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The Christian Epigraphy of Egypt and Nubia (Hardcover)
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The Christian Epigraphy of Egypt and Nubia (Hardcover)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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Collected Studies CS1070 The present book collects 31 articles that
Jacques van der Vliet, a leading scholar in the field of Coptic
Studies (Leiden University / Radboud University, Nijmegen), has
published since 1999 on Christian inscriptions from Egypt and
Nubia. These inscriptions are dated between the third/fourth and
the fourteenth centuries, and are often written in Coptic and/or
Greek, once in Latin, and sometimes (partly) in Arabic, Syriac or
Old Nubian. They include inscriptions on tomb stones, walls of
religious buildings, tools, vessels, furniture, amulets and even
texts on luxury garments. Whereas earlier scholars in the field of
Coptic Studies often focused on either Coptic or Greek, Van der
Vliet argues that inscriptions in different languages that appear
in the same space or on the same kind of objects should be examined
together. In addition, he aims to combine the information from
documentary texts, archaeological remains and inscriptions, in
order to reconstruct the economic, social and religious life of
monastic or civil communities. He practiced this methodology in his
studies on the Fayum, Wadi al-Natrun, Sohag, Western Thebes and the
region of Aswan and Northern Nubia, which are all included in this
book.
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