Just published:
- “Canons from Epistles, Epistles as Canons: The Letter from Italy to the Bishops of the East (= Basil of Caesarea’s Letter 217) and the Epistles of Ignatius of Antioch in West Syriac Canonical Collections,” Annales Historiae Conciliorum 53.1 (2023 [2024]) 87-104.
Abstract:
The compositional dynamic of canonical collections is marked by an interesting phenome¬non of expanding a basic group of texts initially consisting of (selections of) pseudo-apos¬tolic literature and canons, mostly derived from fourth-century synods, with writings of Greek patristic literature translated into Syriac and, later, with literature composed in Syriac as well. By looking at four canonical collections from the eighth–ninth century (Mardin, The Church of the Forty Martyrs mss. 309 and 310, Vat. syr. 560 A, and Paris, BnF syr. 62), this paper aims to examine the way in which patristic epistolary works were introduced in this expansion process in order to enhance the synodal canons and how such works func¬tioned as normative literature in the newly enlarged canonical collections.
This is part of a thematic issue of AHC:
Madalina Toca 
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