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Definition of Coptic. The Coptic Language is the name used to refer to the last stage of the written Egyptian language. Coptic should more correctly be used to refer to the script rather than the language itself. Even though this script was introduced as far back as the 2nd century BC., it is usually applied to the writing of the Egyptian ...
Apr 9, 2017 · A gun attack that killed at least 26 Coptic Christians on a bus in Egypt is just the latest assault on the religious minority group, which has been a target for deadly violence throughout its...
Apr 20, 2008 · Prof. GRUBER: I was looking for the way that the Coptic monastery centralizes itself in the Coptic culture - the Coptic people, the Christian minority in Egypt are the people who first gave...
Abraham, the Patriarch of Three Faiths. Christianity and Islam share a reverence for Judaism's patriarch. By Eliezer Segal
- Eliezer Segal
Some Jews believe that Judaism and Christianity have so much in common that it is permissible to speak of a Jewish-Christian tradition. But there is the strongest opposition on the part of all Jews, Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform, to the attempts by Christian missionary groups to convert Jews to Christianity.
- Rabbi Louis Jacobs
Feb 23, 2018 · Coptic Christians were part of the Byzantine family of Christians until the universal Christian church split following the Council of Chalcedon (the Fourth Ecumenical Council) in AD 451. The council, based in Rome, ruled that Jesus was both fully human and fully divine, or of two complete natures.
Copts. Copts have a long history as a significant Christian minority in Egypt, in which Muslim adherents form the majority. Coptic Christians lost their majority status in Egypt after the 14th century and the spread of Islam in the entirety of North Africa. The question of Coptic identity was never raised before the rise of pan-Arabism under ...
