George A. Kiraz

Publications

46 Orris Ave, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA

Text Editions, Encyclopedia Articles, and Edited Collections

Text Editions

1. The Acts of St. George and the Story of his Father from the Syriac and Garshuni Versions. Losser, The Netherlands: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991; 2nd edition: Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2009.
2. Lectionary of the Syriac Epistles according to the Ancient Rite of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch. Losser, The Netherlands: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1992. 
3. Anton Kiraz’s Archive on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2005.
4. (With Sebastian P. Brock) Ephrem the Syrian: Select Poems: Vocalized Syriac text with English translation, introduction and notes. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2006.
5. The Searchable and Bookmarked Syriac-English Dictionary, a searchable PDF of J. Payne Smith’s A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007.
6. The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible with English Translation (aka Antioch Bible Series) (ongoing).
I. (With Joseph Bali, Gillian Greenberg, and Donald M. Walter). Isaiah. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012.
II. (With Joseph Bali, Gillian Greenberg, and Donald M. Walter), The Twelve Prophets. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012.
III. (With Jeff Childers). Mark. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012.
IV. (With Jeff Childers). Matthew. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012.
V. (With Joseph Bali, Gillian Greenberg, and Donald M. Walter). Jeremiah. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2013.
VI. (With J. Edward Walters). Galatians–Philemon. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2013.
VII. (With Joseph Bali, Donald M. Walter, and Gillian Greenberg). Lamentations, Prayer of Jeremiah, Epistle of Jeremiah, and Epistles of Baruch. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2013.
VIII. (With Joseph Bali and Carmel McCarthy). Deuteronomy. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2013.
IX. (With Jeff Childers). Luke. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2013.
X. (With Daniel King). Romans–Corinthians. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2013.
XI. (With Jeff Childers and James Prather). John. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2014.
XII. (With Jerome Lund). Revelation. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2014.
XIII. (With Bob Kitchen). Acts. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2014.
XIV. (With Donald M. Walter and Gillian Greenberg). Samuel. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015.
XV. (With James Moor and Joseph Bali). Leviticus. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015.
XVI. (With Gillian Greenberg, Donald M. Walter, and Joseph Bali). Ezekiel. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015.
XVII. (With Gillian Greenberg, Donald M. Walter, and Joseph Bali). Joshua. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015.
XVIII. (With Donald M. Walter and Gillian Greenberg). Daniel. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015.
XIX. (With Donald M. Walter and Gillian Greenberg). Judges. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015.
XX. (With Edward Cook and Joseph Bali). Numbers. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015.
XXI. (With Daniel King, J. Edward Walters, and Joseph Bali). Hebrew and General Epistles. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2016.
XXII. (With Jonathan Loopstra and Joseph Bali). Job. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2016.
XXIII. (With Mark Meyer and Joseph Bali). Exodus. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2018.
XXIV. (With Gillian Greenberg, Donald M. Walter, and Joseph Bali). Kings. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2018.
XXV. (With Robert Gordon and Joseph Bali). Chronicles. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2019.
XXVI. (With Mario Kozah, Haya Al Thani, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, and Saif Shaheen) The Syriac and Arabic Lexicon of Hasan Bar Bahlul. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2019.
XXVII. (With Craig Morison and Joseph Bali). Genesis. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2019.
XXVIII. (With Richard Taylor and Joseph Bali). Psalms. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020.
XXIX. (With Donald Walter, Gillian Greenberg, Eric Tully, and Joseph Bali). The Book of Women: Ruth, Susanna, Esther, and Judith. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020.
7. The Order of Ordination of the Deacons. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012.

8. كتاب «الستاتيسكو» ويتضمن وصف لحقوق السريان الأرثوذكس في الأماكن المقدسة/ [Namuj’s Book of Status Quo.] Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020.

9. ܕܝܬܝܩܐ ܚܕܬܐ ܕܡܪܢ ܝܫܘܥ ܡܫܝܚܐ / Syriac-English New Testament: The Traditional Syriac Peshitta Text and the Antioch Bible English Translation. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020
10. Peshitta English New Testament: The Antioch Bible English Translation. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020.

Edited Collections

1. SyrCOM-95: Proceedings of the First International Forum on Syriac Computing, Washington DC. The Syriac Computing Institute, 1995.

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KIRAZ_1995_SyrCOM_part2

2. SyrCOM-96: Proceedings of the Second International Forum on Syriac Computing, Uppsala, Sweden. The Syriac Computing Institute, 1996.

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3. SyrCOM-99: Proceedings of the Third International Forum on Syriac Computing, Notre Dame, Indiana. The Syriac Computing Institute, 1999.

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4. Malphono w-Rabo d-Malphone: Studies in Honor of Sebastian P. Brock. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2008.
5. (With G. Y. Ibrahim) Studies on Jacob of Edessa. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2010.
7. (With Sebastian P. Brock, Aaron Butts, and Lucas Van Rompay) The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011.
8. (With Zeyad Al-Salameen) From Ugarit to Nabataea, Studies in Honor of John F. Healey. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012.
9. (With Sabine Schmidtke) Writing in My Own Script: Allographic and Garshunographic Systems in Late Antiquity. 2 vols
I. [Part 1] Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 7, no. 2–3. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
II. [Part 2] Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 8, no. 1. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
10. (With Mario Kozah, Haya Al Thani, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, and Saif Shaheen) Beth Qaṭraye: A Lexical and Toponymical Survey. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020.
11. (With Sabine Schmidtke) Scribal Habits in the Islamicate World. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020.

Encyclopedia Articles

1. ‘Syriac’. In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., 12: 439–440. Oxford: Elsevier, 2006.
2. The following articles in Gorgias Encyclopedia of the Syriac Heritage. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011.
I. ʿAbdullāh I bar Sṭephanos
II. ʿAbdullāh Ṣaṭṭūf
III. ʿAbdulmasīḥ II
IV. Abrohom II Gharib
V. Abrohom Naḥshirtono
VI. Armalah, Isḥāq
VII. Asʿad, Gabriel
VIII. Athanasios Aṣlan
IX. Audo, Toma
X. Aydin, Nuʿmān
XI. Ayyub, Barsoum
XII. Barsoum, Ignatius Afram
XIII. Barsoum, Murad Ṣaliba
XIV. Baselios Gewargis
XV. Behnam Ḥadloyo
XVI. Bello, Estipān
XVII. Bidāry, Pawlos
XVIII. Bidawid, Raphael I
XIX. Çiçek, Julius Yeshu
XX. Computing, Syriac
XXI. Dabbūs, Antoine
XXII. Danhash, George
XXIII. Daoud, Francis
XXIV. al-Dibs, Yūsuf
XXV. Dolabani, Philoxenos Yuḥanon
XXVI. Elias, Ghaṭṭās (Danḥo) Maqdisi
XXVII. Eliya III, Shakir
XXVIII. Fāʿiq, Naʿʿūm
XXVIX. Giwargis II, Ignatius
XXXI. Grigorios Yawseph
XXXII. Ḥanno, Sulayman
XXXIII. Ḥubeika, Joseph
XXXIV. Ignatius Yaʿqub III
XXXV. Isḥoq ʿAzar
XXXVI. Isḥoq Ṣaliba
XXXVII. Iwannis Yuḥanon
XXXVIII. Jacob, Cyril
XXXIX. Jamīl, Shmuʿel
XL. Khoury, Asmar
XLI. Konat, Matta
XLII. Kthobonoyo Syriac
XLIII. Maphrian
XLIV. Maqdisī, Jeremiah
XLV. Mark, Monastery of St.
XLVI. Matay, Dayro d-Mor
XLVII. Mingana, Alphonse
XLVIII. Murad, Michael
XLIX. Naqqāsheh, Afram
L. Niʿmatullah, Ignatius
LI. Nūrī, Athanasios Ignatios
LII. Nuro, Abrohom
LIII. Qarabashī, ʿAbd al-Masīḥ Nuʿmān
LIV. Qiryo, Yuḥanna
LV. Qoro, Elias Malke
LVI. al-Rāhib, Elias
LVII. Saba, Boutros
LVIII. Saka, Yaʿqub
LVIX. Salmān, Ḥanna
LX. Samuel, Athanasios Yeshuʿ
LXI. Sawma, Abrohom
LXII. Shamsi Clan
LXIII. Shaʿya, Elias
LXIV. Shemʿun II, Basileios
LXV. Sobo, Ignatios
LXVI. Sobo, Malki al-Qas Afram
LXVII. Syriac Orthodox Church
LXVIII. Taw Mim Simkath
LXIX. Yuḥanon XIV bar Shayullāh
LXX. Yuḥanon Qashisho
LXXI. al-Zaʿfarān, Dayr
LXXII. Jerusalem (with L. Van Rompay)
LXXIII. Manna, Yaʿqob Awgen (with S. P. Brock)
LXXIV. Raḥmani, Ignatius Ephrem II (with S. P. Brock)
LXXV. Salomon, Désiré (with J. F. Coakley)
LXXVI. Scher, Addai (with S. P. Brock)
LXXVII. Smith, Agnes and Margaret (with S. P. Brock)

3. ‘Syriac.’ In The World Encyclopedia of Calligraphy, The Ultimate Compendium on the Art of Fine Writing: History, Craft, Technique, 261–262. New York: Sterling, 2011.