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Editor's note

Life and Death in Lower and Upper Egypt: A Brief Survey of Recent Monastic Archaeology at Yale, Stephen J. Davis

Pesynthios of Coptos / Qift (ca. 568-632) and the Rise of the Egyptian Miaphysite Church, Jacques van der Vliet

Towards a Manichaean Reading of the Nag Hammadi Codices, Timothy Pettipiece

Greek Amulets from Egypt Invoking Mary as Expressions of "Lived Religion", Theodore S. de Bruyn

Divine Mothers: The Influence of Isis on the Virgin Mary in Egyptian Lactans-Iconography, Sabrina Higgins

The Coptic Calendar: A History of Revisions, Bishoy Dawood

Icon of St. Mena, St. Mark's Coptic Museum: Akhmim Style? Helene Moussa

Coptic Monastic Initiation Rituals: To "Die" and Live in Christ, Joseph Youssef

About the Author

Ramez Boutros is a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Toronto.

Jitse Dijkstra is Associate Professor for Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa.

Helene Moussa is Volunteer Curator of St Mark’s Coptic Museum and Secretary of Canadian Society for Coptic Studies' Board of Directors

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