Thompson – A Coptic Palimpsest containing Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Judith and Esther in the Sahidic Dialect (1911)

Source: OCR (tools/batch_ocr.py, model coptic+eng) of Coptic Texts/Old Testament/Josh Judg Ruth Judith Esther.pdf; page files: L0/ocr/Coptic_Texts_Old_Testament/Josh_Judg_Ruth_Judith_Esther/pages

Attribution: Thompson – A Coptic Palimpsest containing Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Judith and Esther in the Sahidic Dialect (1911); public domain in Canada (death year verified: Thompson d.1944 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Thompson_(Egyptologist))); OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.

Licence: public domain in Canada (author died ≤ 1971, verified; LICENCES.md §7) — US position (recorded, does not gate the class; PD-CA 2026-09-26): PD-US (published ≤1930)

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

Jurisdiction note: this text is public domain under Canadian law (the project is published from Canada; LICENCES.md §7: author died in or before 1971). It may still be in copyright elsewhere — in countries with a life + 70 term, or where a later edition claims its own rights. The licence line above says what was verified. If you are outside Canada, check your own law before re-using it.

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