Category: AELAC

The annual meeting of the Association pour l’étude de la littérature apocryphe chrétienne (AELAC) will take place this year June 30 to July 2 at the Centre Jean Bosco in Lyon. The program has been posted to the AELAC web site and is reproduced below.

Friday, June 30

Réunion du comité de l’AELAC avec les responsables des différents projets éditoriaux.

20:15 Présentations.

20:30 Isabel Iribarren (Université de Strasbourg), Utilisations et fonctions des écrits apocryphes dans l’œuvre de Jean Gerson.

Saturday, July 1

9:00 Anne-Catherine Baudoin (ENS Paris) – Zbigniew Izydorczyk (University of Winnipeg), The Latin Versions of the Evangelium Nicodemi.

10:45 Brent Landau (The University of Texas at Austin), A Summary of Research on the Revelation of the Magi in Anticipation of the Forthcoming CCSA Edition.

14:45 Échange d’informations et discussion sur les projets en cours dans le domaine des littératures apocryphes.

15:30 Grigory Kessel (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Sinai Palimpsest Witnesses of the New Testament Apocrypha.

16:45 Paul-Hubert Poirier (Université Laval), Le témoignage du manuscrit de Trichur sur les Actes syriaques de Thomas.

18:00 Zbigniew Izydorczyk (University of Winnipeg), Evangelium Nicodemi : A Comprehensive Database of Latin Manuscripts.

20:30 Assemblée générale de l’AELAC.

Sunday, July 2

9:00 Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh (University College Cork), Recherches sur le Saltair na Rann.

10:45 Stephen J. Shoemaker (University of Oregon), The Coptic Homily on the Theotokos attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem: An Aberrant and Apologetic ‘Life’ of the Virgin from Late Antiquity.

The Association pour l’étude de la littérature apocryphe chrétienne (AELAC) has announced its programme for the 2013 meeting, which will take place June 29-July 1 in Dole, France. Here are the titles of the papers which will be presented this year:

Christoph Markschies, "Überlegungen zum Begriff 'christliche apokryphe Literatur.'"

Caitríona O'Dochartaigh, "L’Histoire de Thècle en irlandais."

Andrey Vinogradov, "Les Actes d'André et de Matthias et leur place dans la tradition apocryphe."

Stephen J. Davis, "The Childhood Deeds of Jesus in Arabic Christian and Muslim Encounter."

Stefan Hagel, "Présentation du logiciel 'Classical Text Editor.'"

Els Rose, "Editing the Virtutes apostolorum: Lectio improbabilior and other editorial principles tried on the Virtutes Simonis et Iudae."

Enrico Norelli, "Un chapitre du commentaire sur l’Apocalypse de Pierre."

The Association pour l’étude de la littérature apocryphe chrétienne and the Institut romand des sciences bibliques at Université de Lausanne are partnering for an international colloquium on "The Life of Adam and Eve and Adamic Traditions." The colloquium will take place January 7-10, 2014. To participate, see HERE for the official call for papers.

Reposted from Alin Suciu's blog (simply because he got to it first and saves me from retyping it):

The Association pour l’étude de la littérature apocryphe chrétienne (AELAC) has announced on its website the programme for the 2012 meeting, which will take place June 28-30 in Dole, France. Here are the titles of the papers which will be presented this year:

Janet E. SPITTLER, Μανθ?νεις πρ?ς τ?νας ε?ρηται τ? ε?ρημ?να: Metalepsis in the Acts of Andrew.

Pierre-Yves LAMBERT, Histoire évangélique en irlandais.

Cornelia B. HORN, Apocrypha and Isra’iliyyat. The Life of Jesus in some early islamic authors.

Jean-Michel ROESSLI, La réception des Oracles sibyllins chez quelques auteurs anglais des XVII^e et XVIII^e siècles.

Alin SUCIU, Preliminary Report on Some New Coptic Apocryphal Fragments.

Xavier LEQUEUX, Origine et développements de la BHG ou la quête du document hagiographique.

Enrico NORELLI, Les premières traditions sur la Dormition de Marie comme catalyseurs de formes très anciennes de réflexion théologique et christologique.

Lydie LANSARD, L’Èvangile de Gamaliel.

More information about the Réunion de l’AELAC HERE.

The 2010 réunion annuelle de l’Association pour l’étude de la literature apocryphe chrétienne (AELAC) takes place June 24-26th. Here are the papers to be presented:

Jane Baun, “The Apocalypse of the Theotokos: Some Avenues of Approach.”

Christoph Markschies, "Das Evangelium der 12 Apostel. Beobachtungen im Rahmen der Arbeit am neuen Hennecke zu diesem und zuanderen apokryph gewordenen Texten.”

Alessandro Bausi, “Les listes des apôtres et disciples en éthiopien.”

Nicole Volmering, “The Seven Heavens in the Old English Tradition.”

Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh, “The Relationship between the Tenga Bithnua and the Irish Seven Heavens Texts.”

Charlotte Touati, “Les sept cieux de l'ascète. Témoignages égyptiens du IIIe s. ap. J.-C.”

Christophe Guignard, “Les listes grecques d’apôtres et de disciples”

André Gagné, “Jésus, la lumière et le Père vivant (EvTh 15; 50; 77). Existe-t-il des traces d'une christologie modaliste dans l’Évangile selon Thomas?”

Sever Voicu, “A popos de la tradition latine des Paidika Iesou.”

Valentina Calzolari, “Les Actes de Thècle arméniens.”

This year’s AELAC (Association pour l’étude de la literature apocryphe chrétienne) réunion took place in Dole, France June 26-28. The association was formed by French and Swiss scholars in 1981 and is responsible for a well-regarded line of critical editions (Corpus Christianorum, Series Apocryphorum), the journal Apocrypha, the Pleiades Apocrypha Collection Études apocryphes chrétiens, and a series of French pocketbook editions of individual texts (La collection de poche apocryphes). The membership of the group has become increasingly international over the years and now includes scholars from across Europe, Russia, and North America. The annual meetings are wonderful opportunities to meet scholars in the field, engage in collaborative endeavours, and hear about new developments in the study of the texts.

Many of the presenters this year were North American, which was somewhat comforting to those of us who do not speak French. Several of the papers dealt with narratives of Jesus’ childhood and infancy, a topic of particular interest to me. Here are some of the highlights of the réunion.

Andrei Vinogradov presented a study of the Acts of Andrew and Matthaias. What was interesting from my perspective was that he informed me later of a Russian manuscript of the text which features a recital of events from Jesus’ life including four stories from the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. He promised to send me a copy of his edition of the manuscript. I look forward to seeing where it fits into the Greek tradition of the text.…

The program for this year’s réunion annuelle de l’AELAC (Association pour l’étude de la littérature apocryphe chrétienne) taking place June 26-28 has been posted on the association’s web site. You can access it HERE.