Literature, Coptic

• Main Author: Orlandi, Tito
• Other Authors: Atiya, Aziz Suryal, 1898-1988 (editor-in-chief)
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Macmillan 1991
• Subjects: Coptic literature; Literature; Coptic language; Copyists; Council of Chalcedon (451); Gnosticism; Gnostic literature; Anthony; of Egypt; Saint; ca. 250-355 or 6; Athanasius; Patriarch of Alexandria; d. 373.; Nag Hammadi library; Pachomius; Shenute; ca. 348-466; Origen; Greek language; Severus; of Antioch; ca. 465-538; John Chrysostom; d. 407; Apophthegmata Patrum; Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha texts; Besa; Fulcrum; Grim; Luke; Martyrs; Moses; Saint-Paul; Sakha; Tamma
• Online Access: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cce,1213

(CE:1450b-1460a) LITERATURE, COPTIC. National literatures are defined not only by the language in which they are written but also by ethnic and cultural affinities that bind their authors. That is why we may distinguish an American literature in English from British literature or a Latin-American li...