Coptic Studies from Egypt to Los Angeles is a Festschrift in honor of Hany N. Takla and presents a collection of essays–many of which contain unpublished archival material–showcasing historical and liturgical aspects pertaining to Coptic Christianity. The volume brings together the work of senior and emerging scholars and covers six themes that mirror the broad range of multifaceted fields characterizing Takla’s scholarly interests. Simultaneously, the themes also register close alignment with primary centers of ongoing research, including Coptic-Arabic Manuscripts, Coptic Art and History, Coptic Bible, Coptic Culture, Coptic Liturgy and Shenoute and Monasticism.

Author Biography

Lisa Agaiby is Academic Dean and Senior Lecturer in Coptic Studies at St. Athanasius College, University of Divinity Australia. Her most recent publication is the edited volume First in the Desert: St. Paul the Hermit in Text and Tradition (Brill, 2024).

Lillian I. Larsen is Crawford Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Redlands in Southern California. Her ongoing exploration of education in emergent Christian monasticism is captured in numerous publications, including a co-edited volume Monastic Education in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 2018).

Arsenius Mikhail is Professor of Liturgy at St. Athanasius & St. Cyril Theological School. He has published monographs and articles on Coptic Liturgy including Guides to the Eucharist in Medieval Egypt (Fordham, 2022) and Analecta Hymnica Coptica (Peeters, 2023).

Tamara L. Siuda, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University in California, is an Egyptologist and Coptologist working on the transmission and preservation of Coptic culture through martyrological narratives. She is an Associate Managing Editor of the Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia.

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