Author: lazarus abboud
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The Coptic Language and the Egyptian Colloquial (a research paper submitted for the Diploma in the Arabic Christian Heritage)
This research paper “The Coptic Language and the Egyptian Colloquial” discusses the nature of the linguistic and historical intermingling between the Coptic language (the last stage of the ancient Egyptian language) and the Egyptian colloquial Arabic. The paper focuses on several main axes to prove the presence of Coptic in the tongue of Egyptians today,…
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The Shared Heritage of the Egyptians (A Research Paper Submitted for the Diploma in Arab Christian Heritage)
Keywords: shared heritage, Egyptian identity, Coptic art, Islamic art, customs and traditions, the Coptic language, popular culture, Copts and Muslims, Egyptian history. This paper discusses This research paper “The Shared Heritage of the Egyptians” discusses the concept of cultural and historical unity between Egyptians, Christians and Muslims, and shows that the Coptic and Islamic heritage…
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Qusta ibn Luqa of Baalbek (a research paper presented for the Diploma in Arab Christian Heritage)
Keywords: Basmala, supplication, healing, destiny, shared. 1. Introduction: This research aims to understand the relationship between Christians and Muslims by identifying the three pillars that we can extract from the Epistle of Qusta ibn Luqa, and their continuation popularly and intellectually to this day. The model of the Epistle of Qusta ibn Luqa shows us,…
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Job in the Poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab (A Research Paper Submitted for the Diploma in Arab Christian Heritage)
Keywords: Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, the Book of Job, modern Arabic poetry, free verse, poetic symbol, intertextuality, patience, thanksgiving, human suffering, comparative literature. Introduction. Badr Shakir al-Sayyab was able to transfer the historical Job from the past and embody him in the present by transferring the story of Job to his own personal story, not only…
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The Rich Man and the Commandment
And the Gospel of the judgment takes us to understand that the commandment does not save us. For Jesus did not reward those who did not kill, did not steal, and did not commit adultery, nor did He say to the righteous: “Come into My Father’s kingdom, because you did not kill and did not…
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The Illusion of the Inevitability of the Oppressed One’s Victory 2 (The Model of Christ)
In the preceding article we said that the justice of a cause is not a sufficient condition for its victory, for without correct language and tools the truth turns into an elegy, and victimhood turns into an eternal defeat. In the midst of our discussion of how to defend causes, we must look at Christ…