The Coptic script is an alphabetic script created from the first century , and is characterized by a written change of the Greek alphabet .
The term comes from the Greek form Coptic kupitio , which means Egyptian.
In the centuries before Christ, the Greek culture sought to aggregate knowledge of diverse peoples and thus sought to translate documents in various regions into Greek in order to learn and seek the wisdom , called Sofia .
Thus formed the great library of Alexandria , which composed of several books related to various cultures of the known world . A group of these researchers collected the knowledge of Egyptian culture . Egyptian culture had a system of highly Gnostic concepts , which generated a great interest in a group of Greeks . Due to the great concept about divinalização sunset, the concept of light , created the foundation of the lighting on the mystical concepts .
With the advent of Christianity , the people connected to the concept mystical Egyptian , sought to develop a way of writing that could be considered mystical , this is the Coptic writing. The Gnostic concept generated by modification of Egyptian culture , thoughts and lines formed groups . Them derive the secret societies . How iluminat . The Coptic version linked to form mystical concepts of Christianity spawned the mystical groups that were opposed by the disciples of Christ , following the Protestant biblical books .
The Coptic groups have generated many books Gnostic plea that found in library Nag Hammadi , and several ancient fragments . These concepts formed the lines of thought , Masonic , spiritualist , mormon, catholic and orthodox church, among others .
So when we came across an old Coptic inscription, we are almost certainly working with a Gnostic text . One of these fragments is currently discussed fragment referring to Jesus married a woman .
We consider the mystical Coptic writings, and those linked to Christianity as Christianity based on the concept of Egyptian cosmology.
Compared with the new testament protestant, have Christianity based on the concept of Hebrew cosmology.
So many groups split from the new testament based on Egyptian concepts , and another group based in the Hebrew concepts .
Spiritualism is based acceptance of the Egyptians concepts that favor the existence of disembodied spirits . While the Hebrew defines that man does not generate spirit out of the body .
In short archaeological bases are more grounded in the Hebrew Bibles resulting bond, than the Egyptian connection.
Systems of mystical ideology are often linked directly or indirectly to Coptic writings , or documents related to the older Egyptian mysticism. Such ideologies are disseminated by Coptic writings , managing the idea of the immortality of the soul , the duality of being, the idea of magical worlds , and mysteries mixing the mystical world with the natural world .
On average an ancient Coptic document related to the earliest centuries , has a worldview sequenced almost always an action is created by the imagination of the one who observes a story .
How much of the ancient Coptic documents do not have proper archaeological basis, such documents are disregarded . Both the common Christian religions, as in use for understanding historical facts .