Wednesday, September 12, 2007

HUGOYE: JOURNAL OF SYRIAC STUDIES has just published a new issue (10.2, Summer 2007). Table of contents:
In Memoriam

Bruce Manning Metzger (1914-2007).
Ian Torrance, Princeton Theological Seminary

Taeke Jansma (1919-2007).
Lucas van Rompay, Duke University

Papers

Syriac Language And Script In A Chinese Setting: Nestorian Inscriptions From Quanzhou, China.
Majella Franzmann, University of New England

The Edessan Milieu and the Birth of Syriac.
John F. Healey, University of Manchester

Kthobonoyo Syriac: Some Observations and Remarks.
George Kiraz, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute

Brief Article

150 Years of Syriac Studies at the University of Toronto.
Amir Harrak, University of Toronto

Publications and Book Reviews

Sebastian P. Brock, An Introduction to Syriac Studies (revised second edition).
Robert A. Kitchen, Knox-Metropolitan United Church

Sebastian P. Brock, The Wisdom of St. Isaac of Nineveh.
Robert A. Kitchen, Knox-Metropolitan United Church

Adam H. Becker, Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom. The School of Nisibis and Christian Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia.
Ilaria Ramelli, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan

Isaac Armalet, Catalogue of the Syriac and Arabic Manuscripts at the Patriarchal Library of Charfet.
David G.K. Taylor, Oxford University

Project Report

The BYU-CUA Syriac Studies Reference Library: A Final Report.
Carl W. Griffin and Kristian S. Heal, Brigham Young University
Conference Reports

The 6th Italian Meeting on Syriac Christianity, Milan, May 25, 2007.
Alessandro Mengozzi, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Italy

Vth Syriac Symposium, University of Toronto, June 25-27, 2007.
Robert A. Kitchen, Knox-Metropolitan United Church

Dorushe Conference 2007, Princeton, April 14-15, 2007.
Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent, Brown University
Announcements

The Literary Production of Melkites in the pre-Ottoman Era (AD 750-1516), Sayyidat al-Bir (Lebanon), January 24–26, 2008.

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