Dan Batovici, PhD

Dan Batovici is the recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant 2025 for the CLAIM project "Secondary Pseudepigraphy," and also the recipient of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) START Award 2024 for the team project GenAut | Generative Authority. 

Before moving to Vienna in 2024 to start the GenAut project, Dan was a research fellow and instructor at KU Leuven, where he also earned his PhD in 2015. He also held various Visiting Fellowships at the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, Dumbarton Oaks, Oxford, Cambridge, and most recently Princeton. 

Dan is co-hosting the Text and Transmission Research Seminar (TeTra), which hosts online papers from current research projects on various manuscript cultures and historical contexts (check out the Youtube channel), and co-editor of Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, an on-line platform for book reviews in these fields.

• FWF START Award 2024

Project funded by the FWF (2024-2029).

• 1Clement.VMR: A Digital Edition of All Witnesses of First Clement

A collaboration with David Downs.

• The “Apostolic Fathers” in Coptic, Syriac, and Armenian

Project funded by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and UCLouvain (2020-2024)

• Novum Testamentum Patristicum | 1 Peter 2:11-5:14

Project funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) and KU Leuven Research Council (2015–2019).

Edited volumes

D. Batovici and Lara Sels (eds.), Ignatius of Antioch in Translation: New Findings in Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, and Slavonic | Le Muséon 136.1-2 (2023).

Dan Batovici and Jos Verheyden (eds.), Versions of the Early Christian Past: Ancient Translations of the Apostolic Fathers | Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 98.3 (2022).

Madalina Toca and Dan Batovici (eds.), Caught in Translation: Studies on Versions of Late Antique Christian Literature | Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity 17 (Brill 2020).

Journal articles

Dan Batovici and Madalina Toca, “The Syriac Ignatian Canons: A Critical Edition,” Le Muséon 136.1-2 (2023) 1-37.

D. Batovici, “The Displaced Endings of the Gospel of Mark in Armenian Biblical Manuscripts,” COMSt Bulletin 8.2 (2022) 603-623.

D. Batovici, “Apostolic by Proxy: Corpora, editiones minores, and Network of Texts,” Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 98.3 (2022) 503-524.

Book chapters

D. Batovici, “The "Apostolic Fathers" in Coptic: Problems and Overview,” in I. Miroshnikov (ed.), Parabiblica Coptica (Parabiblica 3; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023), 103-126.

D. Batovici, “The Reception of the Gospel of Peter in Late Antiquity,” in H.J. de Jonge, C. Tuckett, J.S. Kloppenborg, M. Grundeken (eds.), The Gospels and Their Receptions: Festschrift Joseph Verheyden (BETL 330; Leuven: Peeters, 2022), 437-452.

D. Batovici, “Authority, Fragmentation, Dilution: Experiencing an Apocalyptic Text in Late Antiquity,” in A. Kim Harkins and H.O. Maier (eds.), Experiencing the Shepherd of Hermas (Ekstasis 10; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022), 215-33.

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