George William Horner
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George William Horner was a biblical scholar, editor of the text of the New Testament in dialects of Coptic language
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Bohairic version Horner edited in 4 volumes from 1898 to 1905, Sahidic version edited in 7 volumes from 1911 to 1924.
Another area of interest: liturgy Coptic and Ethiopic Church.
The text of the four Gospels, in Bohairic edition, was established on the basis of Huntington MS 17
; the Pauline epistles
, Catholic epistles and the Acts of the Apostles
on the basis of Oriental MS 424
, the Apocalypse – Curzon MS 128.
Coptic language
Coptic or Coptic Egyptian is the current stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the 1st century...
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Bohairic version Horner edited in 4 volumes from 1898 to 1905, Sahidic version edited in 7 volumes from 1911 to 1924.
Another area of interest: liturgy Coptic and Ethiopic Church.
The text of the four Gospels, in Bohairic edition, was established on the basis of Huntington MS 17
Huntington MS 17
Huntington 17, bilinguical Bohairic-Arabic, uncial manuscript of the New Testament, on a paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1174. It is the oldest manuscript with complete text of the four Gospels in Bohairic.- Description :...
; the Pauline epistles
Pauline epistles
The Pauline epistles, Epistles of Paul, or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen New Testament books which have the name Paul as the first word, hence claiming authorship by Paul the Apostle. Among these letters are some of the earliest extant Christian documents...
, Catholic epistles and the Acts of the Apostles
Acts of the Apostles
The Acts of the Apostles , usually referred to simply as Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament; Acts outlines the history of the Apostolic Age...
on the basis of Oriental MS 424
Oriental MS 424
Codex Oriental Ms. 424, designated by siglum A1 , t , is written in two languages Bohairic-Arabic, uncial manuscript of the New Testament, on paper...
, the Apocalypse – Curzon MS 128.
Works
- The Coptic version of the New Testament in the northern dialect (Oxford 1898)
- The Coptic Versions of the New Testament in the Southern Dialect, volume II, Oxford 1911
- The service for the consecration of a church and altar according to the Coptic rite; edited with translations from a Coptic and Arabic manuscript of A.D. 1307 for the Bishop of Salisbury (1902)
- The statutes of the apostles; or, Canones ecclesiastici; edited with translation and collation from Ethiopic and Arabic mss.; also a translation of the Sahidic and collation of the Bohairic versions; and Sahidic fragments (1904)
Further reading
- Works of Horner at the Internet Archive