Volume Index

Volume 7

Issue 1

In Memoriam

Mar Raphael Bidawid (1922-2003)
By George A. Kiraz
Ben Segal: Public-spirited scholar of Aramaic and Hebrew studies†
By Geoffrey Khan
Michel Van Esbroeck (1934-2003)
By Lucas Van Rompay

Articles

Generous Devotion: Women in the Church of the East between 1550 and 1850
By Heleen L. Murre-Van Den Berg
Mallpânâ dilan Suryâyâ Ephrem in the Works of Philoxenus of Mabbog: Respect and Distance†
By Lucas Van Rompay
The Reception of the Book of Daniel in Aphrahat's Fifth Demonstration "On Wars"
By Craig E. Morrison

Bibliographies


By Sebastian P. Brock

Reports

Papers on ancient Syriac topics presented to the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 25, 2003.
By Ilaria Ramelli

Reviews

Gillian Greenberg, Translation Technique in the Peshitta to Jeremiah. Monographs of the Peshitta Institute 13; Leiden/Boston/Cologne: Brill, 2002. Pp. xiii + 242. $75, ISBN 90-04-11980-9.
By Craig E. Morrison

Announcements

Summer Seminar "Aramaic in Post-Biblical Judaism and Early Christianity"
Christianity in Iraq School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 3 April 2004
By George A. Kiraz
The Syriac Digital Library
By George A. Kiraz
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the IVth Syriac Symposium at Princeton, July 9-13, 2003
By Eugene Aydin
IXth Syriac Symposium VIIth Conference of Christian Arabic Studies Lebanon, 20-25 September 2004
By Samir Samir

The International Syriac Language Project (ISLP)
By P.J. Williams

Issue 2

Articles

Priests, Laity and the Sacrament of the Eucharist in sixth century Syria†
By Volker Menze
The Credentials of Mar Julius Alvares, bishop of Ceylon, Goa and India Excluding Malabar
By George A. Kiraz
The Pearl of Virginity: Death as the Reward of Asceticism in Mēmrā 191 of Jacob of Serug
By Robert A. Kitchen

Reports

Aramaic in Post-Biblical Judaism and Early Christianity Duke University, North Carolina, June 14 – July 23, 2004
By Michael Philip Penn Lucas Van Rompay
Session on Syriac Lexicography, International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature Groningen, The Netherlands July 25-28, 2004.
By Ilaria Ramelli
Syriac Antiochian Exegesis and Biblical Theology for the 3rd Millennium Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, Emmitsburg, MD June 25, 2004
By Jonathan Loopstra
Syriac Papers at the North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting Loyola University, Chicago May 27-29, 2004
By Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent
Christianity in Iraq Seminar School of Oriental and African Studies, London April 3, 2004
By Erica C.D. Hunter

Reviews

Wilhelm Baum. Schirin: Christin-Königin-Liebesmythos. Eine spätantike Frauengestalt - historische Realität und literarische Wirkung. Einführungen in das orientalische Christentum 3. Klagenfurt & Wien: kitab Verlag, 2003. ISBN 3-902005-14-9. € 25.00.
By Cornelia B. Horn
Wilhelm Baum and Dietmar W. Winkler, The Church of the East: A Concise History (London/New York: Routledge Curzon 2003). Pp. xii + 204. ISBN 0 415 29770 2. $90.
By J.F. Coakley
Xavier Jacob et Angelo Guido Calonghi, Les Chrétiens du Proche Orient après deux millénaires. Les vicissitudes des Communautés Chrétiennes du Proche Orient des débuts du Christianisme à la fin du IIme Millénaire, Tirrenia Stampatori, Torino 2002, pp. 492, ISBN 88-7763-529-0, € 37,00
By Alessandro Mengozzi
Sidney H. Griffith. Yahya ibn cAdi: The Reformation of Morals, A Parallel Arabic-English Text, Translated and Introduced by Sidney H. Griffith, Eastern Christian Texts, Volume 1. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2002.
By John C. Lamoreaux

Announcements

The Bible of Edessa Leiden, August 2, 2004
By Wido van Peursen and Bas ter Haar Romeny
Syriac Studies Workshop Princeton University, May 4-6, 2005
By Emmanuel Papoutsakis

The Colloquy of Moses on Mount Sinai: Where Syriac Christianity Meets Islamic Spain and Africa between the 16th and 19th Cent.
By Karla R. Suomala