A note from Dr Anthony Alcock to say that he has translated the Coptic Epistula Apostolorum for us all. The PDF is here:
So what is this text? It seems to be a Greek text of the 2nd century A.D., extant only in translation, in a fragmentary Coptic version; in a complete Ethiopic version, probably made from the Coptic via an Arabic intermediary; and in a Latin palimpsest. Dr Alcock has translated the Coptic text for us.
I must make it clear that this is not a work of scholarship, merely an attempt to present a reliable English version of the Coptic text in the hope that it may be of some use to those interested in early Christian literature.
Undoubtedly it is. Well done!
Update: I find that Dr Alcock has also published this at Alin Suciu’s excellent blog here. The more the merrier!
Thanks to you and Dr Alcock!
BTW Check out Jstor – something’s happening…
Thank you! I’d forgotten how much good stuff was on there.
Caught this on Alin’s webpage – so intereseting to see the ‘ladder’ of transmissions, and similar, of course, for the demotic…
Yes, the process of transmission is really interesting!