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Thank you Remnkemi for your always invaluable advice!
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Thanks to you both. I tried sending an email to Alin Suciu, but didn't get a reply; I'm sure he's very busy. I will keep trying though!
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@cyrilThank you Cyril. I have been in touch with Dr Hany, and it seems that what he was referring to was the prevalence of Greek over Arabic, not the prevalence of Greek over Coptic.
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Dear Remnkemi, Thank you very much for your observations. I have realised that liturgical studies on the Alexandrian rite are grossly neglected! For my period it is particularly difficult, because about the only source that seems to remain is Strasb…
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@remnkemiYes, my comment was designed precisely to corroborate your observations about Koine Greek. With reference to the conversion of Egypt, I did not intend to imply at all that it was either suddenly in the third century, or all at once. Such su…
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Maximos is certainly difficult to appreciate in all his subtlety, and many people devote their lives to the attempt. I can only say that after 30 years of studying Maximos I believe that Cyril would have been happy with his developments. After all, …
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Maximus Confessor resolved the theological problem of the unity of Christ's true humanity and true divinity, positing the perfect unity in love of Christ's divine and human wills. This laid the basis for both the sixth and seventh ecumenical council…
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Thanks @cyril,This surprises me, and I will follow it up!
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Dear @ophadeceMy comment arose from the first paragraph of the second point of Remnkimi's post of April 6, about how much we can know about Greek pronunciation in the past. Many Greek words, not just letters, were retained when the liturgy was trans…
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Thanks for that; it's good to know. I hope that someone will produce them in Unicode soon. I like CS Avva Shenouda, and I'm used to it now. Linguist's Software does a Coptic font and keyboard switcher in Unicode, but it costs $100. I have used thei…
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Hello everyone. I don't know the politics here, but I do know something about the relationship between Koine, Byzantine and Modern Greek pronunciation. I am a liturgist and scholar of Greek patristics (specializing in the Alexandrian fathers) of ov…
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Yes, CS Avva Shenouda must be in Unicode, because I use it in (Mac) Emails and it gets through to people. It is vey useful because it doesn't require a keyboard switcher.