Sökning: "Coptic"

Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Coptic.

  1. 1. Rethinking the Gospel of Truth : A Study of its Eastern Valentinian Setting

    Författare :Jörgen Magnusson; Gabriella Gustafsson; Anders Hultgård; Birger Pearson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gospel of Truth; Nag Hammadi; Valentinianism; Gnostic; Gnosticism; early Christianity; Coptic; history of religions; text linguistics; late Antiquity; History of religion; Religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : Already in the second century, the Church Father Irenaeus warned against reading the Gospel of Truth that was used among the so-called Valentinians. For more than one and a half millennium GospTruth was lost until in the 1950s a Coptic text was discovered that could be a translation of that work both loved and hated. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Peshitta and the versions : A study of the Peshitta variants in Joshua 1-5 in relation to their equivalents in the ancient versions

    Författare :Johann E. Erbes; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Languages and linguistics; Old Testament; Book of Joshua; Hebrew; Masoretic Text; Peshitta; Syriac manuscripts; Syriac; Targum; Septuagint; Syro-Hexapla; Coptic; Ethiopic; Vulgate; textual criticism; translation technique; Språkvetenskap; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; semitiska språk; Semitic Languages;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation focuses on the relationship between the Peshitta readings and their equivalent readings in the ancient versions. The purpose of this study is to discover the possible influences of the Masoretic Text on the one hand, and the versions, especially the Septuagint, on the other. The material is too scarce to attempt creating a stemma. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Looking at the Future : Divination and Astrology in Ancient Egypt

    Författare :Andreas Winkler; Lana Troy; Kasia Szpakowska; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ancient Egypt; Graeco-Roman Egypt; Demotic; Coptic; divination; astrology; dream interpretation; calendar; pun; allegory; sages.; Egyptology; Egyptologi; Egyptology; Egyptologi;

    Sammanfattning : This study discusses divination in ancient Egypt, from the New Kingdom onwards in order to highlight the Egyptian elements in later astrological practices in Graeco-Roman Egypt. The first chapter treats divination and its study in general terms. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Житие Онуфрия Пустынника в рукописной традиции средневековой Руси

    Författare :Karine Åkerman Sarkisian; Ulla Birgegård; Vadim B Krys'ko; Lars Steensland; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Languages and linguistics; Slavic philology; Slavic hagiography; Slavis translation; textual criticism; editorial technique; Greek hagiography; Coptic hagiography; Språkvetenskap; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; Slavic Languages; Slaviska språk;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of manuscript material containing the Life of Onuphrius (Onuphrius vita). The purpose of the study is to investigate the history of the Onuphrius text in the Slavic hagiographic tradition and to publish a critical edition of the Slavic text.The Life of Onuphrius circulated widely throughout the entire Christian world. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Church of Yimrhane Kristos : An Archaeological Investigation

    Författare :Mengistu Gobezie Worku; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
    Nyckelord :Yimrhane Kristos; church archaeology; Lasta; Zagwe; radiocarbon dating; wood anatomy; archaeometry; cedar; plaster; pigment; Lalibela; Medieval Ethiopia;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to augment our understanding of the Church of Yimrhane Kristos, and the Lasta period in which it was built, from the study of a variety of source materials. Due to the fact that the Lasta period suffers from the absence of adequate and reliable literary sources, this study largely depends on the elements of historic buildings as the basic data source. LÄS MER