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7. Bulletin of the Society: The fourth volume of the Annual Bulletin of the Society is being prepared. It will include the proceedings of the last Coptic Symposium held at Los Angeles. Copies for sale are still available for volumes 1, 2, and 3. For non-members, and dues-paying members needing extra copies, the price will be $6.00, $4.00, and $5.00 respectively (for members $5.00, $3.00, and $4.00 respectively). 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. The Coptic Language Section seems to be the most frequently visited part of the site. 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 scholarly activities of Copts in Egypt and abroad in this endeavor. The foundation will also work on coordinating 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 an 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 in full. New acquisitions include four doctoral dissertations on Coptic Studies subjects presented during the period 1993-5. Also, we acquired copies of Aland & Aland, The Greek New Testament (4th

ed. rev.); B.Altaner, Patrologie - Leben, Schriften und Lehre des Kirchenvater ; W.Bauer, A Greek- English Lexicon of the NT and Other early Christian Literature ; H.I.Bell, Egypt from Alexander the Great to the Arab Conquest ; P.Brown, The Making of Late Antiquity ; B.Layton, The Gnostic Treatise on Resurrection from Nag Hammadi ; Meyendorf et al, Christian Spirituality - Origins to the 12th Century ; J.M.Modrzejewski, The Jews of Egypt - From Ramses II to Emperor Hadrian ; Mosheim, Institutes of Ecclesiastical History , 2-vol 1857; J.Patrich, Sabas, Leader of Palestinian Monasticism ; H.W.Smythe, Greek Grammar; B.Taylor, The Analytical Lexicon to the Septuagint . Dr. Gillum of BYU was kind enough to send us a bound copy of Dr. Macomber's unpublished Final Inventory of the Microfilmed Manuscripts of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, Al-Azbakiyah, Cairo . We are very grateful for such a gift which will enhance our work on the Coptic manuscripts. 11. Coptic Classes: A new session of Introductory Bohairic Coptic began at the Center on Wednesday, November 5, 1997. This session is conducted on Wednesday evenings. Two advanced translations seminars are also conducted at the Center. The first is conducted on Saturdays, 6-7:30 p.m., dealing with translations of excerpts from the Bohairic Genesis. The second is conducted on Fridays 7-8:30 p.m., dealing with a Bohairic text, attributed to St. Cyril of Alexandria, concerning the Three Saintly Youth. There are plans in the work to conduct a series of 2-hour seminars to train students on how to conduct research using primary sources like manuscripts. Mr. Hany N. Takla, the Society's president, is the instructor for the above courses and seminars. 12. Research Projects: Mr. Ashraf Hanna, a member of our center's staff, is continuing his work on the collation of the different manuscripts of the Coptic (Arabic) Synaxarium. Similarly, Mr. Sherief Sorial is working on the Coptic Psalmodia. All of these projects are designed to trace the

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