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Faglige interesser

Min primære faglige interesse er skriftlig praksis og bruken av det koptiske språket i tekster fra det tidlige islamske Egypt. Jeg har hovedsakelig fokusert på juridiske og administrative dokumenter, men mitt aktuelle arbeid med APOCRYPHA-prosjektet handler om apokryfe tekster fra 4. til 13. århundre. Spesielt studerer jeg transkripsjonen, overføringen og mottakelsen av apokryfene i det skiftende sosialkulturelle miljøet i senantikken og den islamske perioden.

Bakgrunn

I perioden fra 2016 til 2020 var jeg høyskolelærer og midlertidig lektor for det koptiske kurset ved Macquarie University, Sydney. Fra 2016 til 2018 underviste jeg i koptisk ved Macquarie Ancient Language School (MALS).

Utdanning

2016-2019: Ph.D. i Antikkens Historie, Macquarie University, Sydney
2014-2015: MRes i Antikkens Historie, Macquarie University
2013: Grad. Cert. of Arts i Egyptologi, Macquarie University
2012-2013: Dip. i Antikke Språk, Macquarie University
2007-2009: Bachelor i Kommunikasjon i Journalistikk, Western Sydney University, Sydney

Forskingsnettverk:

2013-2016: Rundle Foundation for Egyptian Archaeology, en del av Australian Centre for Egyptology.
2016-2019: Society for the Study of Early Christianity (SSEC).
2017-2019: Australian Linguistic Society (ALS).
2018-2019: Australian Society of Classical Studies (ASCS).

Emneord: Religionshistorie, Kristen apokryf litteratur, Koptisk kristendom, Manuskriptstudier, Papyrologi, Koptisk

Cook, Samuel Peter (2025). Social Network Analysis and the Dating of Coptic Manuscripts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius. Vigiliae christianae (Print). ISSN 0042-6032. 79(3), s. 271–310. doi: 10.1163/15700720-bja10105. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
The present article focuses on the potential of Social Network Analysis (SNA) to assist in dating undated Coptic manuscripts from a monastic context. Focusing on one individual – Papa Mena of the Great Cell, a monk and lector from the Monastery of Saint Macarius in Lower Egypt – I examine the social networks in which he participated in order to estimate the dates of the manuscripts in which he appears. The results of this analysis have further implications for our understanding of manuscript production and donation in Islamic Egypt, as well as demonstrating the usefulness of SNA in the study of early Christian manuscripts.
Cook, Samuel Peter (2022). Omit this - it was False: Editing, Erasure, and Multiple Authors in Ps.-Chrysostom's On Michael A. Journal of Coptic Studies. ISSN 1016-5584. 24, s. 9–34. doi: 10.2143/JCS.24.0.3290752. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
This article examines a particular instance of erasure in MACA.AF, a text version of Ps.-Chrysostom’s On Michael A deriving from the Monastery of Saint Macarius. This particular erasure is accompanied by a marginal note stating that the removed passage was ‘false’ (ⲙⲉⲑⲛⲟⲩϫ). This raises questions about why the content was erased, who was involved in the erasure, and what this can tell us about manuscript production and textual fluidity in Coptic literature from a monastic context.

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Lundhaug, Hugo; Cook, Samuel Peter; Sarrazin, Roxanne Bélanger; Toft, Lasse Løvlund; Abercrombie, Lloyd Gregory & Graz, Florian [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2026). APOCRYPHA database. doi: 10.18710/5IY5BL. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
Database tables and documentation of the APOCRYPHA database, a database of Coptic apocryphal literature, their manuscripts and contents, developed under the aegis of the European Research Council (ERC)-funded project APOCRYPHA (Storyworlds in Transition: Coptic Apocrypha in Changing Contexts in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods) at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Theology, under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 865971).