SSCN Voumes 1-10, 1994-2004

& ST. SHENOUDA COPTIC NEWSLETTER

SUBSCRIBER'S EDITION Quarterly Newsletter Published by the St. Shenouda Center for Coptic Studies

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January, 2003

Volume 9(N.S. 6), No. 2

In This Issue: The Fifth St. Shenouda Coptic Conference (1) ........................................................... 1 An Overview of the Christology of Apa Shenoute ..................................................... 2 Al Fihrist of ibn al-Nadim and Coptic Christianity in the Tenth Century .............. 9 The Third St. Shenouda Coptic MiniConference ...................................................... 13 Book Reviews ................................................................................................................. 15 News ................................................................................................................................ 16 The Fifth St. Shenouda Conference of Coptic Studies (July 25-26, 2003 - Los Angeles California) (1) (by Hany N. Takla)

Deacon Severus (Maged) S. Mikhail (SSACS) Nardine Saad (CCC-UCLA)

Introduction: This year the Society is planning the continuation of its annual two-day general conference on Coptic Studies. The conference is designed to further promote and encourage Coptic Studies among Copts and others in the United States. Time and Location: This year the event is tentatively scheduled for Friday and Saturday July 25-26. The specific time schedule will be announced later. The place is also tentatively set at UCLA Royce Hall Room 314.

Dr. Saad Michael Saad (SSACS) Monica Soliman (CCC-UCLA) Monee A. Takla (CCC-UCLA) Hany N. Takla (SSACS)

Participants: The list of participants will be announced on the website as it becomes available. Format: Presentations are classified into three types. The first is plenary papers, which are customarily surveys of research done over a specific period of time 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 done or is doing in the field. These presentations will be structured in a 20-minute format with a 10- minute follow-up discussion. The maximum time allotted to these presentations, including the discussion, will be 30 minutes. The third type is

St. Shenouda Coptic Newsletter Organizing Committee: This conference is a cooperative effort of the Collegiate Coptic Orthodox Christian Club of University of California, Los Angeles (CCC-UCLA),

Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures of UCLA (DMELC-UCLA), and other members of the Society (SSACS). The following individuals have been designated as members of the Organizing Committee: Dr. Nabil Elgabalawi (SSACS) Joseph Fahim (SSACS)

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