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Basics of Sahidic Coptic

A Complete Grammar with Exercises, Readings, and Lexicon

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    304 pages

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    24 February 2026

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Summary

Basics of Sahidic Coptic by A. Josiah Chappell is a one-semester introductory textbook. The grammar provides students with essential tools to learn Sahidic Coptic and to get into translation quickly. Sahidic Coptic is the most documented dialect of the Coptic language. Its many extant texts from the first millennium are directly pertinent for textual issues related to the study of both the Old and New Testaments.

The grammar includes twenty-eight accessible chapters, most fol…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780310160304
ISBN-10:0310160308
Author:A. Josiah Chappell
Publisher:Zondervan
Imprint:Zondervan Academic
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:24 February 2026
Weight:725g
Dimensions:14mm x 216mm x 278mm
Series:Zondervan Language Basics Series
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About The Author

A. Josiah Chappell

A. Josiah Chappell (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles) is a research associate of the St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society in Los Angeles and has taught biblical literature, ancient languages, and ancient near eastern history and religion at UCLA and Azusa Pacific University. In addition to the biblical languages and those of the earliest translations, his primary interests are in the literature and history of the Second Temple period, early Christianity, and rabbinic Judaism.

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