Volume Index

Volume 8

Issue 1

Introduction

FROM THE GENERAL EDITOR
By George A. Kiraz

In Memoriam

J.P.M. van der Ploeg O.P. (1909-2004)
By Lucas Van Rompay
Rev. Dr. David John Lane (1935-2005)†
By Jacob Thekeparampil

Articles

Jacob of Edessa's version of Exodus 1 and 28†
By Alison Salvesen
The Colloquy of Moses on Mount Sinai: Where Syriac Christianity Meets Islamic Spain and Africa between the 16th and 19th Centuries
By Karla R. Suomala
Methods of Instructing Syriac-Speaking Christians to Care for the Poor: A Brief Comparison of the Eighth Mēmrā of the Book of Steps and the Story of the Man of God of Edessa.
By Nancy A. Khalek

Bibliographies

Recent Books on Syriac Topics
By Sebastian P. Brock

Reports

Vatican Syriac Manuscripts: Volume 1
By Kristian S. Heal
BYU-CUA Eastern Christian Research Library
By Kristian S. Heal
The Bible of Edessa, Towards a New English Translation of the Syriac Bible, Leiden, 2 August 2004
By Wido van Peursen
Christian Art and Identity in Medieval Syria. Qara, Dair Mar Yakub - The “Museum Fragments” Damascus, May 20-22, 2004
By Andrea Schmidt
Digitization of Syriac Books and Other Holdings at The Catholic University of America
By Monica J. Blanchard

Reviews

Mathunny John Panicker. The Person of Jesus Christ in the Writings of Juhanon Gregorius Abu’l Faraj Commonly Called Bar Ebraya. Studien zur Orientalischen Kirchengeschichte 4. Münster, Hamburg, and London: LIT-Verlag, 2002. Distributed in the US by Transaction Publishers (New Brunswick and Piscataway, N.J.). Pp. 239. ISBN 3-8258-3390-9. Euros 30.90.
By Cornelia B. Horn
Stephen Desmond Ryan, O.P., Dionysius Bar Salibi’s Factual and Spiritual Commentary on Psalms 73-82. Cahiers de la Revue Biblique 57. Paris: J. Gabalda et Cie, 2004. Pp. xix + 251. ISBN 2-85021-156-4. € 35.00.
By Lucas Van Rompay
Nabil Matar (ed. and tr.). In the Lands of the Christians:  Arabic Travel Writing in the Seventeenth Century. New York and London:  Routledge, 2003.  Pp. xlviii + 229.  $23.95.
By Linda Wheatley-irving

Announcements

"Ode to Joy"
By Shawqi Talia
Beth Mardutho and Dorushe to organize trip to Tur Abdin August 5-18, 2005
By Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent
Symbols of Church and Kingdom Syriac Studies Workshop Princeton University, May 4-6, 2005
By Emmanuel Papoutsakis

Issue 2

Articles

Revisiting the Daughters of the Covenant: Women’s Choirs and Sacred Song in Ancient Syriac Christianity†
By Susan A. Harvey
Nisibis as the background to the Life of Ephrem the Syrian†
By Paul S. Russell

By Andreas Juckel

Reviews

Peter J. Williams, Early Syriac Translation Technique and the Textual Criticism of the Greek Gospels, Gorgias Press, Piscataway NJ, 2004, xvi + 339 pages (Texts and Studies. Contributions to Biblical and Patristic Literature, Third Series, Volume 2), ISBN 1-59333-096-0. $65.00
By Jan Joosten
F. Briquel Chatonnet, M. Debié and A. Desreumaux, eds., Les inscriptions syriaques. Études syriaques 1. Paris: Paul Geuthner, 2004. Pp. 171. ISBN 2-7053-3759-8. Paperback. €40.
By Andrew Palmer
Pauline Allen and C. T. R. Hayward, Severus of Antioch. The Early Church Fathers. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. vii + 200. ISBN 0-415-23402-6 (paperback). $29.95.
By Lucas Van Rompay
Mar Aprem Mooken, The Assyrian Church of the East in the Twentieth Century (Mōrān ’Eth’ō, 18; Kottayam: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute, 2003), 307 pp.
By Alexander Toepel
Robert A. Kitchen and Martien F. G. Parmentier. The Book of Steps: The Syriac Liber Graduum, Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Robert A. Kitchen and Martien F. G. Parmentier, Cistercian Studies Series 196, Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 2004.
By Anne Seville
Emma Loosley. The Architecture and Literature of the Bema in Fourth- to Sixth- Century Syrian Churches. Patrimoine Syriaque 2. Kaslik: Parole de l’Orient, 2003. Pp. 294.
By Marica Cassis

Announcements

Dorushe Conference on Syriac Pedagogy at The Catholic University of America
By George A. Kiraz