Syriac and its Users in the Early Modern World, c 1500 - 1750

Christ Church, Oxford

Community Boundaries in the Middle East

Heleen Murre-van den Berg, ‘The Book of the Garden (ktābā d-gantā aw d-luqqāṭē) – a late sixteenth century witness to the early phases of catholicization of the Church of the East 

Lucy Parker –  The interconnected histories of the Syriac Churches

 

Scribes, Authors and Scholars

David Taylor: Maphrian Basilios Shem‘un on Purgatory: Syrian Orthodox responses to Catholic theology in the early eighteenth century.

Hidemi Takahashi: On Some Syriac Scribes and Scholars of the Early Modern Period: Readers and Copyists of Barhebraeus’ Works

 

Syriac Scholarship in Europe: Part I

Philip Forness: Scholarship on Syriac Christianity and Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe

Joanna Weinberg: A Jew reads the Gospels in Syriac: Azariah de’ Rossi’s critique of the Vulgate (1577)

 

Syriac Scholarship in Europe: Part II

Theo Dunkelgrün, [Syriac Studies in the Low Countries, from 1560s Antwerp to 1620s Leiden]

András Mércz: The Syriac Correspondence of Moses of Mardin

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