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: asuciu@gwdg.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 Sahidic Tripartite Isaiah: Origins and Transmission within the Coptic Manuscript Culture,” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 66 (2020) 377–406.
1) “The Ethiopic Version of Stephen the Theban’s Sermo asceticus,” Le Muséon 132 (2019) 475–507 (co-authored with Amsalu Tefera).
2) “Coptic Vestiges of Basil of Caesarea’s Asceticon Magnum (CPG 2875),” Vigiliae Christianae 73 (2019) 359–384.
3) “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.
4) “Sitting in the Cell: The Literary Development of an Ascetic Praxis in Paul of Tamma’s Writings. With an Edition of Some Hitherto Unknown Fragments of De Cella,” Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 68 (2017) 141–171.
5) “An Armenian Fragment of the Gospel of Mark in the Erkat‘agir Script: With a Note on Its Codicological Reconstruction” Journal of Biblical Literature 135 (2016) 849–857.
6) “The Sahidic Version of Jacob of Serugh’s Memrā on the Ascension of Christ,” Le Muséon 128 (2015), 49–83.
7) “Revisiting the Literary Dossier of Stephen of Thebes: With Preliminary Editions of the Greek Redactions of the Ascetic Commandments,” Adamantius 21 (2015) 301–325.
8) “The Book of Bartholomew: A Coptic Apostolic Memoir,” Apocrypha 26 (2015) 211–237.
9) “Coptic Scribes and Manuscripts. Dated and Datable Codices from the Monastery of Apa Shenoute. I: The Codices of the Scribe Victor, the Son of Shenoute (First Half of the 12th Century),” Journal of Coptic Studies 16 (2014), 195–215.
10) “Ps.-Theophili Alexandrini Sermo de Cruce et Latrone. Edition of Pierpont Morgan M595 with Parallels and Translation,” Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum – Journal of Ancient Christianity 16 (2012) 181–225.