Volume V

Perspectives.............................................5

THE ALEXANDRIAN PAPACY
The Saintly Life of Pope Kyrillos VI.....................7
His Holiness Pope Shenouda III

THE COPTIC ENCYCLOPAEDIA................................12
Aziz s. Attiya, Editor in Chief

PILLARS OF COPTIC ORTHODOXY
Saint Cyril of Alexandria...............................13
Fayek M. Ishak

STUDY IN HISTORICAL SOURCES 
The Jewish Community of First-Century Alexandria
and Christian Origins in Egypt..........................23
Birger A. Pearson

DOCTRINAL THEOLOGY
Distinct Characteristics of Cyrillian
Orthodoxy Theology......................................35
Editor

MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHY
Cyrillian Dogma and Spirituality........................39
F.M.I.

EGYPTO-GNOSTIC PHILOSOPHY
From the Hieroglyphs to the Cross:
Egyptian Philosophy and Christian Gnosis................43
Rachad Mounir Shoucri

MANUSCRIPTS
Microfilming Coptic and Arabic Manuscripts
in Egypt................................................63
S. Kent Brown

LITERATURE
The Deaconess(2)........................................69
Rodolph Yanney

A RARE BOOK
Les Actes des Martyres de l'Èglise Copte:
Etude Critique..........................................75
Emile Clement Amélineau

HYMNODY
The Modern Coptic Tarnimah, Farahanin, Farahanin
(We Are Joyful, We Are Joyful)..........................77
Marian Robertson

REVIEW ARTICLES
James Wellard, Desert Pilgrimage........................85
F.M.I.

Otto F.A. Meinardus, The Copts in Jerusalem.............90
Boulos A. Ayad

BOOK REVIEW
John D. Cooney, Late Egyptian and Coptic Art............95
B.A.A.

CONTRIBUTORS............................................97

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR...................................99