Lecture times and locations

There will be one two-hour lecture per week, on Tuesday from 10 am to 12 pm in W5C 310. The lectures will be recorded and sent out to distance students. They will also be provided as Echo recordings in digital form on the unit website.

Technology used and required

PC and Internet are required. Basic computer skills (e.g. Internet browsing) and skills in word processing are also a requirement. Please consult the Course Convenor for any further, more specific requirements.

Required and recommended resources

Texts for reading and Coursenotes

Photographs of the documents for reading will be distributed via iLearn. Please note that the copyright of all the photographs belong to Dr Victor Ghica. The usage of the photographs used during this semester is strictly limited to the purposes of this course. Any other use as well as the distribution of the photographs to persons which are not enrolled in this unit is illegal. Coursenotes to accompany the recorded lectures will be distributed on the Website each week.

Resources

Sahidic

For a review of Sahidic Coptic see the textbook for Coptic I and II (Sahidic): Thomas O. Lambdin, Introduction to Sahidic Coptic, Macon 1983, 2^nd edition 1992.

Bohairic

The standard grammar for Bohairic Coptic is Alexis Mallon, Grammaire copte: bibliographie, chrestomathie et vocabulaire, 4 éd. revue par Michel Malinine, Beyrouth 1956. Students with a reasonable command of German are encouraged to look at: Walter Till, Koptische Dialektgrammatik, mit Lesestücken und Wörterbuch, 2^nd ed. Munich 1961. For a comprehensive bibliography see below. A good introduction to Bohairic Coptic, which provides a didactical approach especially for those with little previous familiarity with formal English grammar, is Sameh Younan, So You Want To Learn Coptic (see http://www.learncoptic.com/ for information about ordering).

Dictionaries

A very good investment for AHPG899 Advanced Coptic (and AHPG898 Coptic Dialects) is a Coptic dictionary. Walter E. Crum, Coptic Dictionary, Oxford 1939 available in a reprint (see http://wipfandstock.com/store/A_Coptic_Dictionary). There are versions of the dictionary online at http://www.metalog.org/files/crum.html and http://www.tyndalearchive.com/TABS/Crum/, but I would strongly recommend anyone seriously interested in Coptic to buy a hard copy.

Crum only contains words of Egyptian origin. It needs to be supplemented by a Greek lexicon for the words of Greek origin. The most comprehensive is H. G. Liddell and R. Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon. New (Ninth) Edition Completed 1940, with a Supplement 1968, Oxford, Oxford Univer­sity Press 1976 (This is available online at the Perseus Project:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.04.0057

It may be necessary for you to look up words from the lists in Till, Koptische Dialektgrammatik in a German dictionary or of Mallon, Grammaire copte in a French one.

Two very good online German-English dictionaries are provided by the Technical University Munich and the Technical University Chemnitz. Try them!

·      http://dict.leo.org/

·      http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/

Good French-English dictionaries are provided by

·      http://www.wordreference.com/

·      http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Have a go at these ones, too. However good these word lists may be (and however good you may be at deciphering the French and German), there is almost no possibility to do advanced Coptic language units without a good dictionary. Please see above for information about Coptic dictionaries and their availability.

Resources on the Website

As well as weekly coursenotes, the unit website (see below) will make numerous additional resources available, among others:

·      How to Use Crum, Coptic Dictionary (Powerpoint)

·      How to Use Liddell-Scott, Greek-English Lexicon on the Perseus Project (Powerpoint)

·      Short Introduction to Bohairic Coptic

·      Learning Vocabulary of Bohairic Coptic

Website

The website (see the next section) will be

·      a privileged means of communication both for the students and the lecturers and among the students themselves. This is especially important for distance students.

·      a way to provide information and materials to students quickly and accessibly.

·      the tool for the submission and retrieval of assignments.

Unit webpage

Accessing the website

There are different ways in which to access the unit and the electronic resources it contains:

For an online guide to using the website, see: https://www.mq.edu.au/iLearn/resources/quick_guides.htm

For all login varieties you will need your Macquarie Student ID number and your myMQ student portal password (see https://my.mq.edu.au/).

·      Go to the Online Teaching Facility at http://learn.mq.edu.au

o   Login directly to the units accessible to you

Contents of the Website

Some of the tools provided on the website are:

·      A discussion tool, where all students enrolled in this unit can post questions to the group and participate in the compulsory online tutorial discussions. The conveners will check the discussion tool at least twice a week to post new materials, follow the threads of the discussion etc. Please remember to post questions as soon as they occur to you – do not put them all off until the last week before the essay is due!

·      An e-mail tool which will be used for one-to-one communication between students and lecturers. Please e-mail your questions via this mail tool rather than sending it to my usual office e-mail. This will make it easier to keep track of the mail which belongs to this particular unit only.

·      The iLecture tool from which you can listen to or download the audio recordings of the face-to-face teaching.

·      This study guide will also be provided on the website (under “Course Content”).

·      An assignments tool where you can submit your essay electronically.

Macquarie University Library

The website of the Macquarie University Library (http://www.lib.mq.edu.au) offers a wealth of information for all students and not only on the holdings of the library. Under the section “Useful links” (http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/readyref/) you will find Citation and Style Guides. In “Study and Research Tools” (http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/studyandresearchtools/) you will find suggestions how to go about researching, evaluating, and presenting the information for your assignment. For information specific to “Ancient History”, see http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/eguides/ancienthistory.html.

Students also have access to a vast selection of electronic journals and databases which the university subscribes to

Remote Access to Databases and Journals

To access databases and e-resources directly from an off-campus location, please go to the university library homepage (http://www.mq.edu.au/on_campus/library/). Under the section “How do I” you will find “IT Help”. Choose the link “Remote Access”, which will guide you to these resources.

Library Distance Education Service

·      Macquarie University Library provides numerous services for distance students, including online access to the Library’s Web catalogue and databases, reference assistance, IT help, online IT training, reciprocal borrowing and letters of introduction to other libraries.

Contact:

Library Distance Education Service

https://www.mq.edu.au/on_campus/library/borrowing/distance_education_students/

Macquarie University Library

NSW 2109

Australia

E-mail:           lib.libed@library.mq.edu.au

Phone:           +61 2 9850 7558

Fax:                 +61 2 9850 7504

Free Phone (within Australia):      1 800 632 743

The Library also provides Delivery Services to Distance Education students living outside the Sydney metropolitan area (this includes Macquarie University students residing overseas.) Please note that books and some other media will not be posted to addresses outside Australia.

Centre for Open Education (COE)

Centre for Open Education

www.coe.mq.edu.au

Macquarie University

NSW 2109

Australia

Phone:           +61 2 9850 7470

Fax:                 +61 2 9850 7480

The Centre for Open Education is the primary point of contact between distance students and the University. It organizes and distributes the various forms of teaching materials, the electronic registration of the receipt and return of distance education assignments. Guidance for students is provided through the Distance Education Student Handbook distributed to all students enrolled in distance education.

External students enrolled in this unit will receive this study guide and the audio registrations on CD through the COE (in addition to having the possibility to listen to the registrations on the web and download them). However, you will be submitting your assignments directly to your lecturer using the assignments tool on the unit website.

Extensions

Extensions on assessments are granted only in case of emergency. In case of a medical condition, a certificate will need to be presented. Please consult me immediately after an emergency arises in order to work out an alternative plan. The departmental penalty for assignment lateness is generally 2% a day (including weekends).

Completion of the unit

In order to complete the unit satisfactorily all assignments must be submitted and an overall mark of 50% or more is required.

Week 1 Literary text: In Apocalypsim 7-12 (P.Morg. 591, Par. 131/3, 131/7)

Week 2 Literary text: In Apocalypsim 7-12 (P.Morg. 591, Par. 131/3, 131/7)

Week 3 Literary text: In Apocalypsim 7-12 (P.Morg. 591, Par. 131/3, 131/7)

Week 4 Literary text: In Apocalypsim 7-12 (P.Morg. 591, Par. 131/3, 131/7)

Week 5 Literary text: In Apocalypsim 7-12 (P.Morg. 591, Par. 131/3, 131/7)

Week 6 Literary text: In Apocalypsim 7-12 (P.Morg. 591, Par. 131/3, 131/7)

Week 7 Literary text: The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles 7-12 (NHC VI,1)

Week 8 Literary text: The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles 7-12 (NHC VI,1)

Week 9 Literary text: The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles 7-12 (NHC VI,1)

Week 10 Documentary text: O.BawitIFAO 1

Week 11 Documentary text: O.BawitIFAO 49 and O.Nancy

Week 12 Documentary texts: P.Camb. UL Michael. 1120 and BKU III 367

Week 13 Documentary texts: commemorative inscriptions and graffiti from Kellia and al-Bağawāt necropolis (Kharga Oasis)