SSCN Voumes 1-10, 1994-2004

St. Shenouda Coptic Newsletter

Vatican manuscript and the surviving fragments of the Sahidic version with an excellent introduction. Rev. Dr. Tim Vivian of Bakersfield, California, and Deacon Severus (Maged) S. A. Mikhail, a member of the Center's staff, are the contributors to this volume. The price for a single copy is $5.00. Discounts will be available to distributors for quantity purchases of 25, 50, and 100 copies. Members of the Society will be given a 20% discount. Also available, D. N. Bell's The Life of Shenoute by Besa , this is the only published English translation of the Coptic Life of St. Shenouda the Archimandrite. The price for members is $9 and for non-members $11.00. 8. Bulletin of the Society (Back Issues): The sixth and final volume of the Annual Bulletin of the Society is in print. It included seven selected papers from the proceedings of the Second Coptic Conference and the Second Coptic Symposium on Monasticism, held at UCLA in 1999, and 2000, respectively. The volume was dedicated to the memory of Prof. Paul van Moorsel of Leiden. Copies of this volume are available to non-members for $5.00 each. Copies of earlier volumes are also available for volumes 2, 3, 4, and 5 at $4 for members and $5 for non-members. Deacon Severus (Maged) S. A. Mikhail was the editor of this volume. 9. Coptica: The second issue of Coptica was released and excellent response was received from the members. It was a volume of 220 pages, including ten selected articles from the 3 rd St. Shenouda Conference of 2001 plus four other contributions by scholars from four different countries. Copies have been sent to all dues-paying members of the Society and those of St. Mark Foundation as well as Coptica subscribers. For non-members (or Newsletter subscribers) this volume will be available for $10 plus shipping and handling. The second issue will publish the papers presented at the Wadi al-Natrun's Symposium, Feb. 2002. It will include papers from, Dr. K-H Brune, Germany, Dr. P. Grossmann, Greece, Dr. J. den Heijer, The Netherlands, Dr. M. Immerzeel, The Netherlands, Prof. Dr. M. Krause, Germany, Dr. Eva Parandowska, Poland, Prof. Dr. R. Said, USA, Dr. Z. Skalova, The Netherlands, Rev. Dr. T. Vivian, USA, Dr. J. van der Vliet, The Netherlands, Fr. Dr. U. Zanetti, Belgium, Dr. Y. N. Youssef, Australia E-mail contact is: coptica@stshenouda.com.

10. The Society on The Internet: We are still at the same address, "http://www.stshenouda.com". Our traffic has increased to approximately 50,000 hits per month on the average. Information about the new MiniConferences and the annual conference will be posted on the site. The Coptic Lessons Section will be revised soon to add limited pronunciation sounds. The Society has also reserved the internet address: http://www.stshenouda.org . We expect it to be in production by July of this year. It will be hosted directly from our Coptic Center in Los Angeles via a DSL high-speed line. This new site will include a listing of all the collections housed at the Center: Microfilms, Scanned images, books, off-prints, as well as our new Coptic Textile collection. 11. Digitizing of Coptic Microfilms Project: The Society is in the process of placing a short list of the description of all these digitized manuscripts on our website. 12. St. Mark Foundation for Coptic History: Dr. Fawzy Estafanous of Cleveland, Ohio is continuing the colossal effort of directing this new foundation for the detailed study of Coptic History (Church and people). In the past period, both of our organizations as well as the Patriarchate in Cairo have made a gift to the New Alexandria Library in the form of 16 CDs of digitized manuscripts from the electronic collection of the Society. The formal presentation was graciously made on February 23, 2003 by H. H. Pope Shenouda III. Dr. Estafanous is also preparing a comprehensive proposal for funding the purchase, cataloging, and digitizing of more of the manuscripts related to the Coptic Heritage in European Libraries. The Society will be responsible for the actual procurement, cataloging, and digitizing of such material. Digitized copies will be given as a gift to the Library of Alexandria in the name of the above organizations as well as others contributing to the funding of this project.

St. Shenouda Coptic Newsletter The Foundation has obtained a preliminary approval from the Patriarchate as well as the Fayoum Diocese for organizing the second symposium, dealing with the Christian monuments of the Fayoum Oasis, South of Cairo. This is scheduled for early February of 2004. Dr. Gawdat Gabra is coordinating the scholarly issues pertaining to this symposium.

Both of our organization will be working together with the Patriarchate in organizing the 2006 Symposium at the St. Shenouda Monastery, as well as

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