Volume Index

Volume 10

Issue 1

Introduction

Letter from the General Editor
By George A. Kiraz

In Memoriam

William L. Petersen (1950-2006)
By George A. Kiraz

Articles

Syriac Studies: The Challenges of the Coming Decade
By Lucas Van Rompay
Forty Years of Syriac Computing
By George A. Kiraz
The Contribution of Departed Syriacists, 1997-2006†
By Sebastian P. Brock

Bibliographies

Recent Books on Syriac Topics
By Sebastian P. Brock

Reviews

Erbes, Johann E., The Peshitta and the Versions: A Study of the Peshitta Variants in Joshua 1-5 in Relation to Their Equivalents in the Ancient Versions (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Semitica Upsaliensia 16; Uppsala: Uppsala University Library, 1999).
By Craig E. Morrison
Joel Thomas Walker, The legend of Mar Qardagh. Narrative and Christian heroism in late antique Iraq. [The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, vol. 40. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 2006; ISBN 0-520-24578-4.] xviii + 345 pp; hardcover.
By Andrew Palmer
Jobst Reller and Martin Tamcke, eds. Trinitäts- und Christusdogma. Ihre Bedeutung für Beten und Handeln der Kirche. Festschrift für Jouko Martikainen. Studien zur Orientalischen Kirchengeschichte 12. Münster, Hamburg, and London: LIT-Verlag, 2001. Pp. 265. ISBN 3-8258-5278-4. Paperback. Euros 20.90.
By Cornelia B. Horn
Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Scenting Salvation. Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California, 2006.
By Robert Doran
Suha Rassam, Christianity in Iraq: Its Origins and Development to the Present Day. Leominster, UK: Gracewing, 2005. xxix, 203 p., [14] p. of plates, 3 maps. Bibliography: p. [198]-203. ISBN 0852446330 £9.99; Distributed in the US by Gorgias Press, $35.00.
By Jan Weryho

Announcements

Syriac Studies Symposium V Syriac as a Bridge Culture
Jacob of Sarug in English Translation
The 3rd Annual Archbishop Iakovos Graduate Students Conference in Patristic Studies
The Middle East Between Rome and Persia
Dorushe Annual Graduate Student Conference on Syriac Studies

Issue 2

Dorushe Conference 2007: April 14-15, 2007
By Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent
Adam H. Becker, Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom. The School of Nisibis and Christian Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2006, Series Divination, pp. xvi + 298, ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-3934-8; ISBN-10: 0-8122-3934-2.
By Ilaria Ramelli
150 Years of Syriac Studies at the University of Toronto
By Amir Harrak

By Lucas Van Rompay
The BYU-CUA Syriac Studies Reference Library: A Final Report
By Carl W. Griffin and Kristian S. Heal
Isaac Armalet, Catalogue of the Syriac and Arabic Manuscripts at the Patriarchal Library of Charfet [Gorgias Press 2006; ISBN 1-59333-365-X] xii*, [iv], 15, 526, [ii], 12, 14, [vi]pp; hardcover.
By David G. K. Taylor
The 6th Italian Meeting on Syriac Christianity VI Incontro sull’Oriente Cristiano di tradizione siriaca
The Literary Production of Melkites in the pre-Ottoman Era (AD 750-1516)
Bruce Manning Metzger (1914-2007)
By Ian Torrance
Kthobonoyo Syriac: Some Observations and Remarks
By George A. Kiraz
Syriac Language and Script in a Chinese Setting: Nestorian Inscriptions from Quanzhou, China†
By Majella Franzmann
Sebastian P. Brock, An Introduction to Syriac Studies (revised second edition). (Gorgias Handbooks 4; Gorgias Press: Piscataway, NJ, 2006) Pp. ix + 78. Paperback, $29.00.
By Robert A. Kitchen
Sebastian P. Brock, The Wisdom of St. Isaac of Nineveh. (Texts From Christian Late Antiquity 1; Gorgias Press: Piscataway, NJ, 2006) Pp. xx + 42. Paperback, $24.00.
By Robert A. Kitchen
Vth Syriac Symposium
The Edessan Milieu and the Birth of Syriac†
By John F. Healey