Volume Index

Volume 2

Issue 1

Introduction

Introduction: Letter from the General Editor
By George A. Kiraz

Articles

Ephrem’’s Madroshe and the Syrian Orthodox Beth Gazo: A Loose, but Fascinating, Affinity
By Gregorios Y. Ibrahim and George A. Kiraz
St. Ephrem in the Eyes of Later Syriac Liturgical Tradition
By Sebastian P. Brock
The Influence of Ephraim the Syrian
By Andrew Palmer
Knowledge of Ephraim’’s Writings in the Merovingian and Carolingian Age
By David Ganz
Ephrem’’s Ideas on Singleness
By Thomas Kathanar Koonammakkal
““Making Church of England Poetical”” Ephraim and the Oxford Movement
By Geoffrey Rowell
A Ballad about Saint Andrew and the Cannibals, Attributed to Saint Ephraim
By Michel Van Esbroeck, S.J.
The Ephremic Tradition and the Theology of the Environment
By Robert Murray, S.J.

Reports

4th World Syriac Conference: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute
By David G. K. Taylor
Conference Report: The Third Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity and Islam
By Sidney H. Griffith
Second Symposium Syro-Arabicum
By Herman Teule

Reviews

Review of:Targum and Peshitta. South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism
By Konrad D. Jenner
Classical Syriac. A Basic Grammar with a Chrestomathy
By Jan Joosten
Der Ktaba d-Durrasa (Ktaba d-Ma/wata) des Elija von Anbar. Memra I-III
By Hubert Kaufhold

Announcements

Redefining Christian Identity: Christian Cultural Strategies Since the Coming of Islam
By Heleen L. Murre-Van Den Berg
Syriac Symposium III: Aramaic Heritage of Syria
By Joseph P. Amar
Forthcoming Conferences: The New English Annotated Translation of the Syriac Bible (NEATSB)
By Konrad D. Jenner
Mar Michael the Syrian and the Historiography of the Medieval Near East: 1––8 October 1999, Aleppo, Syria
By Gregorios Y. Ibrahim

Issue 2

Articles

The Patriarchs of the Church of the East from the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
By Heleen L. Murre-Van Den Berg
An Account of Gregory Bar Hebraeus Abu Al-Faraj and His Relations with the Mongols of Persia
By Gregory Lane
A Syriac Letter on Papyrus: P.Berol.INV.8285
By Sebastian P. Brock
Deir Al-Surian (Egypt): Its Wall-Paintings, Wall-Texts, and Manuscripts
By Karel C. Innemée
The Samuel Manuscript of Jacob of Edessa: A Study in Its Underlying Textual Traditions
By David J. Lane
The Conservation of Manuscripts in the Library of Deir Al-Surian: First Notes
By Elizabeth Sobczynski
Syriac Inscriptions in Deir Al-Surian: Some reflections on their Writers and Readers
By Lucas Van Rompay

Short Articles

The Publications of the St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute (SEERI)
By David G. K. Taylor

Reports

The Assyrian Experience: Sources for the Study of the 19th and 20th centuries
By Michael Hopper
Semitic Linguistics: The State of the Art at the turn of the Twenty-First Century
By Shlomo Izre'el
Redefining Christian Identity: Christian Cultural Strategies Since the Coming of Islam
By J.J. Van Ginkel
Forthcoming Conferences: The New English Annotated Translation of the Syriac Bible (NEATSB)
By Konrad D. Jenner
ARAM Fourteenth Conference: Antioch and Edessa
By Bas Ter Haar Romeny
Syriac Symposium III: Aramaic Heritage of Syria
By Monica J. Blanchard

Reviews

From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East
By Susan A. Harvey
The Book of Numbers in Neo-Aramaic in the Dialect of the Jewish Community of Zakho
By Geoffrey Khan
Chronicles, Vol. IV, 2 of The Old Testament in Syriac According to the Peshitta Version
By Andreas Juckel