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This volume is the first in a new series of editions of Coptic-language "magical" manuscripts from Egypt, written on papyrus, ostraca, parchment, and paper, and dating to between the fourth and twelfth centuries CE. Their texts attest to non-institutional rituals intended to bring about changes in the lives of those who used them - heal disease, curse enemies, bring about love or hatred, or see into the future. These manuscripts represent rich sources of information on daily life and lived religion of Egypt in the last centuries of Roman rule and the first centuries after the Arab conquest, giving us glimpses of the hopes and fears of people of this time, their conflicts and problems, and their vision of the human and superhuman worlds. This volume presents 37 new editions and descriptions of manuscripts, focusing on formularies or "handbooks", those texts containing instructions for the performance of rituals. Each of these is accompanied by a history of its acquisition, a material description, and presented with facing text and translations, tracings of accompanying images, and explanatory notes to aid in understanding the text

"The History of the 'Slave of Christ' : From Jewish Child to Christian Martyr offers the first critical editions and English translations of the two Syriac recensions of this fascinating text, which narrates the story of a young Jewish child, Asher, who after converting to Christianity and taking the name ʻAbda da-Miḥa ('slave of Christ') is martyred by his father Levi in a scene reminiscent of Abraham's offering of Isaac in Genesis 22. In a detailed introduction, the authors argue that the text is a fictional story composed during the early Islamic period (ca. 650-850) probably in Shigar (modern Sinjār). Building upon methodology from the study of Western Christian and Jewish texts, they further contend that the story's author constructs an imagined Jew based on the Hebrew Bible, thereby challenging the way that previous scholars have used this text as straightforward evidence for historical interactions between Jews and Christians in Babylonia at this time. This ultimately allows the authors to reevaluate the purpose of the text and to situate it in its Late Antique Babylonian context"--

La Commission Constitutionnelle a ete creee par le decret presidentiel No. 100/039 du 21 mars 1991. En son article 2, la Commission a pour mandat: "(1) d'analyser toute la problematique de la democratisation et de produire un rapport a transmettre au President de la Republique; (2) d'organiser le debat national sur la democratisation des institutions et de la vie politique; (3) d'elaborer enfin le projet de la Constitution de la Republique du Burundi et d'en assurer l'explication avant son adoption". La presente note resume les principales regles contenues dans les dispositions du projet de la Commission. (DÜI-Hff)

La Commission Constitutionnelle a ete creee par le decret presidentiel No. 100/039 du 21 mars 1991. En son article 2, la Commission a pour mandat: "(1) d'analyser toute la problematique de la democratisation et de produire un rapport a transmettre au President de la Republique; (2) d'organiser le debat national sur la democratisation des institutions et de la vie politique; (3) d'elaborer enfin le projet de la Constitution de la Republique du Burundi et d'en assurer l'explication avant son adoption". En execution du deuxieme volet de son mandat, la Commission a organise et anime le debat national sur son rapport du 30 septembre au 23 novembre et du 13 au 21 decembre 1991. (DÜI-Hff)