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interested in gaining a better understanding of the language of the Liturgy. Price is $32.00 ($38.00 for non-members). Also by the same author, volume 4, covering the Coptic Liturgy of St. Gregory, is in print. Other important titles available are the 2-volume Coptic Art Pictorial set ($35 ($40 for non- members)), and Dr. Gawdat Gabra's "Cairo - Old Coptic Churches" , ($12 ($15 for non-members)). Fr. Matthias F. Wahba's edition of the Agbeyia ($4 ($5 for non-members)) and that of the Coptic Liturgy ($12 ($15 for non-members)). Fr. Wahba's editions included contributions by the Society to the translation of many of the Coptic Texts in them. 7. Bulletin of the Society: The third volume of the Annual Bulletin of the Society was mailed to all members in good-standing. Copies for sale are still available. For non-members, and dues-paying members needing extra copies, the price will be $5.00 ($4.00 for members). Copies of Volume 1 and 2 are still available for sale. Volume 4, which include the proceedings of the last Coptic Symposium held at Los Angeles, will be available early next year. 8. The Society on The Internet: We are still at the same address, "http://www.stshenouda.com". Due to other activities, we have not been able to enhance the information available in our Manual of Coptic Studies Section of the site. Our future plan is to make material available in Acrobat PDF. This will include outlines, manuscript lists, and bibliographies. 9. St. Mark Foundation for Coptic History: Dr. Fawzy Estafanous of Cleveland Ohio, is spear- heading the formation of a new foundation for the detailed Study of Coptic History (Church and people). This foundation will be engaged in promoting among as well as involving Copts in Egypt and abroad in this endeavor. The foundation will also work on the coordination of the work of all Coptic groups involved in Coptic Studies in Egypt as well as abroad. The bulk of the activities of the foundation will be centered around research and publishing in the field of Coptic History. The

foundation will establish a endowment fund to finance the proposed activities. The Society is planning to provide all possible assistance for the new foundation because it will help further the goals that it set many years ago. We hope the Coptic community will do the same. We applaud all positive Lay Coptic activities in this field. 10. Coptic Book Library: The Library is still growing. We added many volumes, too many to list here. The most notable is an original 3-volume copy of Swete's Septuagint . A complete list of these volumes is included in our Society's Progress Report, included in the membership package. 11. Coptic Classes: The new class for translation and study of selected Coptic (Bohairic) Biblical texts at the Center, started on Saturday, July 26, 1997, 6-7:30 p.m. The first session deals with translation and study of selected texts from the Bohairic Version of the Book of Genesis. There is a workbook published by the Society for use by the participants. A new session of Introductory Bohairic Coptic began at the Center. The Next session is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, November 5, 1997. This session will be conducted during weekday evenings. The exact time will be set in the first meeting. Also we have the Advanced Coptic Seminar. This is held on Sundays from 6- 7:30 p.m. It is divided up into two sessions, one translating more advanced Bohairic literary texts, and the second dealing with Sahidic monastic texts. These classes are also taught by Mr. Hany N. Takla, the Society's president. 12. Research Projects: The transcription and the review of the Coptic glosses of the famous Hibat Allah ibn Al-Assal's 13th century critical Arabic translation of the Coptic Gospels, is complete. There are few glosses in the Compiler notes that still need to be transcribed. This manuscript will be edited with an English translation as part of the Arabic Series of CSCO. The Manuscript preserves the first known critical edition of the Gospels in history. Mr. Ashraf Hanna, of our Center's staff is continuing his work on collation of the different manuscripts of the Coptic (Arabic) Synaxarium.

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