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Alin Suciu is a Romanian coptologist and papyrologist. He is a senior researcher at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Suciu holds a PhD degree in Religious Studies from Université Laval, Québec. He has published articles on ancient manuscripts and biblical, Patristic, and apocryphal texts in the Journal of Biblical Literature, Journal of Semitic Studies, Harvard Theological Review, Vigiliae Christianae, Le Muséon, and elsewhere. He maintains a scholarly blog entitled Patristics, Apocrypha, Coptic Literature and Manuscripts.
Suciu is a member of the Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari (CMCL), an international project which aims to reconstruct codicologically the dismembered Sahidic manuscripts of the library of the White Monastery, situated near Sohag in Upper Egypt. The CMCL project is currently hosted by the Hiob Ludolf Center for Ethiopian Studies in Hamburg.
During the debate concerning the authenticity of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife papyrus, Suciu suggested that there are strong arguments which indicate that the fragment is a modern forgery.
Selected publications
- Suciu, Alin. "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.
- Suciu, Alin. "The Sahidic Version of Jacob of Serugh's Memrā on the Ascension of Christ," Le Muséon 128 (2015) 49-83.
- Suciu, Alin. "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.
- Suciu, Alin. “A Coptic Fragment from the History of Joseph the Carpenter in the Collection of Duke University Library,” Harvard Theological Review 106:1 (2013) 93-104.
- Suciu, Alin. "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.
- Suciu, Alin - Thomassen, Einar. “An Unknown ‘Apocryphal’ Text from the White Monastery,” in P. Buzi – A. Camplani (eds.), Christianity in Egypt: Literary Production and Intellectual Trends. Studies in Honor of Tito Orlandi (Studia Ephemeridis ‘Augustinianum,’ 125; Rome: Istituto Patristico Augustinianum, 2011) 477-499.