Caught in Translation: Studies on Versions of Late-Antique Christian Literature

Madalina Toca is a PhD candidate in late antique Christianity at KU Leuven. She is completing her thesis on Isidore of Pelusium’s epistolary corpus, tackling issues related to the historical relevance of the letters, the formation of the corpus, and its reception in Greek, Latin, and Syriac.Dan Batovici, PhD (2015), is an FWO Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at KU Leuven and has published extensively on the reception of early Christian books in Late Antiquity.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Trajectory, Marginalia, Selection: Issues in the Study of Versions of Late Antique Christian LiteratureMadalina Toca and Dan Batovici1 Latin and Oriental Translations of the Epistola ad Timotheum de morte apostolorum Attributed to Dionysius the AreopagiteCaroline Macé and Michael Muthreich2 The Armenian Translations of John Chrysostom: The Issue of SelectionEmilio Bonfiglio3 The Armenian Reception of the Homilies of Jacob of Serugh: New FindingsAndy Hilkens4 St. Isaac of Nineveh’s Gnostic Chapters in Sogdian: The Identification of an Anonymous Text from Bulayïq (Turfan)Adrian Pirtea5 Sacred Spices: The Syriac Reception of Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Song of SongsMarion Pragt6 Four New Syriac Witnesses to the Middle Recension of the Ignatian CorpusDan Batovici7 The Reception of Isidore of Pelusium in Its Ancient Versions: Latin as a Case StudyMadalina Toca8 Manuscripts and Margins: The Case of the Late Mediaeval Slavonic Hexaemeron Collection or Šestodnevnik and Its Greek Source TextLara Sels9 Between Translation and Rewriting: The Nag Hammadi Corpus and the First Book of EnochFrancesco Berno10 Translating Greek to Old Nubian: Reading between the Lines of Ps.-Chrysostom’s In venerabilem crucem sermoVincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and Alexandros Tsakos11 A Fourth Ethiopic Witness to the Shepherd of HermasTed Erho12 A Byzantine Bureaucrat and Arabic Philosopher: Ibrāhīm ibn Yuḥannā al-Anṭākī and His Translation of On the Divine Names 4.18–35Samuel NobleManuscript Index