Category Archives: Announcements

Conference on the Bodmer Papyri

Posted on February 1, 2014 by Alin Suciu

Alberto Camplani just sent me the announcement concerning this importance conference on the Bodmer Papyri, “I Papiri Bodmer. Biblioteche, comunità di asceti e cultura letteraria in greco e copto nell’Egitto tardoantico.” The conference will take place February 3, 2014 at … Continue reading →

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International Seminar in Coptic Papyrology. Barcelona, July 6-13, 2014

Posted on November 17, 2013 by Alin Suciu

The International seminar in Coptic Papyrology will be held in Barcelona from 6 to 13 July 2014. It follows the seminars held in Vienna 2006, Leipzig 2008, Strasbourg 2010 and Heidelberg 2012. The event will be organised by Universitat Pompeu … Continue reading →

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Coptic Sushi Night at SBL Monday, 25 Nov 2013

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Alin Suciu

I’ve just received this message from Christian Askeland. If you want to participate, you can leave your messages here and Christian will read them (I will not attend the SBL meeting). For those who love Coptic, for those who love … Continue reading →

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Postdoctoral Position at University of Oslo

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Alin Suciu

Here is a message from Dr. Hugo Lundhaug: A full-time position as Postdoctoral Research Fellow is available at The Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo. The position is attached to the ERC-project New Contexts for Old Texts: Unorthodox Texts and … Continue reading →

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Another sad news: RIP François Bovon

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Alin Suciu

Dr. Claire Clivaz writes on Facebook that François Bovon, the accomplished scholar of apocryphal literature and early Christianity, has passed away. His death is truly a great loss to the academic world. May his soul rejoice in the glory of … Continue reading →

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More Coptic Manuscripts at Gallica

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Alin Suciu

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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2013 AELAC Meeting (Dole, June 29-July 1)

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Alin Suciu

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 →

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Deutschsprachiger Koptologenverband / Deutscher Orientalistentag 2013

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Alin Suciu

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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2nd International Symposium ‘Georgian Manuscripts’, Tbilisi, 25-30 June, 2013

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Alin Suciu

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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The Website of the Versiones Slavicae Project. Corpus of Medieval Slavonic Translations and Their Greek Sources

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Alin Suciu

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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The Network for the Study of Esotericism in Antiquity (NSEA)

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Alin Suciu

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 →

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