Table of Contents: Editor's note Stephen J. Davis: Life and Death in Lower and Upper Egypt: A Brief Survey of Recent Monastic Archaeology at Yale Jacques van der Vliet: Pesynthios of Coptos / Qift (ca. 568-632) and the Rise of the Egyptian Miaphysite Church Timothy Pettipiece: Towards a Manichaean Reading of the Nag Hammadi Codices Theodore S. de Bruyn: Greek Amulets from Egypt Invoking Mary as Expressions of "Lived Religion" Sabrina Higgins: Divine Mothers: The Influence of Isis on the Virgin Mary in Egyptian Lactans-Iconography Bishoy Dawood: The Coptic Calendar: A History of Revisions...

The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is published annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies by Lockwood Press. The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is a Toronto-based nonprofit organization whose purpose is to bring together individuals interested in Coptic studies and to promote the dissemination of scholarly information on Coptic Studies through the organization of meetings and conferences and through the preparation of scholarly works for publication.

The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is published annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies. The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is a Toronto-based nonprofit organization whose purpose is to bring together individuals interested in Coptic studies and to promote the dissemination of scholarly information on Coptic Studies through the organization of meetings and conferences and through the preparation of scholarly works and publication.