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I've become a little bit obsessed with AI. Like many, I played with early versions of ChapGPT. I found it curious, but was pleased to discover that it didn't know what I knew. And it sometimes just made stuff up! So I retreated to the safety of more reliable digital resources, such as Sergey Minov's …
Codicology Date: 2031 A.G/ 1720 A.D. (fol. 104v); August 1720 A.D. (fol. 151b). Codex: Paper; 199 folios (176b miscopied upside down); 320*220mm page; 2 columns; 25 lines per column; Foxing throughout; Quire marks begin with ܝܓ – ܝܕ (transition seems to be missing a leaf, suggesting secondary marking). Text & Paratext: Serto script with occasional …
By Kristian Heal The Simtho/a corpus, a project of Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, is already transforming the way that we do Syriac Studies by providing concordance search facility to a large and varied corpus of Syriac texts. This is the largest electronic corpus of Syriac texts ever assembled. And it is growing still. Each …
The first volume of the complete translation of Narsai's homilies is very close to publication. This first volume has the following table of contents: PrefaceAbbreviationsCitation of Homilies by NarsaiTranscription of SyriacA Brief Introduction to Reading NarsaiKristian S. HealHomily 1 ‘On Revelations to Patriarchs and Prophets (I)’Sidney H. GriffithHomily 14 ‘On Jonah’Robert A. KitchenHomily 8 ‘On …
I recently wrote a series of twenty Facebook posts that highlighted twenty great developments in Syriac studies. This is, of course, a personal list. But I thought it worth gathering the posts all together in one place. 1. Gathering The formation of Syriac studies societies and regular local gatherings of Syriac scholars has helped grow …
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Narsai's memre focus on salvation history as an ongoing learning process for humanity, in which Christ's incarnation, with his two natures (God and man) preserved intact, is the key moment.Lucas Van Rompay In the summer of 2017, an international group of scholars met on the beautiful campus of Brigham Young University to share new research …
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