Dr. Alin Suciu

GENERAL INFORMATION

Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Complete Digital Edition and Translation of the Coptic Sahidic Old Testament
Friedländer Weg 11
37085 Göttingen

Tel. +49 (0551) 39-37012

E-mail: alin.suciu@adwgoe.de

Current position: Senior Academic Researcher

ACADEMIC EDUCATION 

  • 2005 – 2013: Religious Studies, Laval University, Ph.D.
  • 2003 – 2004: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Babes-Bolyai University, M.A.

SCIENTIFIC DEGREES

  • 2013: Ph.D., Laval University (Canada), thesis supervisor: Paul-Hubert Poirier

PROFESSIONAL CAREER AFTER COMPLETING DEGREE

  • since 2015: researcher, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
  • 2013 – 2014: researcher, Hiob Ludolf Zentrum für Äthiopistik, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg

MISCELLANEOUS

Fellowships, Awards and Honors (Selected)

  • 2014: “Swenson Family Fellowship in Eastern Christian Manuscript Studies,” Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN)
  • 2012: Travel grant offered by the Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies (COMSt) project (Hamburg University) for attending the Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Rome, September 17–22, 2012

Further Scientific Activities (Selected)

  • since 2012: Collaborator of the project New Contexts for Old Texts: Unorthodox Texts and Monastic Manuscript Culture in Fourth- and Fifth Century Egypt (NEWCONT) (director: Prof. Hugo Lundhaug, Faculty of Theology, Oslo University).
  • since 2010: Board member of Corpus dei manoscritti copti letterari (http://cmcl. it/), a scholarly enterprise developed under the auspices of the Unione Accademica Nazionale – Hiob Ludolf Zentrum, Universität Hamburg – La Sapienza Università di Roma – Istituto Patristico Augustinianum.
  • 2005 – 2009: Member of Groupe de recherche sur le christianisme et l’Antiquité tardive (GRECAT), Faculté de théologie et de sciences religieuses, Université Laval.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

0) The Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon: A Coptic Apostolic Memoir (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament I, 370; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017).

1) “Islamic Influence in Coptic Book Culture: A Bohairic Codex of the Gospel of John from the White Monastery,” Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 13 (2025) 1-20.

2) “A ‘Spiritual Treasure in Five Languages’: Pentaglot Biblical Manuscripts from Egypt in a Global and Transregional Perspective,” in J. Gnisci – S. Dege-Müller – J. Karlsson – V. Pisani (eds.), Manuscript Treasures from Afro-Eurasia: Scribes, Patrons, Collectors, and Readers (Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 46; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025) 425-466.

3) “The Johannine Motif of Noli Me Tangere in Greek, Syriac, and Coptic Sources: From Biblical Exegesis to Apocryphal Narrative,” in D. Atanassova – F. Feder – H. Sternberg el-Hotabi (eds.), Pharaonen, Mönche und Gelehrte. Auf dem Pilgerweg durch 5000 Jahre ägyptische Geschichte über drei Kontinente. Heike Behlmer zum 65. Geburtstag (Texte und Studien zur Koptischen Bibel/Texts and Studies on the Coptic Bible, 4; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2023) 811-846.

4) The Sahidic Tripartite Isaiah: Origins and Transmission within the Coptic Manuscript Culture,” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 66 (2020) 377-406.

5) “Coptic Vestiges of Basil of Caesarea’s Asceticon Magnum (CPG 2875),” Vigiliae Christianae 73 (2019) 359-384.

6) “A Bohairic Fragment of the Acts of Matthew in the City of the Priests and other Coptic Fragments from the Genizah of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus,” Le Muséon 131 (2018) 251-277.

7) “Remarks on a Coptic Sahidic Fragment of 3 Kingdoms, Previously Described as an Apocryphon of Solomon,” Journal of Biblical Literature 136 (2017) 57-62 (co-authored with Felix Albrecht).

8) “The End of the Library of the Monastery of Atripe,” in P. Buzi – A. Camplani – F. Contardi (eds.), Coptic Society, Literature and Religion from Late Antiquity to Modern Times. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Rome, September 17th-22nd, 2012, and Plenary Reports of the Ninth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Cairo, September 15th-19th, 2008 vol. 2 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 247; Louvain: Peeters, 2016) 891-918 (co-authored with Tito Orlandi).

9) “An Addition to the Christian-Palestinian Aramaic Literary Corpus: Logos XV of Abba Isaiah of Scetis,” Journal of Semitic Studies 61 (2016) 449-461.

10) “On a Bilingual Copto-Arabic Manuscript of 4 Ezra and the Reception of this Pseudepigraphon in Coptic Literature,” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 25.1 (2015) 3-22.