Digital Edition and Translation of the Coptic-Sahidic Old Testament

Participants in the 13th International Congress of Coptic Studies, Göttingen, 27 July-1 August 2026.
Photo credit: Naoko Wolze.

In this blog post, you can read about the closing ceremony of the 13th International Congress of Coptic Studies, held yesterday in Göttingen. Among other things, you will find out the venue of the next congress, scheduled for 2030, and the newly elected Board of the International Association for Coptic Studies.

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On the opening of the 13th International Congress of Coptic Studies. Link in the first comment.

To all participants in the 13th International Congress of Coptic Studies (Göttingen, 27 July–1 August):

If you are planning to visit the manuscript exhibition "Entangled Communities: Global Egypt and Its Multilingual Manuscript Heritage," please note the information below.

Exhibition Visit

The exhibition "Entangled Communities: Global Egypt and Its Multilingual Manuscript Heritage" will be open to congress participants and the general public from 27 to 31 July, daily between 14:00 and 17:00, at the Göttingen State and University Library.

As Wednesday, 29 July, is the congress's panel-free day, we expect many participants to take the opportunity to visit the exhibition that afternoon. To help ensure a pleasant experience for everyone and to avoid overcrowding, we kindly ask those planning to visit on Wednesday to follow the suggested time slots below:

Surnames A–E: 14:30–15:15
Surnames F–O: 15:15–16:00
Surnames P–Z: 16:00–17:00

These time slots are intended solely to facilitate a smoother flow of visitors on Wednesday afternoon. Since the exhibition will remain open every afternoon from 27 to 31 July (14:00–17:00), participants are warmly invited to visit on any of those days if that is more convenient.

Lina Elhage-Mensching & Alin Suciu

Over at our Coptic Old Testament blog, Alin Suciu has written a short post about a recent article he published in Novum Testamentum. Link in the first comment.

Job opening: postdoctoral researcher in Coptic Christianity, Institut für Christentumsgeschichte, University of Vienna. Link in the first comment.

In her latest contribution on our blog, Diliana Atanassova introduces Jan-Malte Ziegenbein’s recently published monograph Die koptischen Miniaturkodizes aus spätantiker Zeit (Coptic Miniature Codices from Late Antiquity). The book offers the first comprehensive study of one of the most fascinating yet understudied categories of Coptic manuscripts: miniature codices. These small-format manuscripts open unique perspectives on reading practices, book production, and the transmission of texts in Late Antique Egypt. Link in the first comment.

The Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection in Berlin is currently seeking a curator specializing in Egyptology.

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Colleagues in Egyptology and Coptology may be interested in a newly advertised two-year position at the Seminar für Ägyptologie und Koptologie in Göttingen.

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