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The author of the Alexander Romance ( which is now known to us partly in Greek , Coptic , Syriac and Armenian , and most voluminously in Ethiopic ) represents him as the ideal of a knight and later as a kind of missionary of the gospel ...
The author of the Alexander Romance ( which is now known to us partly in Greek , Coptic , Syriac and Armenian , and most voluminously in Ethiopic ) represents him as the ideal of a knight and later as a kind of missionary of the gospel ...
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Dioscorus was indeed a Copt writing in Greek . If his father's name was Apollos , his grandfather's was Psimanobet , and he was the lay administrator of an important Coptic monastery . We have evidence of the manner in which he worked ...
Dioscorus was indeed a Copt writing in Greek . If his father's name was Apollos , his grandfather's was Psimanobet , and he was the lay administrator of an important Coptic monastery . We have evidence of the manner in which he worked ...
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As we go on from the eighth to the eleventh century , the Greek of the tombstones becomes more and more corrupt . It is curious that some of the best specimens are found in Nubia ( i.e. above the first cataract ) where there must have ...
As we go on from the eighth to the eleventh century , the Greek of the tombstones becomes more and more corrupt . It is curious that some of the best specimens are found in Nubia ( i.e. above the first cataract ) where there must have ...
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