{"id":17965,"date":"2018-04-02T19:35:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T18:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=17965"},"modified":"2018-04-02T19:35:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T18:35:35","slug":"the-martyrdom-of-theodore-the-anatolian-a-bohairic-coptic-text-translated-by-anthony-alcock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2018\/04\/02\/the-martyrdom-of-theodore-the-anatolian-a-bohairic-coptic-text-translated-by-anthony-alcock\/","title":{"rendered":"The martyrdom of Theodore the Anatolian: a Bohairic Coptic text translated by Anthony Alcock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Anthony Alcock has sent in another of his excellent translations from Coptic.\u00a0 This time it is a hagiographical text, the <em>Martyrdom of Theodore the Anatolian, or Oriental<\/em>.\u00a0 It is translated from a Bohairic Coptic text preserved in Codex Vaticanus 63 ff. 28-54.\u00a0 The text was\u00a0edited by I. Balestri and H. Hyvernat in the <em>Acta Martyrum<\/em> (1907), p.34-62 (in the second half of the volume), with a Latin translation on p.30 f.\u00a0 This is\u00a0online <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/actamartyrum01bale\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Here is\u00a0Dr Alcock&#8217;s\u00a0English translation, which is very welcome:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Alcock-The-Martyrdom-of-Theodore-the-Anatolian.pdf\">Alcock-The Martyrdom of Theodore the Anatolian<\/a>\u00a0(PDF)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"justify\">Most hagiographical\u00a0texts belong to the 5-9th century; no doubt this does also.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">There is a plate from a 9th century Morgan collection manuscript, of which details are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ica.themorgan.org\/manuscript\/214172\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/corsair.themorgan.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=214172&amp;V1=1\">here<\/a>, and which contains a version of the <em>Life<\/em> in Sahidic Coptic (facsimile online at Internet Archive <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/PhantoouLibrary\">here<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0The webpage\u00a0labels him as Theodore Tiro.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/m613_001v.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17967\" src=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/m613_001v.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">There seems to be quite a\u00a0 bit of confusion about the various lives of St Theodore, and whether he is one saint or two!\u00a0 There are several lives in Greek, listed in the <em>Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca<\/em> (<em>BHG<\/em>) entries 1760-1773.\u00a0 Unfortunately none of the material indicates which Greek <em>life<\/em> the Bohairic corresponds to.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">But it is useful to have this text in English!\u00a0 Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Alcock has sent in another of his excellent translations from Coptic.\u00a0 This time it is a hagiographical text, the Martyrdom of Theodore the Anatolian, or Oriental.\u00a0 It is translated from a Bohairic Coptic text preserved in Codex Vaticanus 63 ff. 28-54.\u00a0 The text was\u00a0edited by I. Balestri and H. Hyvernat in the Acta Martyrum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[184,483],"class_list":["post-17965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-anthony-alcock","tag-coptic"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}