Discourse on Mary Theotokos, describing her human origin and death
· Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem
· Coptic version of uncertain date (MS MERC.AL); attribution to Cyril of Jerusalem (d. 386)…
· homily
Coptic · domain: homilies · researched 2026-11-13
partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.
Why this is in the register
Budge 1915 contents leaf: 'II. The Discourse on Mary Theotokos by Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem, describing her human origin and death. Summary lxxvi / Coptic Text 49 / Translation 626' (https://archive.org/details/miscellaneouscop00budguoft); the English is pp. 626-651 and is the only one located. HOLLIS 'Cyril of Jerusalem Coptic Mary Theotokos' returns 3 records - a Byzantine studies essay collection, the Coptic-only Milan volume 'Omelie copte sulla Passione, sulla Croce e sulla Vergine' (1980) and an archival record - none a translation of this homily (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Cyril%20of%20Jerusalem%20Coptic%20Mary%20Theotokos&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Shoemaker's standard English corpus of Dormition narratives (S. J. Shoemaker, Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption, OUP 2002) translates only one Sahidic Coptic Dormition homily in its appendix, that attributed to Evodius of Rome (appendix list: A Liber Requiei, B earliest Greek narrative, C Syriac palimpsest, D Ethiopic Six Books, E Sahidic Coptic homily attributed to Evodius, F Jacob of Serug, G Palm parallels - https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ancient%20traditions%20of%20the%20Virgin%20Mary%27s%20dormition%20and%20assumption&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 this homily is not among them.
No SCRIPTORIUM TEI and no machine-readable Coptic text, so extent is left null (Budge's Coptic text runs pp. 49-73). It is a Dormition narrative, i.e. the Coptic witness to a tradition better known from Greek, Syriac and Ethiopic; the only English is Budge's and it is not in Shoemaker's standard translation corpus.
Broek, R. van den. "Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem On the life and the Passion of Christ : a Coptic apocryphon." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990135276390203941
"Early Christian authors on Samaritans and Samaritanism : texts, translations, and commentary." Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2002. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990090145640203941
"Egeria's travels to the Holy Land." Jerusalem ; Ariel Pub. House : Warminster, England ; Aris & Phillips, 1981. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990001936390203941
Kontouma, Vassa. "John of Damascus : new studies on his life and works." Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Variorum, [2015]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990145176740203941
Cite: Tergwame, “Discourse on Mary Theotokos, describing her human origin and death”
(coptic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-pseudo-cyril-jerusalem-mary