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Table of Contents: Editor's note Stephen J. Davis: Life and Death in Lower and Upper Egypt: A Brief Survey of Recent Monastic Archaeology at Yale Jacques van der Vliet: Pesynthios of Coptos / Qift (ca. 568-632) and the Rise of the Egyptian Miaphysite Church Timothy Pettipiece: Towards a Manichaean Reading of the Nag Hammadi Codices Theodore S. de Bruyn: Greek Amulets from Egypt Invoking Mary as Expressions of "Lived Religion" Sabrina Higgins: Divine Mothers: The Influence of Isis on the Virgin Mary in Egyptian Lactans-Iconography Bishoy Dawood: The Coptic Calendar: A History of Revisions Helene Moussa: Icon of St. Mena, St. Mark's Coptic Museum: Akhmim Style? Joseph Youssef: Coptic Monastic Initiation Rituals: To "Die" and Live in Christ.