REVIEW OF IBRAHIM SAWEROS, ANOTHER ATHANASIUS: FOUR SAHIDIC HOMILIES ATTRIBUTED TO ST. ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA, INTRODUCTION, EDITIONS, TRANSLATIONS. PH.D DISSERTATION, LEIDEN UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS, 2016 [XIII + 321 PAGES]

Abstract

The book deals with four unpublished homilies written in Sahidic Coptic and falselyattributed to Athanasius, the famous Archbishop of Alexandria (328–373). Thesepseudepigraphic texts belong to the Ḥāmūlī find discovered near al-Fayyūm in 1910and are now preserved in the Morgan Library in New York (USA). The first homily isOn Michael and Gabriel, the Archangels from codex M602 (ff. 89r–98r). The secondtext occurs in the same codex (ff. 98v–110v) and has the title of “On Murder andGreed and on Michael”, the Archangel. The third text, On Luke 11: 5–9, is found incodex M577 (ff. 37v–49v). The last homily is On Pentecost which occupies folios118v–140v of codex M595.