Lina Elhage-Mensching M.A.

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Digital Edition and Critical Evaluation of the Coptic Holy Week Lectionary
Friedländer Weg 11
37085 Göttingen

Tel. +49 (0551) 39-37018

E-mail: lina.elhage-mensching@adwgoe.de

Current position: Research associate


ACADEMIC EDUCATION 

  • 2016 – 2018: Egyptology and Coptic Studies/Religious Studies in Göttingen
  • 2013 – 2018: Ancient Cultures in Göttingen
  • 1974 – 1978: Architecture in Beirut, Lebanon and Nancy, France

SCIENTIFIC DEGREES

  • 2018: M.A. in Egyptology and Coptic Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, with distinction
  • 2016: B.A. in Ancient Cultures, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, with distinction
  • 1978: Certificat d’études architecturales, Ecole d’architecture de Nancy

PROFESSIONAL CAREER AFTER COMPLETING DEGREE

  • since 2022: Research associate, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • 2016 – 2018: Research assistant, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Member of the Society of Oriental Liturgy (SOL)
  • Member of the International Association for Coptic Studies (IACS)
  • Member of the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC)
  • since 1990: Translator and Conference Interpreter (French, English, Greek, Arabic)
  • 1992 – 1996: Teacher of translation techniques, Centre d’études francophones C.F.E.S, Thessaloniki, Greece

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • together with D. Atanassova (forthcoming). ‘The Anaphora of Saint James in a Sahidic Euchologion of the late 10th century’, in: Stefanos Alexopoulos, Harald Buchinger, Daniel Galadza (eds), The Liturgy of St James. Origines – Contexts – Reception in East and West, Münster.
  • (forthcoming). ‘“A great rock that twenty men could not push away”: an interesting marginal note in an Arabic Holy Week lectionary of the 14th century’, in: Journal of Coptic Studies 28.
  • (forthcoming). ‘The Owner Family of a Sahidic–Arabic Holy Week lectionary: Arabic and Bohairic marginalia in the 14th century codex sa 16L’, in: Proceedings of the 12th International Congress for Coptic Studies, Brussels, 11–16 July 2022.
  • together with D. Atanassova. 2025. ‘The Digital Edition and Critical Evaluation of the Coptic Holy Week Lectionary. Outline of a New Project in Coptic Studies’. In ΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΛΑΤΡΕΙΑ. Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of the Society of Oriental Liturgy, Thessaloniki, Greece, 13–18 June 2022, edited by Chrysostom Nassis, Arsenius Mikhail, and Daniel Galadza, Studies in Eastern Christian Liturgies 6, Münster, 139–56.
  • 2024. 'Eusebian Tituli Psalmorum in the Coptic Psalter Codex sa 2033'. In Editing the Greek Psalter, edited by Felix Albrecht and Reinhard Gregor Kratz, De Septuaginta Investigationes 18, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 511–21.
  • together with D. Atanassova. 2023. ‘Die sahidischen Euchologia des Weißen Klosters – eine kodikologische Bilanz’. In Pharaonen, Mönche und Gelehrte. Auf dem Pilgerweg durch 5000 Jahre ägyptische Geschichte über drei Kontinente. Heike Behlmer zum 65. Geburtstag, unter Mitarbeit von Theresa Kohl, edited by Diliana Atanassova, Frank Feder, and Heike Sternberg-el Hotabi, Texte und Studien zur Koptischen Bibel 4, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 61–78.
  • “The Herrnhuter Brethren in Search of Ethiopian Christianity: A Letter to Abuna Johannes III of Abyssinia (1756).” In: Tamcke, Martin/Paulau, Stanislau (eds), Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity in a Global Context: Entanglements and Disconnections. Leiden 2022, 122–141.
  • “Interaction between the Protestant Herrnhut Brethren and Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt in the Eighteenth Century.” In: The Theological Review of the Near East School of Theology 42 (2021), 121–136.
  • “The Praises in the Psalmody for the Month of Kiahk attributed to Pope Mark. Partial edition of Ms. Cairo, CM 292.” In: Schlarb, Egbert (ed.), Den Orient erforschen, mit Orthodoxen leben. Festschrift für Martin Tamcke zum Ende seiner aktiven Dienstzeit. Wiesbaden 2021, 165–177.
  • “Elements of the Maronite Christian Tradition in the Works of Gibran Khalil Gibran.” In: Tamcke, Martin/Schlarb, Egbert (eds), Überleben, Pilgern, Begegnen im orientalischen Christentum, Festschrift für Wolfgang Hage zum 85. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden 2020, 221–236.
  • Pope Mark VII. Arabic Letters to Count von Zinzendorf and Yohannes III, Metropolitan of Abyssinia, with the ‘Sermon on the True Faith’ in an Appendix, Baden-Baden 2020.
  • “The Arabic Pen Trial in the Sahidic Holy Week Lectionary of the Bodleian Library.” In: Journal of Coptic Studies 22 (2020), 69–93.