Search for dissertations about: "Coptic"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word Coptic.

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

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

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

  4. 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

    Author : Johann E. Erbes; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : 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;

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

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

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

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Church of Yimrhane Kristos : An Archaeological Investigation

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

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE