The Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon (eBook)

Cover 1
Acknowledgments 6
Table of Contents 8
List of Abbreviations 12
Introduction 14
Chapter 1: History of Research on the Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon 25
A New Ancient Gospel? 25
Other Documents Emerge: The Strasbourg Fragments and the Qasr el-Wizz Codex 33
Reframing the Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon 34
Chapter 2: The Manuscripts 39
P. Berol. 22220 39
Location and Acquisition 39
Origin of P. Berol. 22220 42
Paleography and Dating 43
Scribal note 47
Codicology 48
Orthography 51
Strasbourg Copte 5–7 52
Location and Acquisition 52
Papyrological Reconstruction 52
Language 53
Paleography and Dating 54
The Qasr el-Wizz Codex 55
Discovery and Location 55
Content of the Codex 56
Description and Dating of the Manuscript 58
Chapter 3: The Content of the Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon and the Relationship Between the Manuscripts 61
Outline of the Text 61
The Relationship between the Manuscripts 68
The Relationship between P. Berol. 22220 and Strasbourg Copte 5–7 68
The Relationship between the Strasbourg Fragments and the Qasr el-Wizz Manuscript 69
The Relationship between P. Berol. 22220 and the Qasr el-Wizz Manuscript 71
The Qasr el-Wizz Version of the Hymn of the Cross 74
Placing P. Berol. 22220 Frag. 9 78
Placing Strasbourg Copte 6 79
Chapter 4: The Place of the Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon in Coptic Literature 83
“We, the Apostles.” The Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon and Other Similar Coptic Stories Attributed to the Apostles 83
The Apostolic Memoirs Framed by a Patristic Sermon 88
The Apostolic Memoirs without a Homiletic Framework 108
“O My Holy Members,” “O My Honored Members” : Apostles, Martyrs, and Monks 121
The Literary and Liturgical Function of the Coptic Memoirs of the Apostles 134
The Local Egyptian Character of the Apostolic Memoirs 138
Dating the Apostolic Memoirs 141
The Christology of the Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon : Christ as King and Son of the King. The Dating of the Work 145
Text and Translation 152
Abbreviations used in the critical apparatus 152
Edition of P. Berol. 22220 154
Edition of Strasbourg Copte 5–7 174
Edition of the Hymn of the Cross according to the Qasr el-Wizz Codex 178
Translation of P. Berol. 22220 183
Translation of Strasbourg Copte 5–7 191
Translation of the Hymn of the Cross according to the Qasr el-Wizz Codex 193
Bibliography 196
Index of Greek and Coptic Words in the Edition 220
I. Greek-Coptic Words 220
II. Names 223
III. Coptic Words 223
IV. Conjugation Forms 233
V. Pronominal PTN 235
Index of Sources 237
Biblical Texts 237
Ancient Texts 238
Manuscripts 243
Coptic 243
Arabic 244
Name Index 245
General Index 250