Letter from the General Editor
St. Ephrem in the Eyes of Later Syriac Liturgical TradtionSebastian Brock, University of OxfordA Ballad about Saint Andrew and the Cannibals, Attributed to Saint EphraimMichael van Esbroech, S.J., Ludwig-MaximiliansuniversitätKnowledge of Ephraim's Writings in the Merovingian and Carolingian AgeDavid Ganz, King's CollegeEphrem's Madroshe and the Syrian Orthodox Beth Gazo: A Loose, but Fascinating, AffinityGregorios Y. Ibrahim, Syrian Orthodox Archbishop of Aleppo & George A. Kiraz, Bell LaboratoriesEphrem's Ideas on SinglenessThomas Kathanar Koonammakkal, St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research InstituteThe Ephremic Tradition and the Theology of the EnvironmentRobert Murray, S.J., Heythrop CollegeThe Influence of Ephraim the SyrianAndrew Palmer, School of Oriental and African Studies"Making Church of England Poetical" Ephraim and the Oxford MovementGeoffrey Rowell, Bishop of Basingstoke
Recent Books on Syriac Topics (1997-1998)Sebastian Brock, Oxford University
P.V.M. Flesher, ed., Targum and PeshittaKonrad D. Jenner, University of LeidenTakamitsu Muraoka, Classical Syriac: A Basic Grammar with a ChrestomathyJan Joosten, Universite Des Sciences Humaines De StrasbourgAndreas Juckel, ed. and tr., Der Ktaba d-Durrasa (Ktaba d-Ma'wata) des Elija von Anbar. Memra I-IIIHubert Kaufhold, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet
The Third Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab and Christianity and IslamWoodbrooke, United Kingdom, 7-9 September 1998Sydney Griffith, The Catholic University of AmericaWorld Syriac Conference IV, St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute (SEERI)Kottayam, India, 6-12 September 1998David Taylor, University of BirminghamSymposium Syro-Arabicum IISayyidat al-Bi'r, Beirut, 17-19 September 1998Herman Teule, University of Nijmegen
A Syriac Letter on Papyrus: P.Berol.Inv. 8285Sebastian Brock, University of OxfordDeir al-Surian (Egpyt): Its Wall-paintings, Wall-texts, and Manuscripts:
I. The Wall-Paintings of Deir Al-Surian: New Discoveries of 1999Karl C. Innemée, University of Leiden
II. Syriac Inscriptions in Deir Al-Surian: Some Reflections on Their Writers and ReadersLucas Van Rompay, University of Leiden
III. The Conservation of Manuscripts in the Library of Deir al-Surian: First NotesElizabeth Sobczynski, Conservator of Works of Art on Paper
An Account of Gregory Bar Hebraeus Abu al-Faraj and His Relations with the Mongols of PersiaGeorge Lane, School of Oriental and African StudiesThe Patriarchs of the Church of the East from the Fifteenth to Eighteenth CenturiesHeleen H.L. Murre-van den Berg, University of Leiden
The Publications of the St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research InstituteDavid G.K. Taylor, University of Birmingham
William Dalrymple, From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle EastSusan A. Harvey, Brown UniversityR.P. Gordon, Chronicles. Vol. IV, 2 of The Old Testament in Syriac According to the Peshitta VersionAndreas Juckel, University of MünsterYona Sabar, The Book of Numbers in Neo-Aramaic in the Dialect of the Jewish Community of ZakhoGeoffrey Khan, University of CambridgeRichard J. Saley, The Samuel Manuscript of Jacob of EdessaDavid J. Lane
Syriac Symposium III: The Aramaic Heritage of Syria, 17-20 June 1999Monica Blanchard & Amy Agnew, The Catholic University of AmericaRedefining Christian Identity: Christian Cultural Strategies since the Rise of Islam, 7-11 April 1999Jan van Ginkel, University of GroningenThe Assyrian Experience: Sources for the Study of the 19th and 20th Centuries, March-April 1999Michael Hopper, Harvard UniversitySemitic Linguisitic: The State of the Art at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, 11-13 January 1999Shlomo Isre'el, Tel Aviv UniversityThe New English Annotated Translation of the Syriac Bible, 4-5 February 1999Konrad D. Jenner, The Peshitta Institute, Leiden UniversityARAM Fourteenth Conference: Antioch and Edessa, 12-14 July 1999Bas T.H. Romeny, The Peshitta Institute, Leiden University
