Studies in Coptic Culture

Mariam Ayad is an associate professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, and has previously taught at the University of Memphis. She has worked in the field at Wadi al-Natrun, Giza, Mendes, and Medinat Habu. She is the author of God's Wife, God's Servant and the editor of Coptic Culture: Past, Present, and Future.

• List of Figures List of Tables Contributors Foreword Introduction 1. The Coptic Acts of EphesusRichard Price 2. The role of Coptic translators in the transmission of Patristic Biblical Comment in the First Millennium CE Carol Downer 3. Talking About Medicine in Early Islamic Egypt:Toward a Socio-Historical Approach to the Corpus of Coptic Medical TextsTonio Sebastian Richter 4. Wine Production in Medieval Egypt: The Case of the Coptic ChurchMennat-Allah El Dorry5. The Encomium on Bishop Pesynthios: An Evaluation of the Biographical Data in the Arabic versionRenate Dekker 6. The Depiction of Muslims in the Miracles of Anba Barsauma al-‘UryanAsuka Tsuji 7. A fourteenth-century Icon of St. Mark and Miniatures from a Gospel Book: The Assimilation of Byzantine Art by the Coptic Élite in early Mamluk EgyptLucy-Anne Hunt 8. Coptic Icons: Expressions of Social Agency and Coptic Identity? (Part 2)Helene Moussa9. Rehabilitating a Late Antique Mural Painting at the Red Monastery, SohagMichael Jones 10. Transmission of Coptic Music from the Past to the FutureMagdalena Kuhn 11. Representations of Copts in Early Nineteenth Century Italian Travel AccountsDaniele Salvoldi 12. Copts in Modern Egyptian LiteratureLaila Farid