It is often forgotten that many people in late antique Syria were bilingual in Syriac and Greek. These articles explore aspects of the interaction between these two literary cultures, exemplified…

From the semitic-aramaic spirituality of the early Church to the Hellenized theological Vision of later centuries, the Syrian tradition offers modern Christians an intensity, insights, and an immediacy rare in…

What was Joseph’s reaction when he arrived home to find Mary pregnant? Dialogue poems (sughyotho) offer lively, thought-provoking, and often delightful re-imaginings of Biblical events. The collection provides five dialogue…

These two accounts of the most important ecclesiastical figures of the early sixth century focus especially on Severos’ student years in Alexandria and Beirut, and the earlier part of his…

This is a Syriac-English dictionary based on word frequencies, tables of conjugations, a list of homographs, a list of Greek words, a skeleton grammar, and more. It is a necessary…

The first translation into a modern language in over a hundred years of a vital source for the history of church and empire in Late Antiquity.