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International Association for Coptic Studies
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International Association of Papyrologists
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Association pour l’étude de la littérature apocryphe chrétienne (AELAC)
Faculté de théologie et de sciences religieuses, Université Laval
Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (IFAO)
Sources Chrétiennes
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Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
Orientalia Christiana Periodica
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Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia
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Author Archives: Alin Suciu
More Coptic Manuscripts at Gallica
At Gallica you can find now more digitized Coptic manuscripts from the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. All of them are Sahidic fragments from the Monastery of Apa Shenoute (i.e. White Monastery): BnF Copte 102 Miscellanea BnF Copte 129(11) New Testament. … Continue reading
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Tagged Announcements, Bibliothèque nationale de France, digitized manuscripts, Paris, White Monastery
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Guest Post: Anthony Alcock – The Mysteries of the Greek Alphabet (Part 3)
Part 3 of Anthony Alcock’s translation of the Mysteries of the Greek Alphabet. Part 1, Part 2.
“I am the King, I am the Son of the King”. Psalm 71:1 (LXX) in the Apocryphon Berolinense/Argentoratense (aka Unbekanntes Berliner Evangelium), Coptic Literature and Patristics (Paper Delivered in Honour of Peter Nagel)
On April 26-27 I participated in a symposium organized on the occasion of Peter Nagel’s 75th anniversary. The symposium took place at the Coptic monastery of St. Mary and St. Mauritius in Höxter-Brenkhausen (near Göttingen). There I had the opportunity … Continue reading
2013 AELAC Meeting (Dole, June 29-July 1)
The annual meeting of the Association pour l’étude de la littérature apocryphe chrétienne (AELAC) will take place June 29-July 1 in Dole, France. Although there is nothing Coptic this year, several papers sound very interesting. Here is the complete list: … Continue reading
Guest Post: Mark Sheridan, O.S.B. – The Homilies of Rufus of Shotep
Rufus was bishop of Shotep, known in Greek as Hypsele, a town located about seven kilomenters southeast of Assiut (Lycopolis) in Upper Egypt, in the last part of the sixth century. References to Rufus apart from the manuscripts containing his … Continue reading
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Tagged Coptic literature, Guest Post, Mark Sheridan, Origen, Pope Damianus, Rufus of Shotep, White Monastery
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Photographs of White Monastery Fragments on Gallica Website
It was a nice surprise to discover a few days ago that the National Library in Paris put up on the Gallica website photographs of some of the Sahidic parchment fragments in their possession. More precisely, they have uploaded until … Continue reading
The Martyrdom of Macrobius in Gǝʿǝz (and Arabic)
Reblogged from hmmlorientalia: Yesterday Alin Suciu posted a notice of a Bohairic Coptic leaf with some lines from the martyrdom of Macrobius that was recently found in a Syriac manuscript from Saint Mark’s Monastery in Jerusalem. He also mentioned the … Continue reading
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Guest Post: Anthony Alcock – The Mysteries of the Greek Alphabet (Part 2)
Part 1 After I had sent Part One of this text to Alin Suciu, who graciously puts my little texts on his blog, he was kind enough to send me a copy of Cordula Bandt’s book and all the Bodleian … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Alcock, Bodleian Library, Guest Post, Mysteries of the Greek Alphabet, Oxford, paper manuscripts
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A Coptic Bohairic Leaf Recovered from a Syriac Manuscript: A New Textual Witness of the Martyrdom of Macrobius
A couple of weeks ago, Adam McCollum (Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Minnesota) sent me the photograph of the recto of a paper leaf written in the Bohairic dialect of Coptic. The fragment was used as an endpaper in a … Continue reading
Guest Post: Anthony Alcock – The Mysteries of the Greek Alphabet
Note A.S.: This is the first part of Dr. Anthony Alcock’s translation of an intriguing text, the Mysteries of the Greek Alphabet. This text is preserved in a single Copto-Arabic paper manuscript in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Here is a … Continue reading
Guest Post: Anthony Alcock – Triadon. English version of a 14th cent. religious poem written in Coptic and Arabic (Part 2)
Here is the 2nd part of Dr. Alcock’s translation of the Triadon. 1st part here. PDF version of the document HERE. The following is a translation stanzas 460 to 732, with the omission of stanzas 535 to 582,1, which … Continue reading
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Articles available to download. A. Suciu, “A Coptic Fragment from the History of Joseph the Carpenter in the Collection of Duke University Library,” Harvard Theological Review 106:1 (2013) 93-104 (PDF) The History of Joseph the Carpenter (BHO 532–533; CANT 60; … Continue reading
Deutschsprachiger Koptologenverband / Deutscher Orientalistentag 2013
I have received this message from Dr. Stephen Emmel. Please share. Sehr geehrte Kolleginnen und Kollegen, während des Koptologenkongresses in Rom im September letzten Jahres haben sich einige von uns getroffen, um den Vorschlag von Theofried Baumeister, Alessandro Bausi und … Continue reading
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Tagged Announcements, Coptic studies, Deutschsprachiger Koptologenverband, Münster
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Guest Post: Anthony Alcock – Triadon. English version of a 14th cent. religious poem written in Coptic and Arabic (Part 1)
Anthony Alcock has prepared a new translation of an interesting Coptic text, the Triadon. You can download the first part of his translation HERE.
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Tagged Anthony Alcock, Coptic literature, Coptic Manuscripts, Guest Post, Oscar von Lemm, Triadon
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2nd International Symposium ‘Georgian Manuscripts’, Tbilisi, 25-30 June, 2013
I got this message today from Buba Kudava, the director of the National Centre of Manuscripts (ეროვნული ცენტრის დირექტორი) in Tbilisi, so I thought I might share: Georgian Manuscript is an important part of the world’s cultural heritage. It represents … Continue reading
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Guest Post: Anthony Alcock – The Apocalypse of Elijah. English translation made from the text in Georg Steindorff Die Apokalypse des Elias (1899)
The document below is available in PDF format HERE. Twenty-two unpaginated folios of an Akhmimic text with fragments of a 23rd contain two separate texts: the first an anonymous apocalypse (pp.1-18), the second the Apocalypse of Elijah (pp.19-44), which, according … Continue reading
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Tagged Akhmimic, Anthony Alcock, Apocalypse of Elijah, apocrypha, E.A.W. Budge
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The Website of the Versiones Slavicae Project. Corpus of Medieval Slavonic Translations and Their Greek Sources
In May 2012, Dr. Yavor Miltenov introduced on this blog a new project titled The Versiones Slavicae. A Corpus of Medieval Slavonic Translations and Their Greek Sources. You can read his post here. The aim of VERSIONES SLAVICAE initiative is to … Continue reading
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Tagged Announcements, John Chrysostom, Patristics, Slavonic, Versiones Slavicae, Yavor Miltenov
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The Network for the Study of Esotericism in Antiquity (NSEA)
The Network for the Study of Esotericism in Antiquity announces their new website http://ancientesotericism.org/. Two dear friends, Dylan Burns (University of Copenhagen) and David Tibet (Macquarie University), are among the founding members of NSEA. Ancient religious literature often demands a … Continue reading
Guest Post: Anthony Alcock – Epistula Apostolorum. English translation of the Coptic text
Note A.S.: You can download here the document below in PDF format (it contains also critical notes to the translation) In 1895 Carl Schmidt published a report of a fragmentary Coptic text he had discovered at the French Institute in … Continue reading
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Tagged Akhmimic, Anthony Alcock, apocrypha, Carl Schmidt, Coptic literature, Epistula Apostolorum, IFAO, papyri
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Seymour de Ricci on Jean Dujardin
A few days ago, I pointed out that some of the White Monastery parchment fragments kept in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, were collected in 1838 by a certain Jean Dujardin, during his short stay in Egypt. Dujardin died of … Continue reading
