Showing posts with label Syriac. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Syriac. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal

[First posted in AWOL  26 March 2014, updated 20 March 2019]

Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal
The publications of Syriaca.org combine emerging methods in the field of digital humanities with the rigour of traditional scholarship in history and philology. Four digital reference works have been published and more are in preparation:
  • The Syriac Gazetteer (Thomas A. Carlson and David A. Michelson, eds.) is a geographical reference work of all places relevant to Syriac Studies, with no temporal or spatial restrictions.
  • The Syriac Biographical Dictionary (David A. Michelson, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Nathan P. Gibson, and Daniel L. Schwartz, general eds.) is a multi-volume guide to persons related to Syriac culture or history. This resource serves as an authority file or standard reference system for use in cataloguing persons of interest to Syriac studies.
    • Volume 1: Qadishe: A Guide to the Syriac Saints (Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and David A. Michelson, eds.) is a digital catalogue of saints venerated in the Syriac tradition.
    • Volume 2: A Guide to Syriac Authors (David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson, eds.) is a handbook of persons who wrote in Syriac or otherwise had an influence on Syriac literature.
    • Volume 3: Miscellaneous Syriac Persons (David A. Michelson, Nathan P. Gibson, and Daniel L. Schwartz, eds.) is a biographical guide to persons relevant to the study of Syriac history, literature, and culture.
    • Volume 4: Anonymous Syriac Persons (Daniel L. Schwartz, David A. Michelson, and Nathan P. Gibson) is a biographical guide to persons relevant to the study of Syriac history, literature, and culture.
    • [Notabene: At present, volumes 3 and 4 are accessible directly through the main SBD search page]. 
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  • A New Handbook of Syriac Literature is a multi-volume reference guide to Syriac literature from antiquity to the modern period. The first volume has been published and several more are in process. This resources is intended to serve as a title authority file for use in cataloguing Syriac manuscripts.
    • Volume 1: Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica (Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, David A. Michelson, Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, eds.) is a database of Syriac hagiographic literature covering not only saints indigenous to the Syriac traditions but also hagiographic literature and cults appropriated by the Syriac churches from Greek and other traditions.
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  • Gateway to the Syriac Saints (Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, general editor) uses linked open data architecture to Qadishe: A Guide to the Syriac Saints and Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica into a joint resource specifically for the study of Syriac saints. At present this resource links data throughed a system of shared URIs. An RDF instance is also in preparation.
  • Syriaca.org Works Cited is a shared feference list of modern scholarship cited in all Syriaca.org publications.
The following publications are in preparation:
All publications of Syriaca.org are made available online in a free and open format using the Creative Commons licenses.

Prepublication draft data for all in-process publications is currently available in a public Github repository.

For the completed publications listed above, we invite collaborative augmentation and annotation by scholars. Please contact the editors to submit revisions and additions. These reference works are designed to increase their coverage over time.

Friday, August 31, 2018

Beth Mardutho: eBethArké Digital Collection

Beth Mardutho: eBethArké Digital Collection
Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute [www.bethmardutho.org] seeks to promote the study and preservation of the Syriac heritage and language, and to facilitate opportunities for people to pursue the study of this ancient legacy globally. The eBethArké (Syriac for “digital library”) project was envisaged by George A. Kiraz in 2000 to become an open-access online library of Syriac books and material on Syriac studies. Beth Mardutho quickly partnered with Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS), The Catholic University of America, Duke University and Brigham Young University and began scanning books. In summer of 2018, PTS installed Internet Archive’s table top scribe system at Beth Mardutho to digitize George A. Kiraz’s private collection and other public domain texts at the Beth Mardutho Research Library for Internet Archive and Theological Commons.

Thursday, August 30, 2018

Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition

Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition
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e-GEDSH is an electronic version of the 2011 edition of the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, published by Gorgias Press on behalf of the Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute. e-GEDSH is the result of the collaborative efforts of many scholars. The encyclopedia currently holds 622 entries written by 76 contributors. This digital edition is implemented on the Srophé App platform using TEI XML, eXist-db, and linked open data technologies.

General Editor


George Anton Kiraz, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute

Print Edition Editors


Sebastian P. Brock, University of Oxford
Aaron M. Butts, The Catholic University of America
George Anton Kiraz, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
Lucas Van Rompay, Duke University

Digital Edition Technical Editors


David A. Michelson, Vanderbilt University
Ute Possekel, Harvard University
Daniel L. Schwartz, Texas A&M University

Senior Programmer


Winona Salesky

Senior Advisor


Peter R. L. Brown, Princeton University

Front Matter



Entries



Back Matter



Printed Edition


Thursday, May 17, 2018

Open Access Journal: Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies

[First posted in AWOL 23 October 2009. Updated 17 May  2018]

Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies
ISSN: 1097-3702
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Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies is an electronic journal dedicated to the study of the Syriac tradition, published semi-annually (in January and July) by Beth Mardutho. Published since 1998, Hugoye seeks to offer the best scholarship available in the field of Syriac studies.

The word Hugoye, the plural form of Hugoyo, derives from the root hg' meaning 'to think, meditate, study'. Hugoyo itself means 'study, meditation'. In modern times, the term has been applied for academic studies; hence, Hugoye Suryoye translates as 'Syriac Studies'.
Searching for a particular article, but not sure which volume it's in? Try searching our Author Index Page.

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Online Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity

 [First posted in AWOL 18 August 2012, updated 15 April 2018]

 Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity
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It was during the sixteenth century in Renaissance Europe that, as a result of the efforts of the Catholic and Protestant scholars of the New Testament, Syriac studies became a part of European intellectual life. Since then, the number of scholarly publications on various matters related to the history, culture and religious life of Syriac-speaking Christians has only increased. As these publications are in a variety of languages, and many of them scattered through journals and periodicals belonging to various academic fields, it is often difficult to obtain precise information on what has already been published on one or another aspect of Syriac Christianity. Our project aims to fill the evident gap in the bibliographical resources and provide a convenient and easily accessible tool for the worldwide scholarly community. The ultimate goal of this project is to create and launch an on-line database on Syriac Christianity that will be updated on a regular basis and available free of charge to the international scholarly community.     more about ...   
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Open Access Books from The Syriac Studies Reference Library

[First posted in AWOL 14 July 2014, updates 24 October 2017]

The Syriac Studies Reference Library
Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library
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The Syriac Studies Reference Library is a collection of rare and out-of-print titles that are of vital importance for Syriac studies. It is especially rich in early manuscript catalogs, dictionaries, and grammars, and contains many of the indispensable editions of Syriac texts that were produced in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. This collection was scanned from the holdings of the Semitics/ICOR Library of The Catholic University of America. More about the project…

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