, from Imhotep (deified by later generations as an Egyptian god of medicine) to the general practitioners. The two main sources of evidence for medicine in ancient Egypt are the medical papyri and the archaeological information ...

kephalaia, counts to the important sources of manichaean. it is written in coptic by the christians of north africa, which have converted to this faith. mani is called in this book “the apostle” and sometimes “the enlightener”. each chapter resembles to christ sermons. the disciple asks a question, and he gets the answer from the apostle. this is what each chapter is normally based on. creation...