From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There have been many Coptic versions of the Bible, including some of the earliest translations into any language. Several different versions were made in the ancient world with different editions of the New Testament in all four of the four major dialects of Coptic. Partial copies of a number of Coptic Bibles survive. A considerable number of apocryphal texts also survive in Coptic, most notably the Gnostic Nag Hammadi library. Coptic remains the liturgical language of the Coptic Church and Coptic editions of the Bible are central to that faith.
[edit] References
