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Syriac Studies
Interviews with authors of books about Syriac Christian culture, past and present.
January 19, 2026
A Prophecy of Empire
The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius was one of the medieval world’s most popular and widely translated texts. Composed in Syriac in Mesopotamia in the …
October 10, 2025
The Pearlsong
The Pearlsong (Harvard University Press, 2025) offers the reader a beautifully translated story of a young child who goes on a journey to far away pla…
September 4, 2025
Landscapes of Warfare
Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East (University Press of Colorado, 2025) by Dr. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni offers an in-d…
March 14, 2025
The Making of Syriac Jerusalem
This book discusses hagiographic, historiographical, hymnological, and theological sources that contributed to the formation of the sacred picture of …
February 15, 2025
Jingjiao
Many people assume that the first introduction of Christianity to the Chinese was part of nineteenth-century Western imperialism. In fact, Syriac-spea…
July 28, 2024
Evagrius of Pontus
The Gnostic Trilogy is the best-known and most important work by the ascetic philosopher and teacher Evagrius of Pontus. Among the writers of his age,…
May 27, 2023
Stories Between Christianity and Islam
In Stories between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond (University of California Press, 2022),…
January 29, 2023
Water the Willow Tree
In Water the Willow Tree: Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood (Gorgias Press, 2022), George A. Kiraz tells the story of a young Palestinian boy growing up …
November 21, 2022
Assyrians in Modern Iraq
Today I talked to Alda Benjamen about his book Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Space (Cambridge UP, 2021) Examining the …
November 16, 2022
Bethlehem's Syriac Christians
Mark D. Calder's Bethlehem's Syriac Christians: Self, Nation and Church in Dialogue and Practice (Gorgias Press, 2017) is anthropological study of Syr…
September 10, 2021
The Christian Encounter with Muhammad
Muhammad has not only been at the center of Muslims discussions of prophethood but he has also been the focus for many Christians as well. In The Chri…
September 28, 2018
Sense and Sadness
Religious music can be a source of comfort and release, but also a remembrance of sadness and loss. In Sense and Sadness: Syriac Chant in Aleppo (Oxfo…
September 4, 2018
Between Christ and Caliph
Recent years have seen new waves of research in Syriac studies, the medieval Middle East, and family history. Combining all three, Lev Weitz’s Between…
July 17, 2015
The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions
The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions (Routledge, 2013) written by Emran El-Badawi, professor and director of the Arab Studies program at the U…