Alin Suciu

Biographic Data

ID1483450
NAMEAlin Suciu
GIVEN NAMESAlin
FAMILY NAMESuciu
SIGNATURESUCIU A
AFFILIATIONSUniversité Laval
ORCID0000-0002-0234-8196
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • From One of the Earliest Greek Lectionaries to a Coptic Gospel Codex

    Alin SuciuARTICLENovum Testamentum2026

    This study reassesses the five Greek gospel leaves preserved in Vienna as P. Vindob. G 2324 (Gregory-Aland Lectionary 1043), long regarded as one of the earliest extant lectionaries. Through codicological and paleographic analysis, this article argues that the fragments in question did not originate as an independent lectionary, but rather formed part of the Sahidic Gospel codex sa 131 from the White Monastery in Upper Egypt. The scribe who copie…

  • Islamic Influence in Coptic Book Culture

    Alin SuciuARTICLEIntellectual History of the…2025

    This article examines an overlooked Bohairic parchment codex of the Gospel of John from the White Monastery in Upper Egypt, dating to the 9th–10th century CE . Oddly enough, this manuscript was copied in an oblong, horizontal format characteristic of contemporary Abbasid Qurʾāns. By codicologically reconstructing its fragments and analyzing its script, illuminations, and textual divisions, the study situates this codex within the broader history …

  • The Sahidic Tripartite Isaiah

    Alin SuciuARTICLEArchiv für Papyrusforschung und…2020

    This study shows that the book of Isaiah was sometimes divided by Coptic scribes into three parts, each of them being copied individually into a separate manuscript. By surveying the available evidence, the author argues that this practice originated in the 4th century CE and was in use until the 8th century CE. The origins and eventual disappearance of tripartite Isaiah must be connected with the transformations that affected Coptic codices and …

  • Coptic Vestiges of Basil of Caesarea's Asceticon Magnum (CPG 2875)

    Alin SuciuARTICLEVigiliae Christianae2019

    This paper introduces the Sahidic Coptic fragments of Basil of Caesarea's Asceticon Magnum (CPG 2875). The first part of the article is devoted to the study of a Sahidic fragment of the Prooemium to Basil's Long Rules. The author demonstrates that the Sahidic text did not serve as a basis for the Arabic translation of the Prooemium, as some scholars assumed in the past. In the second part, a newly identified fragment of the Short Rules is present…

  • The Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon

    Alin SuciuBOOKThe Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon2017

    The present volume offers a new edition, English translation, and interpretation of the Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon, previously known as the Gospel of the Savior. Alin Suciu demonstrates that this apocryphal text is one of the apostolic memoirs, a peculiar genre of Coptic literature sufficiently documented here for the first time.

  • Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon

    Alin SuciuBOOKBerlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon2017

    The present volume offers a new edition, English translation, and interpretation of the Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon , previously known as the Gospel of the Savior . An apocryphal story about Jesus probably transpiring shortly before the Crucifixion, the Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon claims to recount the narrative as told by the apostles themselves. The text also includes a long hymn sung by Christ to the cross on which he will soon be crucified.…

  • A Coptic Fragment from the History of Joseph the Carpenter in the Collection of Duke University Library

    Open AccessAlin SuciuARTICLEHarvard Theological Review2013

    The History of Joseph the Carpenter (BHO 532–533; CANT 60; clavis coptica 0037) is readily accessible in many collections of New Testament Apocrypha. The text is fully preserved in Arabic and Bohairic, which was the regional dialect of Lower Egypt, and fragmentarily in Sahidic (i.e., the dialect of Upper Egypt). The present paper introduces P. Duk. inv. 239, a previously unidentified Sahidic fragment of this writing, which surfaced recently among…

  • A British Library Fragment from a Homily on the Lament of Mary and the So-Called Gospel of Gamaliel

    Open AccessAlin SuciuARTICLEAethiopica2013Cited by: 1

    The article introduces British Library Or. 7027, f. 75, a previously unidentified fragment from the Sahidic version of a homily on the Lament of Mary, which is attributed in Arabic and Ethiopic manuscripts to the mysterious figure of Cyriacus, bishop of Behnesa. As parts of this text had been ascribed by some scholars to the so-called Coptic Gospel of Gamaliel, our paper reevaluates the dossier, pointing out that this apocryphon is just an imagin…

  • Me, This Wretched Sinner

    Alin SuciuARTICLEVigiliae Christianae2013

    The Vision of Theophilus is one of the important apocryphal narratives concerning the flight of the Holy Family to Egypt. Although the text is known to survive in Arabic, Ethiopic and Syriac, a lost Coptic original has long been accepted by scholars. The present paper introduces a hitherto unidentified fragment from the Coptic version of this text. The fragment came from the White Monastery in Upper Egypt and it is currently kept in the National …

  • À propos de la datation du manuscrit contenant le Grand Euchologe du Monastère Blanc

    Alin SuciuARTICLEVigiliae Christianae2011

    The most complete Sahidic manuscript of the Euchologion, the liturgical book destined to the priestly service, comes from the White Monastery in Upper Egypt. The dating of this fragmentary codex has been a matter of debate among scholars for a long time, but their results have not reached consensus. The aim of the present paper is to enter this debate from the angle of paleography, showing that the existence of a dated codex copied by the same sc…