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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mike111: [QB] Doesn't anybody on the forum bother to give it some thought, rather than post the first thing that comes to their mind?? And another thing, sourcing a video or a book without quoting from it is really bad form. What, is everybody supposed to just run out to buy the book, or watch the video? What part Egyptian and Sumerian, and even Zoroastrianism religion played in the development of the Hebrew religion is another issue entirely. Here we are discussing is the genesis of what is called the Coptic religion in Egypt. And even that is a misnomer. Copt is a post 7th. century Arab word for Egyptians. By the time of Christ, Egypt had been a Greek country for over three hundred years. (As a point of reference, America has been a White country for about the same time). And before that, it had been a Persian or Berber (Libyan) country for almost as long. Point being that authentic Egyptian had been long lost. That which we call Copt, was simply an acceptance of reality for Egyptians (both real and imagined). They had to learn how to write their language in the script of their rulers. And for the Greeks, it was a way to bring everyone into the fold. The Egyptian language began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the first century. The new writing system became the Coptic script, an adapted Greek alphabet with the addition of six to seven signs from the demotic script to represent Egyptian sounds the Greek language did not have. But though Coptic IS Egyptian, the genesis of the Egyptian Christian religion does not appear to be. Under late Roman rule, Diocletian persecuted many Egyptian (Greeks and everyone not Roman), converts to the new Christian faith. This forced new converts to flee to the Egyptian deserts. In time, the growth of these communities generated the need to write Christian Greek instructions in the Egyptian language. The early Fathers of the Egyptian Church, such as Anthony the Great, Pachomius, Macarius and Athanasius, (these guys sound Greek to me), who otherwise usually wrote in Greek, addressed some of their works to the Egyptian monks in Egyptian. The Egyptian language, now written in the Coptic alphabet, flourished in the second and third centuries. However, it was not until Shenouda the Archimandrite that Coptic became a fully standardized literary language based on the Sahidic dialect. Shenouda's native Egyptian tongue and knowledge of Greek and rhetoric gave him the necessary tools to elevate Coptic, in content and style, to a literary height nearly equal to the position of the Egyptian language in pre-Christian Egypt. BTW - The Mysteries of Osiris is a book series by Frenchman Christian Jacq. These books are typically classed as historical fiction; many of them delve into the supernatural powers given to the Pharaoh, however, and could be considered fantasy by loose definition. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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