Volume Index

Volume 6

Issue 1

Articles

Syriac Additions to Anderson: The Garden of Eden in the Book of Steps and Philoxenus of Mabbug
By Robert A. Kitchen
Observations on Bar cEbroyo's Marine Geography
By Hidemi Takahashi
A Re-examination of Codex Phillipps 1388
By Andreas Juckel
The Works attributed to Isaac of Antioch: A[nother] Preliminary Checklist
By Edward G. Mathews, Jr.

Bibliographies

Recent Books on Syriac Topics
By Sebastian P. Brock

Reviews

Jan-Eric Steppa, John Rufus and the World Vision of Anti-Chalcedonian Culture. Piscataway, NY: Gorgias Press, 2002. Pp. xxxvii + 199. Paperback, $ 45.00. ISBN 1-931956-09-X.
By Cornelia B. Horn
Aho Shemunkasho, Healing in the Theology of Saint Ephrem. Gorgias Dissertations, Near Eastern Studies 1. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2002. Pp. 480 + xxii. Paper,  $65.00.
By Ute Possekel
Wheeler M. Thackston,  Introduction to Syriac.  Bethesda, MD: Ibex Publishers, 1999.  Pp. xxvii + 228. Paper, $30.00.  ISBN 0-936347-98-9.
By Stephen J. Shoemaker
Gary A. Anderson, The Genesis of Perfection: Adam and Eve in Jewish and Christian Imagination. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001. Pp. xx + 257. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 0-664-22403-2.
By Robert A. Kitchen
Kees den Biesen, Bibliography of St. Ephrem the Syrian Giove in Umbria 2002, 383 pp. Available from Ephrem_bibliography@hotmail.com
By Paul S. Russell
David Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Vol. 582, Subsidia 104. Leuven: Peeters, 2000. Pp. xii + 864. Paper, € 160. ISBN 90-429-0876-9. Some Annotations on David Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Vol. 582, Subsidia 104. Leuven: Peeters, 2000.
By Alessandro Mengozzi and Pier Pisa)
Barbara Aland, Andreas Juckel, eds., Das Neue Testament in syrischer Überlieferung. II Die paulinischen Briefe, Teil 3: 1./2. Thessalonicherbrief, 1./2. Timotheusbrief, Titusbrief, Philemonbrief und Hebräerbrief. (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 32) Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2002. Pp. viii + 551. Cloth, Euro 198. ISBN 3-11-017387-5.
By Jan Joosten
Christoph Luxenberg (ps.) Die syro-aramaeische Lesart des Koran; Ein Beitrag zur Entschlüsselung der Qur’ānsprache. Berlin, Germany: Das Arabische Buch, First Edition, 2000. Pp. ix + 306, bibliography on pp. 307-311, no index. Paperback, Euros 29.70, no price available in US Dollars. ISBN 3-86093-274-8.
By Robert R. Phenix, Jr. and Cornelia B. Horn
Pier Giorgio Borbone, Storia di Mar Yahballaha e di Rabban Sauma. Un orientale in Occidente ai tempi di Marco Polo. Torino: Silvio Zamorani editore, 2000. Pp. 299 + 2 maps. Paper, € 18,59. ISBN 88-7158-089-3.
By Alessandro Mengozzi

Announcements

Public Lectures of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies
By George A. Kiraz
Gorgias Press Offers Over 60 Titles in Syriac Studies
By George A. Kiraz
Beth Mardutho Ten-Year Anniversary Fund Raising
By George A. Kiraz
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By George A. Kiraz
IV North American Syriac Symposium Syriac Christianity: Culture at the Crossroads (Deadline Extended)
By Kathleen E. McVey
ATLAS Digital Journal Project
By George A. Kiraz

Issue 2

Introduction

Kudos to Four Outstanding Scholars
By George A. Kiraz

In Memoriam

François Graffin, S.J. (1905-2002)
By Bernard Outtier

Articles

Towards Automatic Transcription of Estrangelo Script
By William F. Clocksin and Prem P. J. Fernando
Gabriel of Qatar's Commentary on the Liturgy
By Sebastian P. Brock
The Doctrina Addai as a Paradigm of Christian Thought in Edessa in the Fifth Century
By Sidney H. Griffith
Patriarchal Funerary Inscriptions in the Monastery of Rabban Hormizd: Types, Literary Origins, and Purpose
By Amir Harrak
Ms. Schøyen 2530/Sinai syr. 3 and the New Testament Peshitta
By Andreas Juckel

Short Articles

Some Further Notes on Thecla in Syriac Christianity
By Lucas Van Rompay and Catherine Burris

Reports

North American Syriac Symposium IV, 9-13 July 2003
By Eugene Aydin
ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies: Twentieth International Conference on Alcohol, 7-9 July 2003.
By David G. K. Taylor
IVth International Forum on Syriac Computing
By Thomas Joseph

Reviews

J.F. Coakley, Robinson's Paradigms and Exercises in Syriac Grammar 5th ed. Oxford University Press, 2002. vii + 181. Four Appendices. Syriac-English and English-Syriac glossaries. Cloth: ISBN 0-19-925409-5 $80.00 Paper: ISBN 0-19-926129-6 $35.00.
By Robert R. Phenix, Jr.
Ephrem-Isa Yousif, Les Chroniqueurs Syriaques, L’Harmattan: Paris, Budapest, Torino: 2002. ISBN 2-7475-2709-3.
By Amir Harrak
Peter J. Williams, Studies in the Syntax of the Peshitta of 1 Kings, Monographs of the Peshitta Institute Leiden (Leiden: Brill, 2001)
By Richard A. Taylor
Perrin, Nicholas, Thomas and Tatian: The Relationship between the Gospel of Thomas and the Diatessaron. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature ("Academia Biblica," 5), 2002. Pp. xii + 216.
By Paul-Hubert Poirier
Daniel Caner, Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 33. University of California Press: Berkeley, 2002. Pp. xv + 325. Cloth, $65.00
By Robert A. Kitchen
Robert F. Shedinger, Tatian and the Jewish Scriptures: A Textual and Philological Analysis of the Old Testament Citations in Tatian's Diatessaron. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Vol. 591 (Subsidia 109) (Lovanii: Peeters, 2001). ISBN: 90-429-1042-9. Price: € 70.00.
By William L. Petersen
Françoise Petit, La Chaîne sur l'Exode I. Fragments de Sévère d'Antioche. Texte grec établi et traduit. Avec un glossaire syriaque par Lucas Van Rompay. Traditio Exegetica Graeca, 9. Louvain, Peeters, 1999. ISBN: 90-429-0736-3. Pp. xxvii, 209.
By Edward G. Mathews, Jr.

Announcements

ATLAS Digital Journal Project
By American Association
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By George A. Kiraz
Gorgias Book Grant
By George A. Kiraz
Gorgias Press Offers Titles in Syriac Studies
By George A. Kiraz
IXth Syriac Symposium VIIth Conference of Christian Arabic Studies Lebanon, 20-25 September 2004
By Samir Samir