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Author Archives: Alin Suciu
“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)
Originally posted on 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…
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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
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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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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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Tagged Announcements, Buba Kudava, Georgian, Manuscripts, Tbilisi
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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
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
2012 in review
When I started this blog, in January 2011, I did not believe that ‘Patristics, Apocrypha, Coptic literature and Manuscripts’ can attract so many readers. I hope to keep it up next year too and thanks to everyone who read the … Continue reading
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Memorabilia: Georg Zoega on Reconstructing Coptic Manuscripts from Scattered Leaves
As the readers of my blog probably know well, the main challenge of Coptic literature is the fragmentary state in which most of the manuscripts in this language are preserved. Of course, I am not referring to the late Bohairic … Continue reading
The Coptic Manuscripts of Monsieur Dujardin and the Crawford Collection in the John Rylands Library, Manchester
Much of the modern circulation of the Coptic manuscript fragments from the library of the Monastery of Apa Shenoute (or, alternatively, the White Monastery) still remains unknown to us. With some exceptions, we do not know exactly how the fragments … Continue reading
Guest Post: Ivan Miroshnikov – An Unpublished Coptic-Latin Dictionary from the Nineteenth Century
I am happy to host again here Ivan Miroshnikov, this time with an article concerning a very interesting discovery which he made in a Russian library. After the Allies won the World War II, many so-called ‘items of cultural value’ … Continue reading
Two Forthcoming Articles on Christian Apocrypha
Here are two of my forthcoming studies on Coptic Christian traditions concerning the childhood of Christ. The versions of the papers are subsequent to the peer-review process. 1) “‘Me, This Wretched Sinner’: A Coptic Fragment from the Vision of Theophilus Concerning … Continue reading
THE LIFE OF ADAM AND EVE AND ADAMIC TRADITIONS (7-10 janvier 2014 – January 7th-10th, 2014)
Merry Christmas everyone! It’s been a bit hectic around here lately and this made me take a blogging break. However, here is an interesting message I just got from Pierluigi Piovanelli concerning the next colloquium organized by the Association pour … Continue reading
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Tagged AELAC, Announcements, Life of Adam and Eve, Pierluigi Piovanelli
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SBL Coptic Breakfast
Here is a message from Christian Askeland to those who will attend the SBL meeting later this month: Society of Biblical Literature attendees with interest in Coptic language and literature are warmly invited to meet Monday morning (19 Nov) at … Continue reading
Guest Post: Timothy Pettipiece – Jesus’ Wife and the Failure of Early Christian Studies
On Thursday Oct 25, Karen King gave a lecture at Carleton University in Ottawa called “Controversies over Sexuality and Marriage among Early Christians: What a New Papyrus Fragment Can (or Can’t) Tell Us.” While Prof. King did little to respond … Continue reading
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Tagged Carleton University, Early Christianity, Gospel of Jesus's Wife, Karen L. King, Ottawa, Tim Pettipiece
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