The Rise of Coptic
The Rise of Coptic Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt. Jean-Luc Fournet traces this complex history,…
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The Rise of Coptic
Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt. Jean-Luc Fournet traces this complex history, showing how the rise of Coptic took place amid profound cultural, religious, and political changes in late antiquity.For some three hundred years after its introduction into the written culture of Egypt, Coptic was limited to biblical translation and private and monastic correspondence, while Greek retained its monopoly on administrative, legal, and literary writing. By the time of the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641, Coptic had almost achieved official status, but only after an unusually prolonged period of stagnation.
This changed during the sixth century, when Coptic began to penetrate domains that were once closed to it, such as literature, liturgy, regulated transactions between individuals, and
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