So one of the purposes of this website will be to provide information and updates on projects that I have in progress. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s already available and what’s in the works!
Basics of Sahidic Coptic (Zondervan Academic, 2025) has been recently published (available both in print and digital platforms), with accompanying video lectures also available.
In addition to the book and lectures, Zondervan Academic has a TextbookPlus+ webpage for Basics of Sahidic Coptic, where I’ve posted additional online resources:
- an answer key to the translation exercises,
- verb paradigms in color (making it easier to see the diagnostic components),
- additional reading selections: Exodus 5.22–6.13; Psalms 36(37), 39(40), 45(46), 89(90), 116(117), and 120(121); Revelation 1.1–3.22
I’m currently working on a greatly expanded version of the lexicon found in Basics of Sahidic Coptic. The book’s lexicon covers all the vocabulary found in the grammar’s chapters plus everything else found in the reading selections (including the extra ones on the TextbookPlus+ page). Ultimately, the expanded lexicon will be (very nearly) exhaustive for Sahidic vocabulary, including Crum’s entries and a healthy dose of words borrowed from Greek. I plan to post a draft version of this expanded lexicon online on this site—with the ultimate plan being to also get it into inexpensive print form once polished.
I’d also like to produce some comparative material for Bohairic and the other first millennium dialects (Fayyumic, Oxyrhynchite, Lycopolitan, and Akhmimic). I’m thinking I’ll try to formulate this material into charts with six columns, including Sahidic for comparison. Paradigms, conjugations, vocabulary arranged similarly to the categories and patterns in Basics of Sahidic Coptic. I’ll post this material periodically on this site as well (and perhaps also in print form once it’s all compiled).
Besides all things Coptic, I also have another major project that I’ve been working on over the last few years: Hebrew Bible Journals—a multivolume presentation of the Hebrew/Aramaic biblical text of the Tanakh/Hebrew Bible. I’m very excited to continue work on this important project aimed at helping students and readers dig directly into the original text of the Hebrew Bible. Much more about this coming soon!
Stay tuned, and thanks for stopping by!