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The Rise of Coptic - Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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The Rise of Coptic - Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
Series: The Rostovtzeff Lectures
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Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the
third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt.
By the time of the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641, Coptic had almost
achieved official status, but only after an unusually prolonged
period of stagnation. Jean-Luc Fournet traces this complex history,
showing how the rise of Coptic took place amid profound cultural,
religious, and political changes in late antiquity. For some three
hundred years after its introduction into the written culture of
Egypt, Coptic was limited to biblical translation and private and
monastic correspondence, while Greek retained its monopoly on
administrative, legal, and literary writing. This changed during
the sixth century, when Coptic began to penetrate domains that were
once closed to it, such as literature, liturgy, regulated
transactions between individuals, and communications between the
state and its subjects. Fournet examines the reasons for Coptic's
late development as a competing language-which was unlike what
happened with other vernacular languages in Near Eastern
Greek-speaking societies-and explains why Coptic eventually
succeeded in being recognized with Greek as an official language.
Incisively written and rich with insights, The Rise of Coptic draws
on a wealth of archival evidence to shed new light on the role of
monasticism in the growing use of Coptic before the Arab conquest.
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