SSCN Voumes 1-10, 1994-2004

St. Shenouda Coptic Newsletter

Mr. Nader Salib - Attitude of the British Occupation of Egypt Toward the Copts. Mr. Ramses Wassif - Copts during the Nineth Century AD. Mrs. Mary Erian - Title to be announced. Mr. Maged S. Mikhail - Evolution of the Coptic Pronunciation System Mr. Hany N. Takla - The Revival and Modernization of the Coptic Language Mr. Ashraf W. Hanna - The Coptic (Arabic) Synaxarium (Project Update) Dr. Adeeb Makar - The Liturgical terms used in the English Translation of the Liturgy Mr. Sherief Sorial - The Coptic annual Psalmodia (Project Update) Dr. Tim Vivian - Some Reflections on Current Research in Early Egyptian Monasticism Dr. Tim Vivian - A Journey to the Interior: The Monasteries of Saint Antony and Saint Paul

customarily surveys of research done over a specific period of tim e in a specific area in the field. Each plenary paper will be scheduled as a 30-minute presentation with no follow-up discussion. The second type is the regular presentations where the researcher briefly presents the work that he/she has or is doing in the field. These presentations will be structured in a 20- minute form at with a 10-m inute follow-up discussion. The m aximum tim e allotted to these presentations, including the discussion, will be 30 minutes. Notification and Abstracts: Those interested in participating need to notif y the Society in writing as soon as possible. W ritten abstracts will be due by June 1, 1998. Publication of Proceedings: The papers presented at the Conference will be published in the 5th volume of the Society's bulletin for the year 1998-99. A final draft of each paper shall be submitted by the presenter no later than October 31, 1998.

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Format: Presentations are classified into two types. The first is plenary papers which are

Standing Up To Leo: Paragraphs 29-37 Of The Life Of Longinus And Opposition To Chalcedon In Late Antique Egypt (by Tim Vivian)

The Life of Longinus was written anonymously, probably in the sixth century. It tells the story of Apa Longinus and his spiritual father, Apa Lucius, who travel from Lycia in Asia Minor to Egypt in search of a monastic life of peace and quiet. Longinus comes to the fam ous monastery of the Enaton at the ninth m ilestone west of Alexandria where he stays briefly before leaving and founding his own m onastic community. 1 Most of the Life consists of theological and spiritual reflection on the themes of humility and vainglory; in all probability this material makes up the earliest strata of the work. At som e point, a later editor

added the anti-Chalcedonian section that so strongly shapes the end of the Life (pars. 29-37). 2 Whatever its editorial history, this section provides a fascinating glim pse into events and, im portantly, feelings that occurred in Egypt after 451 when the Council of Chalcedon accepted the Tom e of Leo, with its def inition of the two natures of Christ, and the subsequent decision by the em peror to im pose that decision on the Christians of Egypt. 3 The reaction of Egyptian m onks to these episcopal and imperial decisions makes up pars. 29-37 of the Life of Longinus , the lone section of the Life that its editor believes has historical basis. 4

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