Otto Meinardus, a leading authority on the Coptic Church, wrote a new book called ’Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity’. The present work is a compact hardback publication which, according to the cover, is "a new, definite, one-volume history for the Millennium, surveying the twenty centuries of existence of one of the oldest churches in the world." Jill Kamil is highly critical of chapter two of the book and calls Meinardus biased and prejudiced.