Word: coptic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Racing against the day when the Aswan Dam will submerge a 250-mile section of the Nile Valley, University of Chicago archaeologists recently unearthed a major manuscript discovery. Dug from the ruins of a 10th century Christian monastery on the Egyptian-Sudanese border, their find is an ancient Coptic prayer book containing a hymn to the Cross recited by Jesus before the Crucifixion and a hitherto unrecorded conversation between Christ and his disciples after the Resurrection...
...Treason. Many appointments reflected Paul's special churchly concerns-most notably, union with Orthodoxy. Heading the list of new cardinals were three leaders of Oriental-rite churches that form a bridge between Rome and the East. Stephanos I Sidarouss is Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria. Lebanon's Paul Peter Meouchi is leader of the Maronite Christians. Maximos IV Saigh, Melchite Patriarch of Antioch, is a bearded churchly rebel who spoke French instead of Latin at the Vatican Council and three times previously refused a red hat on the grounds that "for a Patriarch to accept a cardinalate is treason...
...Garvey, the Jamaican Negro who paraded through Harlem under a banner with a black star in the 1920s calling for a return to Africa, scores of outfits exist. There are Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslims and Malcolm X's offshoot Organization of Afro-American Unity, the Ethiopia Coptic Orthodox Mission and the House of Common Sense and Home of Proper Propaganda, which displays a sign advertising the book The God Damn White Man. All told, they probably have no more than 5,000 members...
Thomas O. Lambdin, assistant professor of Semitic Languages, who will become associate professor of Semitic Philology. His command of South Semitic and Hamitic languages, including Egyptian and Coptic, will complete the University's coverage of Near Eastern tongues...
...time, it raised other problems. They found voice among the Middle Eastern patriarchs of Eastern Rite Catholicism, whose hierarchies are at best weak minorities maintaining delicate balance between antagonistic Jews and Moslems. "If we take the matter up, we shall have to face the music," warned Stephanos I Sidarouss, Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria (and neighbor of Nasser...