Basics of Sahidic Coptic by A. Josiah Chappell is a one-semester introductory textbook. The grammar provides students with essential tools to learn Sahidic Coptic and to get into translation quickly.
A. Josiah Chappell (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles) is a research associate of the St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society in Los Angeles and has taught biblical literature, ancient languages, and ancient near eastern history and religion at UCLA and Azusa Pacific University. In addition to the biblical languages and those of the earliest translations, his primary interests are in the literature and history of the Second Temple period, early Christianity, and rabbinic Judaism.
