As Contained In The Coptic, Sahidic, And Bashmuric Dialects.
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Author: Henry Tattam
Publisher: Williams & Norgate
Date: 1863
Language: Coptic - English
Pages: 164
DDC: 490
ISBN: 9781436625739
Format: PDF
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Egyptian Literature has of late years attracted particular attention. All that has come down to us of the Language and Literature of ancient Egypt is contained in the Coptic, Sahidic, and Bashmuric Dialects; and in the Enchorial, Hieratic, and Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, and Manuscripts. The importance of the Ancient Egyptian Language to the Antiquary, will at once appear, when we consider that the knowledge of it is necessary before the inscriptions on the Monuments of Egypt can be properly understood, and the Enchorial and Hieratic Manuscripts can be fully deciphered. Nor is it of less importance to the Biblical Student, The Egyptian Versions are supposed to have been made about the second century; and if they were not the first, they certainly were among the most early Translations of the Scriptures into the Languages of the East: and perhaps the Egyptian New Testament is of equal or even of greater authority than any of the ancient Versions.
* This is one of the oldest books in English about Coptic Grammar, It gives a good idea about the Coptic Language as spoken by Copts in the 19th Century.
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