Didascalia of the Apostles

Penance

PENANCE The book of The Shepherd by Hermas (written in Rome in the mid-second century) mentioned baptism as the unique way for the remission of sins. But for Christians who committed a great sin after baptism, there is the metanoia or penance. Tertullian in the beginning of the third century published the first treatise On …

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Apostolic Constitutions

Books / By Arsanious Adel

APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTIONS A vast canonical and liturgical work circulated in Christian antiquity under this name from the end of the fourth century, but without the name of the author. It is a reworking from several sources, composed by a Syrian. Books 1-6 have as their base the DIDASCALIA, which is here adapted to contemporary institutions, …

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Ibrahim Ibn Sulayman Al-Najjar Al-Miri

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

IBRAHIM IBN SULAYMAN AL-NAJJAR AL-MIRI An eighteenth-century copier of manuscripts. Ibrahm is mentioned nowhere, but certain elements of his life and literary activity can be reconstructed from the manuscripts he copied. These are now found in Cairo, at the Coptic Museum and the Coptic Patriarchate. His ethnic surname shows that he came from Mir, a …

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Abu Ishaq Ibn Fadlallah

Eminent / By Youssef Matta

ABU ISHAQ IBN FADLALLAH A tenth-century Coptic author and one of the first to write in Arabic. Abu Ishaq left two works, composed in the year A.M. 641/A.D. 924-925. This is earlier than the work of SAWIRUS IBN AL-MUQAFFA‘, Coptic bishop of al-Ashmunayn, who is generally considered the first Coptic author to write in Arabic. …

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