Thursday, September 29, 2011

Byzantine Music (Site by Basil Crow)

An excellent site about Byzantine music (with a section on Byzantine music in Arabic) with comprehensive resources for study, including sound samples, pedagogical materials, and scores:
http://music.basilcrow.com/

Coptic Sounds: A Resource for the Study of Coptic Phonology

A wonderful blog with many journal articles and discussions concerning modern scholarship into the authentic pronunciation of the Coptic language:
http://copticsounds.wordpress.com/

Coptic Church Review (Websites Old and New)

Original website for the journal of Coptic Studies, with archive of issues and biography of Dr. Rudolph M. Yanney:
http://www.copticchurchreview.com/

New website published by the Archdeacon Habib Guirguis Educational Fund:
http://copticreview.org

Coptic Books (BYU Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts)

Coptic books and books about Coptic in the BYU CPART collection:
http://cpart.byu.edu/?page=104&sidebar

Coptica (Site by Pierre Cherix)

Coptic texts, documents, links, and resources in French (and some English):
http://coptica.ch/

IXOYC.NET

Hundreds of books about the Church Fathers in digital format:
http://ixoyc.net/fathers2.aspx

Lexilogos Coptic Dictionary

Coptic lexicons, dictionaries, language resources, and literature:
http://www.lexilogos.com/english/coptic_dictionary.htm

A Prayer

"All-caring Lord, place your holy fear before my eyes as a shield, that they may no longer gaze with lust; before my ears, that they may not enjoy hearing words of evil; before my mouth, that it may utter no falsehood; before my heart, that it may think of no evil; before my hands, that they may do no injustice; before my feet, that they may not walk on the paths of iniquity. But so direct their movements, that they may, at all times, be according to your commandments in all things. Amen."

From the eNewsletter of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church in America