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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1977 - 7/31/1977

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)

A Grammar of the Classical Sahidic Dialect of Coptic

FAIN: FT-13352-77

Bentley R. Layton
Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)

To complete the research and writing of a grammar of the classical dialect of Coptic, the Egyptian language of the early Christian period, which will enable scholars to translate documents important to any understanding of the place of Christianity, gnostic religion, and Manichaeism in the ancient world.