Arsany Paul

Research Interests

Alexandrian and Coptic Liturgy, Early Christian Liturgy, Late Antique and Medieval Eucharist, Liturgiology, Liturgical Theology, Canon Law, Copto-Arabic Manuscript Studies

Representative Publications

"Variable Celebrant Prayers in the Medieval Coptic Eucharist: A Bohairic Manuscripts-Based Inventory and Introduction," Eastern Theological Journal 12.1 (2026): 113–162.

"Women and Blood Impurities in Christian Egypt: Menstruation, Childbirth, and Liturgical Participation among Late Antique and Medieval Copts," Dumbarton Oaks Papers 79 (2025): 161–191.

“Approaching the Ecclesia in Medieval Coptic Cairo: Church Entrance Petitions from the Thirteenth-Century Copto-Arabic Manuscript Suryān Liturgy 383 (Folia 190r-194r).” Ecclesia Orans 39.1 (2022): 143–73.

“The Barcelona Papyrus and the Opening Dialogue of the Christian Anaphora. Resituating Egyptian Scribal Practices Amid Scholarly Anaphoral Reconstructions.” Ex Fonte – Journal of Ecumenical Studies in Liturgy 1 (2022): 129–68.

“Fast, Pre-Nativity,” Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia.

Dissertation

"The Coptic Eucharist in Practice:  Frequency, Access, and the Regulation of Communion in Premodern Egypt"

Directors: Gabriel Radle and Jeff Wickes