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Editor's Note Tonio Sebastian Richter "Whatever in the Coptic Language Is Not Greek, Can Wholly Be Considered Ancient Egyptian": Recent Approaches towards an Integrated View of the Egyptian-Coptic Lexicon Ariel Shisha-Halevy Reflections on the Historical Study of Egyptian Helmut Satzinger Dialectical Variation of the Egyptian-Coptic Language in the Course of Its Four Millennia of Attested History Wolf-Peter Funk Some Lesser Known Prospective and Causative Conjugation Forms in Coptic Dialects and the Problem of Their Ancestry Lincoln H. Blumell Some Unpublished Coptic Inscriptions in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Rachad Mounir Shoucri The Egyptian Roots of Egyptian Monasticism and Its Impact on Christian Monasticism