Everything about Coptic Literature totally explained
Coptic literature is the body of writings in the
Coptic language of
Egypt, the last stage of the indigenous
Egyptian language. It comprises mostly Christian texts dating after the 2nd century AD, but also includes Old Coptic writings that predate the Christian era.
There have been only a few attempts to comprehensively present Coptic literature
Religious literature
The writings of
Anthony the Great,
Pachomius and
Shenouda the Archimandrite are among the earliest examples of Egyptian Christian literature in
Coptic. Shenouda was a popular religious leader who made extensive use of his native Coptic tongue instead of Greek as was the custom during his time. This led to an increase in the use of Coptic and its standardization as a literary language. Most Coptic literature was written in the
Sahidic dialect until about the 11th century AD.
The earliest original writings in
Coptic language were the letters by St.
Anthony of Egypt, first of the “Desert Fathers.” During the 3rd and 4th centuries many ecclesiastics and monks wrote in Coptic. The first
Pope of Alexandria to write in both
Coptic and Greek was Pope
Athanasius .
The Morgan Collection
The Morgan Collection comprises 58 volumes discovered in 1910 in the library of the Monastery of St. Michael in the
Faiyum. The local library collection consists of some 5000 volumes, a few fragments of which were acquired by the
Egyptian Museum in
Cairo.
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