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Two Other Scraps from a Parchment Leaf Containing the Apocryphal Acts of John in Coptic

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Alin Suciu

Recently, I reported that one of the Coptic fragments which were auctioned by Sotheby’s in July 2009 contains a portion from Metastasis Iohannis. This apocryphal writing, originally written in Greek, is actually part of the Acts of John (chapters 106-115). Those … Continue reading →

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Two Extracts from Proclus of Constantinople in a Coptic Fragment in Louvre

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Alin Suciu

(Thank you, David Tibet, for the useful suggestions, especially regarding the Coptic text!) Proclus of Constantinople was held in high regard in Coptic Egypt. His fame was largely due to the fact that Proclus allied himself, from the beginning, with … Continue reading →

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A Further Fragment from the Apocryphal Acts of John in Coptic: Once Again Concerning the Sotheby-Bolaffi Fragments

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Alin Suciu

I have already discussed several times the ten Coptic fragments which were sold by Sotheby’s in July 2009. I was in Vienna when the auction took place and, as Cornelia Römer was at that time the director of the papyrus … Continue reading →

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