BMCR review of Fournet, The rise of Coptic

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: The rise of Coptic: Egyptian versus Greek in late antiquity.

Jean-Luc Fournet, The rise of Coptic: Egyptian versus Greek in late antiquity. The Rostovtzeff lectures. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 224 p. ISBN9780691198347 $45.00.

Review by
Matthew Westermayer, Cornell University. mrw288@cornell.edu

... This study is sorely needed for Coptic studies, which many have bemoaned as lacking even the most rudimentary achievements of contemporary Greek, Latin, and Syriac papyrology and linguistics. ...

For another review, see here. Cross-file under Coptic Watch.

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