The Copts and the West 1439-1822: The European Discovery of the Egyptian Church. Oxford-Warburg Studies.
Author:   Alastair Hamilton (Arcadian Visiting Research Professor at the School of Advanced Study, London University, attached to the Warburg Institute; Fellow of the British Academy)
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Pages:   360
Publication Date:   27 July 2006
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In seventeenth-century Europe the Copts, or the Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria, were widely believed to hold the key to an ancient wisdom and an ancient theology. Their language was thought to lead to the deciphering of the hieroglyphs and their Church to retain traces of early Christian practices as well as early Egyptian customs. This book, the first full-length study of the subject, discusses the attempts of Catholic missionaries to force the Church of Alexandria into union with the Church of Rome and the slow accumulation of knowledge of Coptic beliefs, undertaken by Catholics and Protestants. It ends with a survey of the study of the Coptic language in the West and of the uses to which it was put by Biblical scholars, antiquarians, theologians and Egyptologists.

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Author:   Alastair Hamilton (Arcadian Visiting Research Professor at the School of Advanced Study, London University, attached to the Warburg Institute; Fellow of the British Academy)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
ISBN:  

9786611154646


ISBN 10:   6611154647
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   27 July 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

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