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Ten years ago Alin Suciu proposed that a homily preserved in Sahidic Coptic in a fragmentary manuscript in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow was in fact a genuine work by second-century patristic author Melito of Sardis. Remarkably his article arguing this is now about to appear, in Adamantius. The first page is on Academia.edu here. Here’s the abstract: This article reexamines a fragmentary Sahidic papyrus codex in Moscow that preserves a homily on baptism and the four cosmic elements. First edited…
Back in 2017, I reported on the discovery of the log book of Inspector Merer in the Wadi al-Jarf in Egypt. Merer was the captain of one of the boats that shipped stone to build the Great Pyramid of Khufu / Cheops at Giza. In antiquity the Nile had seven branches which emptied into the sea in the Nile Delta. We can see from tomb paintings that in those days there were tropical animals such as crocodiles and hippopotamus in Egypt. But only two branches of the Nile delta remain today, and the…
As promised, yesterday I scanned the text of the ancient Latin translation of the first homily of Eusebius of Emesa (fl. ca. 330), “De arbitrio, voluntate Pauli and domini passione”, “On freewill, the will of Paul, and the passion of the Lord”. This work has the reference number CPG 3525. In fact I learn from the CPG that this is one of the few homilies by Eusebius of Emesa where the original Greek is preserved; printed in PG 86: 536-545. Here’s the scan, in MS Word .docx format, of the edition…
This evening I started work on the homilies of Eusebius of Emesa. Homily 1, De Arbitrio, is 31 pages of Latin in Buytaert’s critical edition – the only edition. I pulled these into Finereader, and ran the Latin recognition on them. Then started going through them, shrinking the default rectangles for text recognition to exclude line numbers and apparatus. I did 15 pages before I had to break off. On Monday I’ll do the rest, make whatever minor corrections are needed, and upload it here. Then…
