The Coptic Reception of the Homilies on the Epistle to the Hebrews by John Chrysostom (CPG 4440), with Some Notes on the Composition of MONB.CR (= CLM 325): A Survey and New Textual Identifications

The present article aims at providing a fresh review of the Coptic reception of the Homilies on the Epistle to the Hebrews by John Chrysostom. Along with an exhaustive analysis of the scholarly contribution on such a relevant topic, new textual identifications are offered, with the correlative goal to give an updated codicological and content-ori- ented synoptic reconstruction of MONB.CR, the main Coptic testimony of Chrysostom’s homilies On Hebrews. This significant manuscript is analysed in comparison with other Coptic witnesses entirely or almost entirely consisting of Chrysostom’s works. Finally, some textual and historical remarks on the Coptic rewritings of Greek homilies and homiletic corpora supplement the contribution, in order to retrace the methods and the boundaries of these interpolatory processes.