Edited and translated: Arsenius Mikhail
Arsenius Mikhail is Professor of Liturgical Studies at St. Athanasius and St. Cyril Theological School in Los Angeles. He is the author of The Presentation of the Lamb: The Prothesis and Preparatory Rites of the Coptic Liturgy.
By (author) Abū al-Barakāt ibn Kabar
Abū al-Barakāt ibn Kabar (d. 1324) was a Coptic priest and theologian and the author of The Lamp of Darkness and the Elucidation of the Service (Mișbâḥ al-ẓulmah wa-îḍāḥ al-khidmah).
By (author) Yūḥannā ibn Sabbā‘
Yūḥannā ibn Sabbā‘ (13-14th centuries) was the compiler of the Coptic theological encyclopedia The Precious Jewel on the Ecclesiastical Sciences
(al-Jawharah al-nafīsah fī ‘ulūm al-kanīsah).
By (author) Gabriel V of Alexandria