Volume Index

Volume 11

Issue 1

Articles

Expectations of the End in Early Syriac Christianity
By Ute Possekel
Jonah’s Oar Christian Typology in Jacob of Serug’s Mēmrā 122 on Jonah†
By Robert A. Kitchen
Coptic-Syriac Relations beyond Dogmatic Rhetoric
By Lois Farag

Bibliographies

Recent Books on Syriac Topics
By Sebastian P. Brock

Reports

International Syriac Language Project Ljubljana, Slovenia. July 2007
By Terry Turner
The State of Preservation of the Byzantine Mosaics of the Saint Gabriel Monastery of Qartamin, Tur Abdin (South-West Turkey)

Reviews

Martin Zammit, ‘Enbe men Karmo Suryoyo (Bunches of Grapes from the Syriac Vineyard): A Syriac Chrestomathy (Gorgias Press: Piscataway, NJ, 2006) Pp. xii + 206. Hardback, $ 85.00.Anonymous, The Book of Crumbs: An Anthology of Syriac Texts. (Gorgias Press: Piscataway, NJ, 2006) Pp. x + 387. Hardback, $ 102.00.
By Kristian S. Heal
Jerome Alan Lund, The Book of the Laws of the Countries, A Dialogue on Free Will Versus Fate: A Key-Word-in-Context Concordance (Gorgias Press: Piscataway, NJ, 2007) Pp. xiii + 236. Hardback, $ 128.00.
By Kristian S. Heal
P.S.F van Keulen and W.Th. van Peursen, eds., Corpus Linguistics and Textual History: A Computer-Assisted Interdisciplinary Approach to the Peshitta, Koninklijke Van Gorcum BV, 2006
By Deryle Lonsdale
W.Th. van Peursen and R.B. ter Haar Romeny eds., Text, translation, and Tradition: Studies on the Peshitta and its Use in the Syriac Tradition Presented to Konrad D. Jenner on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. MPIL 14; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2006. Pp. xiv + 266. ISBN-13: 978 90 04 15300 4; ISBN-10: 90 04 15300 4
By Craig E. Morrison
Review of: Sebastian Brock, Fire from Heaven: Studies in Syriac Theology and Liturgy
By David G. K. Taylor

Announcements

Xth Syriac Symposium VIIIth Conference of Christian Arabic Studies Granada 22-27 September 2008
By Ignacio Carbajosa
Symposium on Jacob of Sarug and His Times Studies in Sixth Century Syriac Christianity
‘Antioch’: A New Initiative for the Study of the Rum Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch
By Sebastian P. Brock

Issue 2

Articles

Syriac Manuscripts in New York Public Library
By Iskander Bcheiry
Early Christian Angelomorphic Pneumatology: Aphrahat the Persian Sage
By Bogdan G. Bucur
John of Damascus and the Church in Syria in the Umayyad Era: The Intellectual and Cultural Milieu of Orthodox Christians in the World of Islam
By Sidney H. Griffith

Reviews

J. F. Coakley, The Typography of Syriac: A Historical Catalogue of Printing Types, 1537-1958 (New Castle, DE, and London: Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 2006). Pp. xxxiv + 272. ISBN: 1-58456-192-0
By Carl W. Griffin

Andrzej Uciecha, Ascetyczna nauka w "Mowach" Afrahata [= Ascetic teaching in Aphrahat's "Expositions"], (Studia i Materialy Wydzialu Teologicznego Uniwesytetu Slaskiego w Katowicach, Nr 3), Katowice: Ksiegarnia Sw. Jacka, 2002, 192 pp.
By Witold Witakowski
Research on the Church of the East in China and Central Asia
Mor Jacob of Edessa Symposium
Marthe Mahieu-De Praetere, Kurisumala - Francis Mahieu Acharya: a Pioneer of Christian Monasticiam in India (trans.Van Winkle, Susan) Pp. xv + 394, Paperback; a) Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2007, ISBN 978-0-87907-614-6, $79.95; b) Asian Trading Corporation, Bangalore/ Sopanam, Kottayam, India, 2008, ISBN 81-7086-470-4, IR 200.
By Bernard Kilroy
Wilhelm Baum and Dietmar W. Winkler. The Church of the East: A Concise History. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, xii + 204 pp; hardcover. $130.
By Joel Walker
Jacob of Sarug and His Times: Studies in Sixth Century Syriac Christianity
Sebastian P. Brock & George A. Kiraz, Ephrem the Syrian Select Poems Vocalized Syriac text with English translation, introduction, and notes. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University 2006 xvi + 279 pp. $39.95. ISBN-13: 978-0-934893-65-7, ISBN-10: 0-934893-65-9.
By Paul S. Russell