SSCN Voumes 1-10, 1994-2004

St. Shenouda Coptic Newsletter

needing extra copies, the price will be $6.00, $4.00, and $5.00 respectively (for m embers $5.00, $3.00, and $4.00 respectively). 8. The Society on The Internet: W e are still at the sam e 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, m anuscript lists, and bibliographies. The Coptic Language Section seems to be the m ost frequently visited part of the site. 9. St. Mark Foundation for Coptic History: Dr. Fawzy Estafanous of Cleveland Ohio, is spear- heading the form ation 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 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 endowm ent fund to finance the proposed activities. The foundation after gaining non-profit status in the US, has obtained a re sounding endorsement of HH. Pope Shenouda III. He wrote a full-page letter (in Arabic) to encourge Copts to join in this worthy endeavor. He also gave perm ission to its researchers to have access to all the m anuscript depositories of the Church and the Monasteries in Egypt. Further, the official weekly periodical of the Church "El-Kiraza" in its March 13, 1998 issue reiterated such endorsem ent as well as m aking reference to one of the new projects that the Foundation will be engaged in, i.e. the electronic edition of the Coptic Encyclopedia, m entioned later in this issue of the Newsletter. The Society is planning to provide all possible assistance to the new foundation because it will help further the goals that it set m any years ago.

This will include work on Coptic History, as well as m aking the f acilities of the Coptic Center available to scholars working with the Foundation in the Western US, within the guidelines set for our Society's m embers. W e hope the Coptic community will do the sam e. W e applaud all positive Lay Coptic activities in this field. A copy of the Foundation' s first Newsletter m ay be enclosed here or will be sent separately, tim e permitting. 10. Coptic Book Library: The Library is still growing. W e added m any volumes, too m any to list in full. New acquisitions include copies of ---, The Septuagint Version Greek and English , Samuel Bagster & Sons 1851; ---, Vetus Testamentum ex Versione Septuginta Interpretum Secundum Exemplar Vaticanum ... 3-vol, Oxford 1875; van den Broek, Studies in Gnosticism and Alexandrian Christianity ; van den Broek, Studies in Gnosticism and Hellenistic Religions presented to G. Quispel ; Behrens-Abouseif, Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule ; Budge, The Dwellers of the Nile , 2nd Ed. London 1888; Duchesne, Christian Worship - Its Origin and Evolution , 4th Ed. London 1949; Endress, A Greek and Arabic Lexicon. Materials for a Dictionary of the Mediaeval Translations from Greek into Arabic , 4 parts; Galavaris, Icon in the Life of the Church ; Giordani, The Social message of the Early Church Fathers ; Khoury, Chrestomathie de Papyrologie Arabe. Documents Relatifs a La vie Privee, Sociale et Administrative ; Lane, Arabic English Lexicon , 2 vol.; Lietzmann, History of the Early Church Vol IV - The Era of the Church Fathers ; . R. Makar, Jacques Tagher -

St. Shenouda Coptic Newsletter Christians Under Moslem Rule (English Translation)[a com plimentary copy from the publisher]; McGlinchey, The Teaching of Amen- em-Ope and the Book of Proverbs , CUA Diss. 1939; Metcalfe, Origen the Teacher... , London 1907; Prestige, God in Patristic Thought ;

Reynolds, Church History - Council of Nicaea and St. Athanasius ; Robertson, St. Athanasius on the Incarnation , London 1891; Sox, The Gospel of Barnabas ; Squire, Asking the Fathers ; Stevenson, A New Eusebius - Documents Illustrative of the

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