People will recall that I'm interested in the Syriac remains of Eusebius of Caesarea's "Quaestiones" (gospel divergences and their solutions), and some people...
Eastern Christian Art 4 has appeared The fourth issue of the journal Eastern Christian Art in its Late Antique and Islamic Contexts has just appeared. In...
For several years now I've been looking for traces of a manuscript catalogued in his Fihris volume 1, p.29 no. 205, the Kitab al-Filaha, which belonged to...
I have been making Syriac vocabulary flashcards available online, for vocabulary review. The cards are grouped according to frequency of occurrence in the...
Dear Jeff, This is great! My one question is whether you've entered in all of George's list, it seems like they're not quite enough cards yet or perhaps my...
Michael Penn
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Sep 13, 2008 4:02 pm
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Michael, These are just the cards I have entered this week. George's entire list has not yet been yet uploaded. But knowing that they may be of benefit beyond...
Dear Roger, I am happy to contibute for the tanslation of Coptic Catena as I already publish the catena of Sevrus of Antioch. For my publication list cf. ...
Youhanna Youssef
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Sep 14, 2008 3:24 pm
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Most of us are researchers or teachers, I would imagine, and somewhat at the mercy of policy-setters in remote libraries, museums and archives. These can be...
A Temple Studies Group has been established, in the first instance to convene one day symposia on temple themes. The first will be in St Stephen’s House,...
Kevin Robinson
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Sep 16, 2008 6:03 pm
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Dear Roger, I do not hesitate that the October award will go to the Institute of Oriental Studies in St. Petersburg. Not longer then a week ago I got an...
Dear R Liuzza, I read that you are planing holding a wide scoped forum in the US and I see this as a big task. The wide range of languages, may open many...
Oshana, Thank you. Certainly that would make a very useful and interesting conference. The conference planned in Knoxville, TN is of a different scope,...
Shepardson, Christine...
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Sep 17, 2008 12:58 pm
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Good evening all, I saw the pictures but there is not enough wrting to make sense, or form an idea. oshana ... From: Marcel Pirard <marcelpirard@...> ...
Does anyone know of anyone working on this text, or interested in it? As far as I know it's never been printed in its entirety, or received any non-trivial...
Dear Sirs, Claude Cahen interested that. You can find this at the National Library of turkey. Claude Cahen, La chronique des ayyubides d'al-makin b. al-Amid,...
It is an extract of Bulletin d'Études Orientales de l'Institut Français de Damas, tome XV, 1955-1957, p. 109-184. - Françoise Briquel Chatonnet Orient et...
Briquel Chatonnet
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Sep 18, 2008 3:41 pm
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Dear Roger, The latter part of the Histroy (the part edited by Cahen in the 50s) was translated by Anne-Marie Eddé and Francoise Micheau, about 10 years ago. ...
Lennart Sundelin
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Sep 19, 2008 10:59 am
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Dear Roger, There is an Ethiopic translation of this chronicle, known as that of Giyorgis Wäldä (= Eth.: ‘son of’) Amid, that I dealt with in a paper...
Dear friends, I am an Italian very interested in Semitic languages and cultures. I know some Arabic and am learning Syriac. I would like to ask a question...
Dear Davide, There is no real vowel length differentiation in Syriac. What passes for vowel length is a mixture of vowel quality and weight. In quality, zqapa ...
Dear Gareth, I thank you with all my heart for your answer! Is vowel phonetic (non-phonological) quantity influenced by the position of the vowel in the word?...
Hello. I'm new here, and I've been teaching myself Syriac with Robinson's Paradigms 5th ed. for several years (in my spare time, which is not much). I...
Dear Michelle, A propos the question #1 - I think some relevant material could be found in this book - Budge, E.A.W. (ed.), Syrian Anatomy, Pathology and...
Thanks for the reply. I've found archive.org and the first site you mentioned to be very useful. I'm afraid the French gallica site you gave is not much use...
Has anyone on this list come across references to the 7 deadly sins and virtues in Syriac sources? Or perhaps something akin to the medieval European tradition...
Syriac Session being organized for American Society of Church History Annual Spring Meeting. This is a last minute notice and call, but I have been nudged...
Hello all, I'm writing on behalf of a colleague who has a number of old PC files containing extensive use of the older TrueType font SPEdessa and is interested...
It may be of interest to many on the list that a precious melkite ms known as Codex Syriacus Secundus was recently sold at Christie's for 96,000 USD (it was...
Dear George, I was recently contacted by the author of the article on Hira for the forthcoming Dictionary of Syriac Heritage. I have looked over his article ...
