Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies, Volumes 3-4

Ramez Boutros is a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Toronto. Jitse Dijkstra is Associate Professor for Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. Helene Moussa is Volunteer Curator of St Mark’s Coptic Museum and Secretary of Canadian Society for Coptic Studies' Board of Directors

• Editor's note Life and Death in Lower and Upper Egypt: A Brief Survey of Recent Monastic Archaeology at Yale, Stephen J. Davis Pesynthios of Coptos / Qift (ca. 568-632) and the Rise of the Egyptian Miaphysite Church, Jacques van der Vliet Towards a Manichaean Reading of the Nag Hammadi Codices, Timothy Pettipiece Greek Amulets from Egypt Invoking Mary as Expressions of "Lived Religion", Theodore S. de Bruyn Divine Mothers: The Influence of Isis on the Virgin Mary in Egyptian Lactans-Iconography, Sabrina Higgins The Coptic Calendar: A History of Revisions, Bishoy Dawood Icon of St. Mena, St. Mark's Coptic Museum: Akhmim Style? Helene Moussa Coptic Monastic Initiation Rituals: To "Die" and Live in Christ, Joseph Youssef