Volume 4, Number 2 (July 2001)

SPECIAL ISSUE: Women in the Syriac Tradition

Introduction to the Special Issue
Susan A. HARVEY, Brown University (Special Issue Editor)

Papers

"Bold and Having No Shame:" Ambiguous Widows, Controlling Clergy, and Early Syrian Communities
Michael PENN, Haverford

Women in Aphrahat: Some Observations
Adam LEHTO, University of Toronto

Theodora the "Believing Queen": A Study in Syriac Historiographical Tradition
Susan A. HARVEY, Brown University

Hindiyya Anne ^cjaymi and Her Spiritual Journey: The Essential Lightness of Being
Avril M. MAKHLOUF, The Catholic University of America

Brief Articles

Deir al-Surian (Egypt): conservation work of Autumn 2000.
Karel C. INNEMÉE, University of Leiden

eBethArké: The Syriac Digital Library First Report
George A. KIRAZ, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute

Publications and Book Reviews

Elizabeth Key Fowden, The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran, University of California Press, 1999.
Kathleen E. McVEY, Princeton Theological Seminary

F.R. Trombley and J.W. Watt (trans.), The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite, Liverpool University Press, 2000.
Jan J. VAN GINKEL, University of Utrecht

Theodor Nöldeke, Compendious Syriac Grammar. With a table of characters by Julius Euting, Eisenbrauns, 2001.
Lucas VAN ROMPAY, Duke University

Conference Reports

"Writing Syriac: From Stone to Bytes" The Syriac Panel at the American Oriental Society, March 31, 2001.
Marica CASSIS and Debra FORAN

Syriac Papers at The North American Patristic Society Annual Meeting, May 24-26, 2001
Kristian S. HEAL, Brigham Young University

Forthcoming Conferences/Call for Papers

Third Symposium of German-Speaking Syriacists, Bamberg, July 26-28, 2001.

The Fourth Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity and Islam: Arab Christianity in Iraq in the `Abbasid Period (750-1258), Birmingham September 12-15, 2001.

The Origins of Syriac Christianity, Toronto, November 24, 2001.

Prayer And Spirituality In The Early Church, Australian Catholic University, July 10-13, 2002.

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