| Alin Suciu | |
| Birth Date: | 19 May 1978 |
| Birth Place: | Oradea, Romania |
| Workplaces: | Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
| Alma Mater: | Université Laval, Quebec |
| Academic Advisors: | Paul-Hubert Poirier |
Alin Suciu is a Romanian coptologist and papyrologist. He is a Senior Researcher at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a Docent in Early Christian Literature and Coptic Christianity at the Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki.[1]
Suciu holds a PhD degree in Religious Studies from Université Laval, Québec. He has published articles on ancient manuscripts and biblical, patristic, and apocryphal texts in the Journal of Biblical Literature, Journal of Semitic Studies, Harvard Theological Review, Vigiliae Christianae, Le Muséon, and elsewhere. He maintains a scholarly blog entitled Patristics, Apocrypha, Coptic Literature and Manuscripts.[2]
Suciu is a member of the Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari (CMCL), an international project aimed at the codicological reconstruction of the fragmentary Sahidic manuscripts from the library of the White Monastery, located in the vicinity of Sohag in Upper Egypt.[3] The CMCL project is currently hosted by the Hiob Ludolf Center for Ethiopian Studies in Hamburg, Germany.[4]
In the debate over the authenticity of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife papyrus, Suciu pointed out that there are strong arguments to suggest that the fragment is a modern forgery.[5]
He is the author of The Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon: A Coptic Apostolic Memoir (WUNT I, 370; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017), which focuses on a Coptic apocryphal text previously known as the Gospel of the Savior. Suciu argues that the Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon is one of numerous "apostolic memoirs," a peculiar genre of Coptic literature that consists of writings purportedly written by the apostles, often embedded in sermons attributed to famous church fathers.
In 2022, he published a book in Romanian entitled Monahul și scribul: Creștinismul egiptean între idealul monahal și cultura scrisă (Studii și documente de istorie a religiilor, 6; Bucharest: Spandugino, 2022).