Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939.Thomas Oden Lambdin (Octo– May 8, 2020) was a leading scholar of the Semitic and Egyptian languages. Foy Scalf, Head of Research Archives, Oriental Institute Online course materials will include discussion forums, supplemental videos, additional readings, links to online content, bibliography, and supplementary material to help engage the students in the study of Coptic language, history, and culture. The weekly onsite session will be recorded and uploaded for next day viewing through the online course. Local students will have the opportunity to attend the onsite course (and have access to all the online materials) while non-local students can take the course entirely online. This course is a hybrid course and will have simultaneous online and onsite sections. By the end of the course, students will have completed a full introductory course in Sahidic Coptic that prepares them to independently read Coptic literature.
Students should be aware that this is a college level course that will go far beyond the basics and will require the frequent use of grammatical terminology. No knowledge of earlier phases of Egyptian or Greek is required however, any such knowledge will be helpful and will allow for a deeper engagement with the material. Students should plan to spend at least 8-10 hours per week studying vocabulary, grammar, and preparing the exercises. We will focus on grammatical analysis, discussion of exercises, and readings from literary texts, including: the Coptic bible (Old and New Testaments), the Sayings of the Fathers, the Gospel of Thomas, the martyrdoms of famous saints, and many others.ĭue to our limited meeting time, preparation outside of the classroom is essential. During each three-hour on-site session, we will cover two short lessons from the grammar book. AD 200-1100, equivalent to one full semester in a university program. This course will provide a complete introduction to the fundamentals of the Sahidic dialect of Coptic, the phase of the ancient Egyptian language written with the Greek alphabet and in use from ca. On-site: January 11 - April 26, 2018, Thursday, 6:00-9:00 pm at the Oriental Institute Room 210
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