Syriac Studies
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Khristiansky Vostok 9/15 (2021) 77–94
Since the publication of the long-lost Gospel of Judas in 2006, there has been a flurry of interest in canonical and noncanonical traditions about the famous betrayer of Christ. One text overlooked in this excitement is the Legend of the... more
Along the lines of a reappraisal of the so-called Byzantine “Dark Ages,” this contribution addresses the question of the re-emergence of classical culture in Byzantium in the 9th century and how Syriac sources can throw some light on the... more
The past few decades have witnessed a proliferation of theories on the origins of Islam which have called into question long-held scholarly axioms. One such axiom is the traditional date of 632 CE for the death of the prophet Muhammad,... more
Lebanon has entered its third year as a country hosting the highest number of Syrian refugees in the region. All geographical areas with a high concentration of Syrian refugees in Lebanon share a similar protracted marginality,... more
As the crisis in Syria keeps escalating and the violent crackdown of the Bashar al-Assad regime results in more civilian deaths, the growing instability and civil opposition is significantly challenging the die-hard regime and raises... more
Syrian Churches and Mongols in the 13th Century In the 13th century major part of the so called Syrian Christians lived in the Mongol Empire. This article discusses how these Christians viewed the Mongols, what was their opinion of the... more
This blog was prepared for Holy Week 2020. In it, I describe illustrations relating to various stages of the Passion of Christ found within the British Library's holdings of Syriac manuscripts. I explore some of the variations in style... more
This is the introduction of my released book including all arabic editorials of the magazines Kawkab Madenho, Bethnahrin and Huyodo of Naum Faiq (1868-1930). All articles were transcripted from Garshuni (arabic in syriac letters) to... more
Umschlagbild: Inschrift am Haupteingang der Kirche Notre Dame d'Ilige, Mayfouk/Libanon. Alter Sitz der maronitischen Patriarchen (Foto: Hans Hollerweger) Gedruckt mit Unterstützung von: ZECO -Zentrum zur Erforschung des Christlichen... more
The word χαλκολιβανον (chalcolibanon) in Revelation 1:15, describing the feet of a visionary presence, which appears nowhere else in classical literature, is usually explained as meaning “brass of Lebanon”. Since Lebanon has never been... more
This chapter examines discourses on polygyny among East Syrian Christians in late antique and early Islamic Iraq and Iran. Through such discourses, articulated principally in legal texts but also in chronicles and biographical... more
L’invenzione del dialogo raccoglie una serie di testi letterari cristiani in lingua siriaca, di un genere in cui questa letteratura si distinse ed eccelse: l’innografia e la poesia piegate a esporre temi e motivi teologici, esegetici e... more
This paper presents a Polish translation from Syriac of four Odes of Solomon (29, 36, 40, 41), which have never yet been published in Polish. The translation is introduced by a short introduction and accompanied by a basic linguistic and... more
The Arabic paraphrase of Enn 4.8.1 seems to conflate the noetic and transnoetic accounts found in the Plotinian corpus, in order to furnish a complete depiction of the mystical life. In its own account of the ascent of the soul, the... more
A saying claims that trade has no religion; it even adapts to a war situation, as demonstrated by the real-time reorganisation of trade channels at the Turkish-Syrian border.
Odes de Salomon 7,3a -Observations sur un hellénisme dans le texte syriaque Joosten, Jan Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der Ã#lteren Kirche; Jan 1, 1998; 89, 1; ProQuest pg. 134
In 2019 we wrote a paper (Tendeiro & Kiers, 2019) in Psychological Methods over null hypothesis Bayesian testing and its working horse, the Bayes factor. Recently, van Ravenzwaaij and Wagenmakers (2021) offered a response to our piece,... more
Victor, Bishop of Tunnuna Chronicon Continuans ubi Prosper Desint Edited by Brian Duvick A XVIII consulatu Theodosii Junioris, Victor episcopus Tununensis Ecclesiae Africae historiam prosequitur ubi Prosper reliquit. Igitur Theodosio... more
Revue annuelle publiée par l'Association Semitica & classica, avec le concours du CNRS et le soutien de l'UMR 8167 « Orient & Méditerranée » (Mondes sémitiques, Antiquité classique et tardive, Monde byzantin, Médecine grecque, Islam... more
Back in the 1990s we were returning to Damascus from the TalSalhap Sugar plant. We had made a proposal for a steam boiler for the sugar factory, and we were returning. Our guide, our representative from Syria, wanted to show an ancient... more
1960’lı yıllardan itibaren, Türkiye’den Avrupa’nın muhtelif ülkelerine Süryani göçleri meydana gelmiştir. Bu ülkelerden birisi de Hollanda olmuştur. Nitekim Avrupa’daki ilk Süryani Ortodoks Kilisesi (Apostel Johannes Kerk) ve abraşiye... more
Published in W. Th. van Peursen, 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,... more
يتطرق أطلس الشرق الأوسط العربي للمتغيرات في سوريا ولبنان والأردن والأراضي الفلسطينية حيث الزراعة مهددة والنمو السكاني متسارع والمرأة تحتل حيزا متناميا في الحياة الاقتصادية ناهيك عن مشاكل الجفاف والإفراط في استغلال الموارد المائية والمشاكل... more
The study of the Samaritan version of Saadya Gaon’s translation of the Pentateuch (the tafsīr), mainly based on MS London BL OR7562, shows that a Saadyan version in Arabic Characters was adopted by the Samaritans and adapted to the... more
A guide to children, parents and student of Syriac, with twenty-two illustrations. Each pair of facing pages introduces a single letter of the alphabet with a word that begins with the letter in question on one side, and an illustration... more