SSCN Voumes 1-10, 1994-2004

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provides the flexibility of viewing such documents on both the IBM Personal Computers as well as the Apple Macintosh. The first is more popular in the homes while the second is more prevalent in academic circles. This format also allows for a text search of any string of characters, regardless of how the characters are viewed on the screen (i.e. search for Coptic words). System Requirements: The following are the minimum requirements needed to operate the contents of the CD: a. IBM PC : A 486-66 MHz with 16 MB RAM, a CD ROM Drive with Sound Card and Speakers, and a minimum of 10 MB of Hard Disk space for Program installation. However a Pentium is strongly recommend d. b. Macintosh : A Mac with 68020 (Macintosh II series) or greater processor (including all Power Macintosh computers); MacOS 7.0 or later; 3300 KB application RAM for 680x0-based Mac or Power Mac with Virtual Memory turned on; 5227 KB for Power Mac with Virtual Memory turned off; and 8 MB hard disk space, plus 4.4 MB additional temporary disk space available during installation The Future: This first production of the fruit of our labor of love will definitely continue with more innovative and informative resources in the following years. Resources that the Society has dedicated its efforts over the years to provide for those interested in Coptic Heritage. This will include the following items: a. The first edition of the extant texts of the Coptic Old Testament in all its major dialects. b. Editions of Coptic, with English translation, martyrologies and lives of the Saints such as those of St. Anoub (Abanoub), St. John Phanidjoit, St. Shenouda, St. John the Short, and many others.

This reading book contain 69 sets of readings that cover the entire Coptic year, except for the Sundays, the Great Fast (Lent), the Holy Week, and the Paschaltide (the 50-day period beginning with Resurrection Sunday to Pentacost Sunday. Each reading set contains nine distinct readings, three from the Psalms and six from New Testament selections. The readings are divided among the three parts of the service as follows: a. Vespers : a Psalm selection and Gospel reading b. Morning : Two readings like Vespers c. Liturgy : Lessons from the St Paul Epistles (Pauline), the Catholic Epistles (Katholikon), the Acts of the Epistle (Epraksis), and a Gospel lesson preceded by a Psalm selection Each day in the Coptic year, that does not fall on a Sunday or during one of the special events covered by other lectionaries, uses one of these 69 reading sets. The choice of reading is preset and is based on the commemoration that is celebrated during that particular day. The user will find a master listing of all the fixed commemorations in the Coptic calendar. A reading set is then selected by clicking on the gray box on the left side of the commemoration list for that day. This will open a file containing the ecclesiastical readings for that day in Coptic and English (in parallel). The Coptic Readings are in the Bohairic dialect, while the English one, are from the KJV. As for the Psalm selections, a new translation from the Bohairic is provided for the first time. This was due to its major differences with that of the translation included in the KJV. Technical Specifications: The contents of this CD were created in the Adobe Acrobat PDF format, using the Acrobat PDFWriter 3.0 print driver. The driver was configured with the Society-owned Antonious Coptic fonts, developed by Dr. Wisam Michael. Final arrangement and links, internal and external, were made using the IBM version of Adobe's Acrobat Exchange Program. This format

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