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An Unknown “Apocryphal” Texts from the White Monastery: Update
The article which I wrote with Einar Thomassen (University of Bergen) concerning a gospel-like apocryphon has appeared in the Festschrift Tito Orlandi: A. Suciu & E. Thomassen, “An Unknown...
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P. Lacau, Fragments d’apocryphes coptes
P. Lacau, Fragments d’apocryphes coptes (MIFAO, 9; Cairo: Imprimerie de l’IFAO, 1904) download the book (89 MB) Filed under: Apocrypha, Bibliographies Tagged: Acta Pilati, apocrypha, bibliography,...
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First Summer School on Christian Apocryphal Literature. Strasbourg, France,...
I just got an e-mail from the Association pour l’étude de la littérature apocryphe chrétienne (AELAC) concerning the First Summer School on Christian Apocryphal Literature, which will take place in...
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An Old Testament Pseudepigraphon in Coptic: Yet Another Manuscript from the...
Here and here I wrote about the identification of some papyrus fragments which belonged once to the Catholic University in Louvain. They have been among the few unidentified items published by Louis...
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2012 AELAC Meeting (Dole, June 28-30)
The Association pour l’étude de la littérature apocryphe chrétienne (AELAC) has announced on its website the programme for the 2012 meeting, which will take place June 28-30 in Dole, France. Here are...
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Update: AELAC Meeting, Dole, June 28-30 2012. Schedule and Paper Abstract
On June 29, I will be presenting a paper at the Association pour l’étude de la littérature apocryphe chrétienne (AELAC) meeting, which shall take place in Dole, France. You can find below the complete...
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Freely Accessible Issues of the Journal Aethiopica
The website of the journal Aethiopica, edited by the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg University, has recently added some issues which are freely accessible. Recommended readings for...
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On the So-Called Gospel of Jesus’s Wife. Some Preliminary Thoughts by Hugo...
First of all, it should be clearly stated that, although in the following lines we shall express our doubts concerning the authenticity of the so-called Gospel of Jesus’s Wife, our suggestions remain...
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Alin Suciu – Hugo Lundhaug: A Peculiar Dialectal Feature in the Gospel of...
In our previous post on the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife, we remarked, as others have done, that line 6 of the papyrus also goes back to a logion from the Gospel of Thomas. Here is the parallel: There are...
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More Coptic Fragments from an Encomium on the Apostles (Ps-Severian of...
In this post I drew attention to a Coptic encomium on the twelve apostles, attributed to Severian of Gabala (CPG 4281; clavis coptica 0331). Sever Voicu published, in the journal Apocrypha, an...
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A Coptic Apocryphal Manuscript from Nubia (the Qasr el-Wizz Codex)
When the High Dam was built in the 1960s, almost the entire Nile valley between Aswan and Wadi Halfa had been inundated in order to create the Lake Nassar. As the waters were rising, many archeological...
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Newly Found Fragments from Codex Tchacos
My thanks to David Tibet for his kind help NOTE: I introduced for the first time the Tchacos fragments discussed below during the annual reunion of the Association pour l’étude de la littérature...
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Guest Post: Roelof van den Broek – Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem, On the Life and...
Roelof van den Broek, Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem, On the Life and the Passion of Christ. A Coptic Apocryphon (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 118), Leiden-Boston: Brill 2013; 215 pp. Price: 101,-...
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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...
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Guest Post: Anthony Alcock – Epistula Apostolorum. English translation of the...
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...
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Guest Post: Anthony Alcock – The Apocalypse of Elijah. English translation...
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),...
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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...
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Guest Post: Anthony Alcock – The Repose of St John the Evangelist and Apostle
You can download here Anthony Alcock’s translation of the Sahidic version of Metastasis Iohannis (CANT 215.2; BHG 910-913d). This writing is preserved in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Ethiopic,...
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Guest Post: Anthony Alcok – The Mysteries of John the Evangelist
BM Or. 7026 contains two Sahidic texts: the one translated here, the Mysteries of John, and the Life of Pisentius. Both were published, together with several other texts, by E.A. Wallis Budge in Coptic...
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Another sad news: RIP François Bovon
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...
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