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St. Shenouda Coptic Newsletter

year's members and subscribers. It included 11 papers from the proceedings of the first Coptic Conference held at Long Beach in 1998. Copies of this volume are available to non-member for $5.00 each. Copies for sale are still available for volumes 2 through 4. For non-members, the price will be $4.00, $5.00, and $5.00 respectively. For members needing extra copies, the prices are $3.00, $4.00, and $4.00 respectively. The Society is planning to publish one final volume, the sixth in this series, before we shift to our collaborative effort with St. Mark Foundation to publish the New Series of Coptologia in 2002. This last volume would include a select number of papers from the 1999 Coptic Conference and the 2000 Coptic Symposium. Deacon Severus (Maged) S. A. Mikhail has agreed to be the editor of this volume before he is completely deluged in his new assignment of Managing Editor of the Coptologia. 12. Coptologia: It was reported in the last issue of the Newsletter about the tentative appointment of the new Managing Editor and an Editorial Board for the New Series of Coptologia. Prof. Ishak had initially offered Coptologia, a couple of years ago, to be the official bulletin of St. Mark Foundation. An action that received the approval of H.H. Pope Shenouda III. The Society was subsequently invited by St. Mark Foundation to combine the efforts of both organizations to further the cause of Coptic Scholarship and continue the honored tradition of Coptologia, founded by Prof. Fayek Ishak. The theme however of the New Series would reflect the goals of the participating Societies which would appeal to both Scholars and educated people, Copts and non-Copts. Upon further conversations with Prof. Ishak, Deacon Severus (Maged) S. A. Mikhail was approved by all involved as the new managing editor of the New Series. The Editorial Board, originally proposed by Dr. Gawdat Gabra, was expanded from 8 to 10 members. and they are: Mme. D. Benazeth (France), Fr. Athanasius Farag (USA), Dr. G. Gabra (Egypt), Dr. K. Innemee (the Netherlands), Fr. Shenouda Maher (USA), Prof. O. Meinardus (Germany), Dr. S. Richter (Germany), H. N. Takla (USA), Rev. Dr. T. Vivian (USA), and Dr. Y. N. Youssef (Australia). The inaugural edition is set for the spring of 2002. The Managing Editor is currently preparing new confirmation letters to members of the Editorial Board and letters inviting literary contribution to be sent to perspective authors.

13. The Society on The Internet: We are still at the same address, "http://www.stshenouda.com". A page, describing the Coptic CD vol. 1, which include a downloadable demo is available. Pages, containing discussion of research on Coptic Liturgical services and an associated bibliography are available in the Coptic Liturgy Section of the Manual of Coptic Studies. Other pages planned include outlines, manuscript lists, Conference sites, and other bibliographies. The Coptic Language Section seems to be the most frequently visited part of the site. A new version of the Lessons in frame design, and the alphabet are now available for the later versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. They can be displayed if the IBM Antonious Coptic fonts are installed. The new version will allow students to do their homework online and submit it to us for correction via e-mail. We are planning a PDF version of these lessons in the near future to allow MAC users to use these lessons without the interactive feature of the IBM version. So far the site traffic has averaged a total of over 30,000 hits per month during the last quarter. Over the past year, the site has regularly been accessed by users in all the States in the US as well as over 100 other countries in six continents! 14. St. Mark Foundation for Coptic History: Dr. Fawzy Estafanous of Cleveland, Ohio is continuing the colossal effort of organizing this new foundation for the detailed study of Coptic History (Church and people). During the last period, the foundation's Cairo Office has been working on the organization of the upcoming historical Wadi 'N Natroun Symposium in late January to early February 2002. The work on the CD version of the Coptic Encyclopedia is progressing (see #18). The latest literary accomplishment of the Foundation is detailed in #7 above. Work is progressing on the cataloging of the manuscripts, kept at the Papal residence in Wadi' N. Natroun. The collection has never been cataloged before. Dr. Gawdat Gabra is coordinating this project. Prof. Fayek Ishak of Toronto Canada, has published a commemorative volume of COPTOLOGIA vol 16, the last one before the reorganization that is detailed in #12 above. Society Members should have received their copy in the mail already. Comments, suggestions, and lifetime membership information can be directed to the following address: Dr. F. G. Estafanous

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