Epistulae Pilati et Herodis
Standard abbreviation: Ep. Pil. Herod, Ep. Herod Pil.
Other titles: none
Clavis numbers: ECCA 785; CANT 67
Category: Pilate Cycle
Related literature: Epistles of Pilate and Theodore
Status: unassigned
Citing this resource (using Chicago Manual of Style):
1. SUMMARY
Named Historical Figures and Characters:
Geographical Locations:
2. RESOURCES
2.1 Web Sites and Other Online Resources
Alcock, Anthony. “Texts relating to the trial and crucifixion of Jesus.” academia.edu (English translation of Rahmani’s Syriac edition).
3. BIBLIOGRAPHY
3.1 Manuscripts and Editions
3.1.1 Greek (BHG 779q)
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 929, pp. 63–71 (15th cent.)
Ehrman, Bart D. and Zlatko Pleše, The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 (reproduction of James’s edition with facing English translation, pp. 517–27).
James, Montague Rhodes. Apocrypha Anecdota 2. TS 5.1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1897 (edition based on Paris, BnF, gr. 929, pp. 66–70).
3.1.2 Syriac
A Charfeh, Syrian-Catholic Patriarchate, Fonds. Patr. 79 (Sony 256), fols. 9v–11r (1901 from a 14th cent. manuscript)
B Charfeh, Syrian-Catholic Patriarchate, Fonds. Patr. 87 (Sony 261), fols. 84v–87r (1907 from an 8th cent. manuscript)
C Charfeh, Syrian-Catholic Patriarchate, Fonds. Patr. 86 (Sony 224), pp. 148 (ca. 1908 from a manuscript dated 1609) ~ Epistle of Herod to Pilate only
H Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard Houghton Library, Syr. 99, fols. 93v–96v (1899)
L London, British Library, Add. 14609, fols. 120r–122r (6th/7th cent.)
M Edgbaston, University of Birmingham, Mingana Syr. 4, fols. 52r–53v (1895)
S Mount Sinai, Monē tēs Hagias Aikaterinēs, syr. 82, fols. 15v–17r (1088/1089 cent.)
Mardin, Dayr al-Zaʿfarān, 203 fols. 80r–82v (20th cent.)
Midyat, Dayro d-Mor Gabriel, 21, pp. 77–80 (1971)
Midyat, Mar Barṣawmo Library, 16, pp. 138–142 (1972)
Desreumaux, Alain J. “De quelques pièces du dossier syriaque sur Pilate: De la correspondance byzantine à la correspondance médiévale.” Pages 619–34 in Gnose et manichéisme: Entre les oasis d’Égypte et la Route de la Soie: Hommage à Jean-Daniel Dubois. Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses 176. Edited by Anna Van den Kerchove and Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016 (edition, pp. 629–32, and French translation, pp. 632–34, based on ABCHLMS).
Rahmani, Ignatius E., ed. Studia Syriaca, seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis: Apocryphi hypomnemata Domini Nostri, seu, Acta Pilati. 5 vols. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1908
(text from Ra vol. 2:21; Latin translation vol. 2:38).
Wright, William. Contributions to the Apocryphal Literature of the New Testament. London: Williams & Norgate, 1865 (edition based on London, BL Add. 14609, pp. 19–24, with English translation, pp. 12–17).
3.2 Modern Translations
3.2.1 English
Ehrman, Bart D. and Zlatko Pleše, The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 ((reproduction of James’s edition with facing English translation, pp. 517–27), pp. 517–27).
James, Montague Rhodes. Apocrypha Anecdota 2. TS 5.1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1897 (reprint of Wright’s translation of L, pp. 71–75).
Wright, William. Contributions to the Apocryphal Literature of the New Testament. London: Williams & Norgate, 1865 (edition based on L, pp. 19–24, with English translation, pp. 12–17).
3.2.2 French
Desreumaux, Alain J. “De quelques pièces du dossier syriaque sur Pilate: De la correspondance byzantine à la correspondance médiévale.” Pages 619–34 in Gnose et manichéisme: Entre les oasis d’Égypte et la Route de la Soie: Hommage à Jean-Daniel Dubois. Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses 176. Edited by Anna Van den Kerchove and Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016 (French translation of the reconstructed archetype, pp. 632–33, and the hyparchetype of the modern manuscripts ABCHM, pp. 633–34).
3.2.3 Italian
Erbetta, Mario. Gli apocrifi del Nuovo Testamento. 3 vols. Italy: Marietti, 1975–1981 (translation of Paris, BnF, gr. 929, 3:127–29).
Moraldi, Luigi. Apocrifi del Nuovo Testamento. 2 vols. Classici delle religioni, Sezione quarta, La religione cattolica 24. Turin: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, 1971 (translation of Paris, BnF, gr. 929, 1:703–706).
3.2.4 Spanish
De Santos Otero, Aurelio. Los Evangelios Apócrifos. Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Christianos, 19561, 19886 (edition and translation of Paris, BnF, gr. 929, pp. 479–83).
3.3 General Works