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 Alin SUCIU

A COPTIC TEXT ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN OF JERUSALEM:

THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE ENCOMIUM IN STEPHANUM
PROTOMARTYRIS REVISITED
(BHO 1093; CANT 302; Clavis Coptica 0985)

The debris of a Sahidic parchment manuscript from the White Mon-

astery in Upper Egypt preserve extensive portions from an encomium on
Stephen the Protomartyr attributed to a bishop of Jerusalem (BHO 1093;
CANT 302; Clavis Coptica 0985)1, whose name is lost in a lacuna2. The
lacunose title of the encomium has long been known to be extant on the
recto of the fragment Paris, BnF, Copte 1317, f. 20. In an article published
in a previous issue of the Analecta Bollandiana, I indicated that a small
parchment scrap kept in Berlin’s Staatsbibliothek as Ms. Or. Fol. 1614bis,
frag. 3 attaches to the fragment in Paris3. Frustratingly enough, while the
two joint fragments allow us to reconstruct more or less confidently most
of the text’s title, they contain no letter traces from the name of the author,
which was situated at the very beginning of the second line.
Furthermore, the title and the incipit of the text are also partly extant on
a Sahidic papyrus fragment recovered from the covers of London manu-
script, British Library, Or. 7029. The current whereabouts of the papyrus
is unknown, but Sami Uljas published it on the basis of a transcription made
by Sir Herbert Thompson while the fragment was still in the British Mu-
seum4. Unfortunately, as the papyrus was already heavily damaged when
Thompson studied it, the name of the bishop of Jerusalem to whom the en-
comium was attributed is equally absent from the second witness of the text.

1
The clavis coptica of the Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari project (http://www.
cmcl.it/, accessed: January 2019) formerly ascribed to the text the number 0491. However, this
number currently designates the anonymous Historia Stephani Protomartyris (BHO 1086) edited
by Y. ‘ABD AL-MASIḤ, A Coptic Apocryphon on Saint Stephen the Archdeacon, in Le Muséon,
70 (1957), pp. 329-347. The text under scrutiny here has received in the meantime the number
0985 and can be found under the lemma “Giovanni di Gerusalemme, In Stephanum”.
2
On this text, see e.g. E. LUCCHESI, À propos d’un enkomion copte sur Étienne le proto-
martyr (BHO 1093), in AB, 101 (1983), pp. 421-422; F. BOVON, The Dossier on Stephen, the
First Martyr, in Harvard Theological Review, 96 (2003), pp. 279-315, at 307-308.
3
A. SUCIU, The Question of the Authorship of the Historia Stephani Protomartyris (BHO
1093; CANT 302; Clavis Coptica 0491): Theodosius of Jerusalem, Abba Isaiah, the Monk Ro-
manus and Peter the Iberian, in AB, 134 (2016), pp. 279-292.
4
S. ULJAS, Lost Coptic Texts from Herbert Thompson Papers. I: The ‘Acts of Stephen’, in
Journal of Coptic Studies, 17 (2015), pp. 165-213.

Analecta Bollandiana, 137 (2019), p. 58-62.

 THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE ENCOMIUM IN STEPHANUM 59

While the name of the putative author has remained an absolute enig-
ma, in my paper I suggested a possible candidate for the authorship on the
basis of the historical information that can be gleaned from the text. As the
realia mentioned in the encomium include the Monastery of Romanus —
a stronghold of anti-Chalcedonian resistance in Palestine — and the Hagio-
politan sanctuary (τόπος) of Stephen, which was consecrated ca. 439 CE
by empress Eudocia, I considered that the text was probably ascribed to
Theodosius, a fervent opponent of the Council of Chalcedon, who occupied
the episcopal throne of Jerusalem between 451 and 453 CE. Furthermore,
the other texts attributed to Theodosius in Coptic, i.e. the two Encomia and
Miracula of St. George (BHO 316-319; CPG 6715; clavis coptica 0388)
and of St. Victor (BHO 1244; clavis coptica 0389), share some literary
commonalities and formulaic expressions with the encomium on Stephen5.
However, an unexpected discovery rescinds my proposal. During a
research trip in November 2018 in Ann Arbor, I identified in the Univer-
sity of Michigan Papyrus Collection yet another fragment of the same
White Monastery codex, which joins the aforementioned Parisinus and
Berolinensis. The Michigan fragment is kept together with hundreds of
other scraps, mostly from White Monastery manuscripts, in a folder in-
ventoried 4969.1/46. Given that the fragment does not have a separate call
number, I will refer to it as a sine numero.
Here is a reconstruction of the title of the encomium on Stephen the
Protomartyr based on the three joint fragments that I have identified until
now:
േ 9ĿʼnĩĥĵőĹ;ijÃƹ9ĿĻേĩġƕŇġʼnĿƕേĻÁ;ƝƹijÃŁƙġĥijÃĿŅേ
േ 9ġŁġേijÃő;ƙƹġĻĻ9įŅേŁġŃō;įƹ9ĩŁijŅ;ĵĿŁĿŅേĻÁıijÃേ
േ 9ĩķįŨ;േĩŁġıƹ9ķĿŋĿ;ŃƹĿŅƹേ9ĩŇĿʼnġġģ;േŁġŃōįħijÃേ
േ 9ġĵĿ;ĻƹĿŅേġŁġേ9ŅŇĩ;ŋƹġĻĿŅേŁƹŃƹĹÁŇĩijÃŁĿķijÃŅേ
5േ 9ĻÁĿ;ʼnőŇേıijÃĩķįĹƹ9¨േĩġ;ƕŇġʼnĿേĻÁĻÁƝĿĹേĹĻÁേ

5
The same conclusion concerning the authorship of the text has been reached by D.
LABADIE, A Newly Attributed Coptic Encomium on Saint Stephen (BHO 1093), in Studia Pa-
tristica. Vol. 92: Papers Presented at the Seventeenth International Conference on Patristic
Studies Held in Oxford 2015. Vol. 18: Liturgica and Tractatus Symboli, Orientalia, Critica et
Philologica, Historica, ed. M. VINZENT, Leuven – Paris – Bristol (CT), 2017, pp. 187-193; ID.,
L’invention du protomartyr Étienne: sainteté, pouvoir et controverse dans l’Antiquité (Ier-VIe s.)
(PhD dissertation; Paris, ÉPHÉ, 2017), esp. pp. 585-609.
6
On this mass of fragments, mostly of small size, see E. M. HUSSELMAN, The Collection of
Papyri, in Coptic Texts in the University of Michigan Collection, ed. W. H. WORRELL (= Uni-
versity of Michigan Humanistic Series, 46), Ann Arbor – London, 1942, pp. 1-22, here 5; ID., The
Martyrdom of Cyriacus and Julitta in Coptic, in Journal of the American Research Center in
Egypt, 4 (1965), pp. 79-86, here 79 n. 4.
60 A. SUCIU

േ 9ĻÁ;ƓŁįŃĩേĻÁŇġŁ9ĻĿʼnŇ;ĩƹേġġʼnേĩģĿķേƙijÃŇĿƹĿƹേ
േ 9ŇƕÁ;¨േĻÁŇġƕŇġʼnĩƹേ9Ł;ijƹÃĩĥĵőĹijÃĿĻേħĩേĹÁേ
േ 9Łĩ;ƙƹĿƹĿƹʼnേĹÁŁ
ƹ ƹĩƕŃÁŁĹƹĩƹĩʼnĩേĩŇĿʼnġġģേĩŇĩേ
േ 9ŅĿʼnേƛĿʼnŇġ;Ņƹĩേƹ ŁĩേĹÁŁĩģĿŇേŁġőƹŁĩേĩŃĩേ
10േ 9ŇŁĿķijŅേŇįŃŅÁ;േŅƹĿĿ ƹ ƹ9ʼn;ƙƹേĩƙĿʼnĻേĩŁĩƕŇĿŁĿŅേ
േ 9ĩŇĿʼnġġģ¨േŁġijÃേĻÁŇġʼn;ĵƹĿŇƕÁേĻġƕ¨േƙĻÁĿʼnĩijÃേ
േ 9ŃįĻįേĻÁŇĩŁĻĿʼnŇĩ¨;േƙġĹįŨേ
േ
“[An encomium that was delivered by] the holy [Apa Jo]hn, the [Arch]-
bishop of Je[rusalem], on the [holy] vict[orious] Archdeacon Apa [Ste]-
phen, the citizen of the same city, Jerusalem. He delivered (it) on the
mighty deeds and wonders that [God] made through [him]. He delivered
[this] encomium on [the] day [of] his holy commemoration, which is [the
26th] of the month Paope7, while [the entire city] was gathered in his [holy]
sanctuary, [the one that was] built for him. In the [peace of God], Amen”.േ
The incipit of the text is recoverable on the lost papyrus fragment tran-
scribed by Thompson: ĿʼnĹĩേ ġķįıĿ9Ņേ Łĩേ ŁƓġƛĩേ ĻÁŇĩŁ;ĩĻŅőŇįŃേ ĩƕőƹ9Ɠേ
ĩģĿķേ ĻÁĻĩƕ;ĹġıįŇįŅ¨േ ƛĩേ ĩ9ŃƓġĻĿʼnġേ ħij;ġĵĿĻĩijേ ĻġijÃേ Łġĩ9ijÃőŇേ ĻġŇġijĿƕ¨;േ
(“Verily, true [is the word that] our Savior [is crying out to his] disciples:
‘[If someone] serves me, my [Father will honor him]’”)8.
As can be observed, the Michigan fragment features a string of letters
that allows us to confidently restore the name of the author to whom the
text was attributed: John, the archbishop of Jerusalem. This undoubtedly
refers to John II, who occupied the episcopal see of Jerusalem after the
death of Cyril, between 387 and 417 CE. It is well known that, according
to the Revelatio sancti Stephani (BHG 1648x-z; BHL 7850-7856h), the re-
covery of the relics of Stephen the Protomartyr was made by the priest
Lucian in December 415 CE under John’s episcopacy, some twenty miles
from Jerusalem, in Caphar Gamala. Furthermore, Michel van Esbroeck
even suggested that the letter of Lucian was composed at the request of
John, who used the invention of the saint’s relics in his ecclesiastical bat-
tles9.

7
This date corresponds to October 23 of the Julian calendar. Other Coptic literary docu-
ments confirm that the martyrdom of Stephen the Protomartyr was commemorated in Upper
Egypt on Paope 26, see SUCIU, The Question of the Authorship… (above n. 3), pp. 290-292.
8
Ibid., p. 290. The incipit was accommodated by the first column of text on the recto of
the fragment Paris, BnF Copte 1317, f. 20, but this is currently lost.
9
M. VAN ESBROECK, Jean II de Jérusalem et les cultes de S. Étienne, de la Sainte-Sion et
de la Croix, in AB, 102 (1984), pp. 99-134. See also P. PEETERS, Orient et Byzance. Le tréfonds
oriental de l’hagiographie byzantine (= Subs. hag., 26), Brussels, 1950, pp. 53-58.
 THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE ENCOMIUM IN STEPHANUM 61

As I have already mentioned, the encomium on Stephen the Proto-

martyr has literary connections with two other hagiographic works ascribed
to Theodosius of Jerusalem in Coptic. Thus, whether the former text was
also composed by the same author or not, it can be regarded as a genuine
Coptic literary product. But why was it attributed to John of Jerusalem ?
While the Copto-Arabic synaxary commemorates John as a saint on Ba-
ounah 13, the encomium on Stephen the Protomartyr is the first writing
attributed to him which has been recovered in Coptic until now10. The
ascription of the text to John is seemingly based on a tradition concerning
the role played by the bishop of Jerusalem in the discovery of Stephen’s
tomb as depicted in the letter of Lucian. Nevertheless, although it is not a
genuine work of John of Jerusalem, the encomium represents an early
literary witness for the cult of Stephen the Protomartyr11.
Finally, the Michigan fragment demonstrates once more that even
small manuscript fragments which seem of little value can yield relevant
data for our knowledge of Coptic literature.

Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen Alin SUCIU

Friedländer Weg, 11
D – 37085 Göttingen

Résumé. Cet article considère l’attribution d’un éloge d’Étienne le protomartyr,

subsistant dans deux manuscrits sahidiques fragmentaires. L’éloge en question était
attribué à un évêque de Jérusalem, dont le nom n’apparaît cependant pas dans les
deux manuscrits existants. Suite à l’identification d’un nouveau fragment, conservé
dans la collection des papyri de l’Université du Michigan, l’A. démontre que cet
éloge était associé, à tort, à Jean II, évêque de Jérusalem entre 387 et 417.

10
R. BASSET, Le synaxaire arabe Jacobite (rédaction copte). Vol. 5: Les mois de Ba-
ounah, Abib, Mésoré et jours complémentaires (= Patrologia Orientalis, 17/3), Paris, 1923, pp.
562 [1104]-563 [1105].
11
On the early hagiographic literature pertaining to Stephen, see BOVON, The Dossier on
Stephen… (above n. 2); LABADIE, L’invention du protomartyr Étienne… (above n. 5).
62 A. SUCIU

Ill. 1: The title page of the Encomium on Stephen the Protomartyr.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan University Library sine numero; BERLIN, Staatsbibliothek
Ms. Or. Fol. 1614bis, fr. 3; PARIS, BnF Copte 1317, f. 20.
Photos by Alin Suciu and Bibliothèque nationale de France. Montage by Alin Suciu.
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