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PUBLICATIONS/REVIEWS/REPORTS

Recent Books on Syriac Topics (1997 - 2000)


Sebastian P. BROCK
sebastian.brock@oriental-institute.oxford.ac.uk
University of Oxford
Oriental Institute
Pusey Lane, Oxford OX2 1LE


[1] As in previous lists of recent books on Syriac topics, I have taken the opportunity to rectify some oversights (one very serious one from 1997!) from 1997 and 1998.

[2] 1997

Borbone, P., Cook, J., Jenner, K.D., and Walter, D.M.:  The Old Testament in Syriac according to the Peshitta Version. Part V, Concordance; Volume 1, The Pentateuch (Leiden:  Brill).

Malacrida, G:  Forme del canto siriaco (Lucca:  Libreria musicale italiana).

Teule, H. and Wessels, A. (eds):  Oosterse christenen binnen de wereld van de Islam (Kampen: Kok).   [With good coverage of the Syriac traditions].

[3] 1998

Brock, S.P: The Holy Spirit in the Syrian Baptismal Tradition (Syrian Churches Series (ed. J. Vellian) 9, Pune: Anita;  Enlarged Second Edition).

Lattke, M:  Die Oden Salomos in ihre Bedeutung für Neues Testament und Gnosis, IV (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 25/4;  Fribourg: Editions universitaires/Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht).

Frantzolas, K.G:  Hosiou Ephraim tou Syrou Erga, VII (Thessaloniki:  Perivoli tis Panagias).   [The final volume of a re-edition of Ephrem Graecus, mostly based on Assemani, but this volume also has a few hitherto unpublished texts].

Heinz, A:  Feste und Feiern im Kirchenjahr nach dem Ritus der Syrisch-Orthodoxen Kirche von Antiochien (Trier).

Sauget, J-M. (ed. L. Duval-Arnould and F. Rilliet): Littératures et manuscripts des chrétientés syriaques et arabes.  Receuil d’articles (Studi e Testi 389, Rome).

Varghese, B:  Dionysius bar Salibi:  Commentary on the Eucharist (Moran Etho Series 10; Kottayam:  SEERI).  [English translation].

[4] 1998/9

Charon, C. (tr. J. Collarafi):  History of the Melkite Patriarchates (Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem) from the sixth-century Monophysite Schism until the present [1902], I-II (Fairfax VA:  Eastern Christian Publications).

[5] 1999

Barsom, E. (ed.): Shimo (7th edn.; Glane: Monastery of St Ephrem). [Large Quarto edition, in calligraphy of Mor Julius Cicek].

Brock, S.  (tr. M. Campatelli and M. Nin):  Efrem il Siro.  L’arpa dello Spirito.  18 poemi di sant’ Efrem (Rome:  Lipa).

Brock, S.P. (tr. M. Campatelli and M. Nin):  L’occhio luminoso. La visione spirituale di sant’ Efrem (Rome:  Lipa).

Hage, L:  Précis de chant maronite (BUSEK 39; Kaslik: Université Saint Esprit).

Henze, M:  The Madness of King Nebuchadnezzar.  The Ancient Near Eastern Origins and Early History of Interpretation of Daniel 4 (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 61; Leiden:  Brill).  [Ch. 4 on early Syriac tradition].

Key Fowden, E:  The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran (Berkeley:  University of California Press).

Kochappilly, P.P: Celebrative Ethics: Ecological Issues in the Light of the Syro-Malabar Qurbana (Bangalore: Dharmaram Publications).

Lattke, M:  Oden Salomos.  Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar.  Teil 1, Oden 1 und 3-14 (Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus 41/1; Freiburg/Göttingen).

Müller-Kessler, C. and Sokoloff, M:  A Corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic. V, The Catechism of Cyril of Jerusalem in the Christian Palestinian Aramaic Version (Groningen:  Styx).

Tarzi, J:  The Syrian Urhoyan Cuisine.  The Art of Edessan Cookery (Burbank CA: the author [900 N. Glenoaks Road, Burbank CA 91052]).

Thackston, W.M:  An Introduction to Syriac:  an elementary grammar with readings from Syriac literature (Bethesda MD : Ibex).

Thelly, E:  Syriac-English-Malayalam Lexicon (Kottayam:  Deepika Book House).

Van Rooy, H.F:  Studies on the Syriac Apocryphal Psalms (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 7;  Oxford:  University Press).

[6] 2000

Alfeyev, H:  The Spiritual World of Isaac the Syrian (Kalamazoo MI:  Cistercian).

Baum W. and Winkler, D: Die Apostolische Kirche des Ostens. Geschichte der sogenannten Nestorianer (Einführung in das orientalisches Christentum 1; Klagenfurt: Kitab).

Barsoum, Ignatius Aphram I (tr. M. Moosa): The History of Syriac Literature and Sciences (Pueblo CO: Passeggiata Press, ISBN 1-57889-103-5).

Borbone, P.G:  Storia di Mar Yahballaha e di Rabban Sauma.  Un orientale in Occidente ai tempi di Marco Polo (Torino:  Zamorani).

Bou Mansour, T: La théologie de Jacques de Saroug.   Tome II, Christologie, Trinité, Eschatologie, Méthode exégétique et théologique (BUSEK 40;  Kaslik:  Université Saint Esprit).

Brock, S.P. (tr. G. Bulut):  Gelenginde Kutsal Kitap (Istanbul).

Falla, T.C:  A Key to the Peshitta Gospels.  2, He – Yodh (Leiden:  Brill).

Gerber, S: Theodor von Mopsuestia und das Nicänum.  Studien zu den katechetischen Homilien (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 51; Leiden:  Brill).

Hanna, Sabo, and Bulut, Aziz: Wörterbuch Deutsch-Aramäisch, Aramäisch-Deutsch/Sfar melle, Suryoyo-Almanoyo, Almanoyo-Suryoyo (Heilbronn: ISBN 3-00-005767-6).

Hannibal J. Gevargis: Ruhaniyun-e Bar-Jestah-yi Ashuri dar Do Qarn-I Akhir, vol. 1 [Assyrian religious writers of the last two centuries] (Tehran: The Assyrian Church).

Ica, I.I. Jr. (tr.): Sfantul Efrem Sirul, Imnele Nasterii si Aratarii Domnului (Sibiu: Deisis). [Romanian translation of Ephrem, Madrashe on Nativity and Epiphany, and Soghyatha].

Illert, M: Johannes Chrysostomos und das antiochenisch-syrische Mönchtum (Zürich/Freiburg i.B.: Pano).

Joseph,  J:  The Modern Assyrians of the Middle East:  Encounters with Western Missions, Archaeologists and Colonian Powers (Studies in Christian Mission, 26;  Leiden: Brill).

Luxenberg, C: Der Syro-Aramäische Lesart des Koran. Ein Beitrag zur Entschlüsselung der Koransprache (Berlin: Das Arabische Buch).

Mengozzi, A: A Story in a Truthful Language. Neo-Syriac Poems by Israel of Alqosh and Joseph of Telkepe, North Iraq, 17th century, I-II (diss. Leiden University).

Pigulevskaya, N.V:  Sirijskaya Srednevekovaya Istoriografia: Issledovaniya I Perevodi (St. Petersburg:  Rossijskaya Akademiya Nauk, Instiut Vostokovedeniya). With Introduction by E.N.Mescherskaya.

Ross, S.K:  Roman Edessa:  Politics and Culture on the Eastern Fringes of the Roman Empire (London:  Routledge).

Seven d-Beth Qermez, E. (ed.): Antony Rhitor of Tagrit, The Book of Rhetoric. (Södertälje: Författares Bokmaskin) ISBN 91-7910-253-0. (Edition of the complete Syriac text).

Slabczyk, M:  Apokalipso de Danielo Profeto en lando Persio kaj Elama (Vienna:  Arkado Eldonejo).  [Edition and Esperanto translation of  Harvard syr. 42, with use also of BL Add.18715].

Sony, B:  L’Homélie de Jacques de Saroug sur l’Hexameron. I, Traduction et notes sur l’homélie syriaque du Vème-VIème siècle publiée en arabe pour la première fois;  II, Etude de l’homélie syriaque du Vème-VIème siècle publiée en arabe pour la première fois (Rome:  the author [Via G.Ventura 60,  I-00167, Roma]).   [Syriac text, Arabic translation, notes and studies].

Tamcke, M. and Heinz, A. (eds):   Zu Geschichte, Theologie, Liturgie und Gegenwartslage der Syrischen Kirchen (Studien zur orientalischen Kirchen 9;  Hamburg).

Trombley, F.R. and Watt, J.W:  The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite (Translated Texts for Historians, 32;  Liverpool: Liverpool University Press).

Zayat, E. and Immerzeel, M: Documentation and Conservation of Art in Syria.  Papers of the Workshop held at Damascus University 16-19 September 1996 (Leiden:  Research School for African, Asian and Amerindian Studies).   [Including medieval wall-paintings etc.)

[7] No date, but late 1990s

Brock, S.P:   Chang-i Ruh al-Qudus:  Guzidehee az ash`ari-i Mar Aprum (Tehran:  Kanuni Yuhanai Rasul).

- Chashm-i Darakhashan:  Ruyayi ruhani Mar Aprum (Tehran:  Kanuni Yuhanai Rasul).

- Pedaran-i Siryani:  Dar nyaysh va zendigeh ruhani (Tehran:  Kanuni Yuhanai Rasul).