Next week we are hosting another paper, this time by Nicolas Atas (KU Leuven) on Syriac lexica! Tune in on Thursday 5 Feb at our regular time of 10 AM CET. As always, don't forget to register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social if you're not yet on our mailing list!

Paul de Lagarde, such a nice fellow 😅

A beautiful hymn from the Syrian Orthodox tradition about the institution of priesthood: ܩܪܐ ܠܗ ܐܠܗܐ Qro Leh Aloho "God called him (Moses)" youtu.be/cRk4tg6g8zY?...

Call for applications for a position as Assistant Professor of Religion in Early Christianity at Princeton University puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Postdoc opportunity at the University of Helsinki for a period of 2 years for the research project "Jeremiah for the 21st Century" (PI: Dr. Miika Tucker): - The Peshitta version of Jeremiah - Textual criticism of the Book of Jeremiah jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

The Beauty and Value of Eastern Bilingual Manuscripts of the Bible by a (brilliant!) KU Leuven colleague Maxime Maleux alongthesilkroad.com/2025/09/12/t...

Armenian garshuni, i.e., Armenian written in Syriac script Vat. sir. 544, f. 9v-12v digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat... It is always fascinating for me to stumble upon unexpected things in Syriac manuscripts!

L'UCLouvain ouvre un poste académique à temps plein en Exégèse biblique et extrabiblique jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...

Post-Doctoral Position in Late Antique Syriac Literature at KU Leuven www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

5-year postdoc position in Syriac studies ‘Gesius’ Commentaries on Galen: Recovering lost works through a mixed-method approach ’ www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

For those interested in Bar Ṣalībī, a collective volume edited by Bert Jacobs, Herman Teule and Joseph Verheyden was published recently by Brill in the series "Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity" "Dionysius bar Ṣalībī: Guardian of the Syriac Orthodox Tradition" brill.com/display/titl...

An interesting article about the language practices of Melkite Christians navigating between Greek, Syriac and Arabic. This article presents several contextualized examples of manuscripts www.ku.de/thf/fachgebi...

Come study with us! Fully-funded Ph.D. scholarship opportunity to work on the Late Antique translation of texts. www.acu.edu.au/research-and...

A nice drawing in this manuscript of Bar Hebraeus from 1810 MS Rendel Harris 59, fol. 86v openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0006/ht...

Exhibition of 15 Syriac manuscripts at KU Leuven on Thursday 11 September 2025 at 4 PM at the Maurits Sabbe Library in Leuven: "Treasures from the East: Syriac Manuscripts in the Collection of the Maurits Sabbe Library" Registration: bib.kuleuven.be/msb/over/nie...

Post-doc position for a Syriacist in the Frankfurt-Leuven Project “Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus.” Deadline for applications: 23 July 2025 Position is to be filled as of 1 October 2025 for a period of 36 months. www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794849/FB0...

If you want to listen to me speak about Turoyo Neo-Aramaic for about 20 min in English, listen to this podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

A new Turoyo (Surayt) - Dutch / Dutch - Turoyo lexicon!

My presentation "Hagiography in Ṭuroyo as a part of the local history of Ṭur ʿAbdīn" at the "Symposium on Syriac Saints: Lives, Commemoration, and Memory" at Marquette University (Milwaukee WI, April 10-12, 2025) youtu.be/I1Tnpw81CS8?...

ܪܥܝܐ ܫܪܝܪܐ "Ware Herder": A documentary film about the life of the late Mor Julius Yeshu Çiçek, former metropolitan of the Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Central Europe

Next week in Palermo!

Thank you @mara-nicosia.bsky.social !

Don't miss our book launch tomorrow!

I recently acquired a two-volume work containing a non-critical edition of the 70 Syriac Orthodox preserved anaphoras listed by Patriarch Afrem Barṣawm in his “Scattered Pearls”. This collection offers a fascinating glimpse into the richness of the Syriac liturgical tradition!

L’Académie Belge pour l’Étude des Langues Anciennes et Orientales (ABELAO) a le plaisir de vous inviter à son école d’été, qui se tiendra à Louvain-la-Neuve du 29 juillet au 8 août. Plus de détails et inscriptions sur www.abelao.eu

A call for proposals of the NWO for 1 Postdoc in Coptic Orthodox Christianity in Egypt and the Nile Valley in the field of (art) history and archaeology www.nwo.nl/en/calls/van...

Review by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent of “The Syriac World: In Search of a Forgotten Christianity” by Françoise Briquel Chatonnet and Muriel Debié, trans. by Jeffrey Haines www.biblicalarchaeology.org/reviews/revi...

Tomorrow at KU Leuven! OIKOS Late Antiquity and Byzantine Studies Masterclass “Mapping Eastern Christian Cultures of Translation” with @philipforness.bsky.social

My department has just advertised 5 salaried PhD positions. Projects within the fields of religion, culture studies, environmental humanities, and/or Asian/Middle Eastern studies are welcome. 3-4 years, full-time, fully funded. Candidates must have finished their MA. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Two research assistant positions in Assyriology within the Leipzig Akkadian dictionary project www.saw-leipzig.de/de/ausschrei...

Christian Arabic Winter School January 20th to January 25th, 2025 www.westminster.cam.ac.uk/biblical-lan...

If you have questions about Syriac palimpsests, this new article of mine may provide the answers you're looking for. doi.org/10.1515/9783...

A thread 🧵 about Narsai (East Syriac theologian)

HMML will host an intensive four-week course as an introduction to the Armenian language and paleography in the summer of 2025. Dates: July 7, 2025 to August 1, 2025 hmml.org/programs/int...

Next week: 2-4 December 2024! The Louvain Centre for Eastern and Oriental Christianity invites you to the conference “In Search of Moderation: Reassessing the Theological Center in the Post-Chalcedonian Christological Debates.” Irish College, Leuven (Janseniusstraat 1)

A promising subject for research: Big fat Assyrian/Syriac weddings 😁

Marie-Thérèse Elia : « Jacques de Saroug : Entre christologie conceptuelle et symbolisme naturel » youtu.be/_-h_Plb7eDc?...

20 ans de la Société d'Études Syriaques

Wow. Not bad! From Chabot, Synodicon Orientale (1902): 130–1.

The Syriac "Google Translate" or "Deepl" has finally arrived! Try it out! oromoyo.ai

L’Institut protestant de théologie, faculté de Paris, met au concours un poste d’enseignant chercheur de Nouveau Testament, à partir du 1er juillet 2025. Le poste est à temps plein, et est permanent. Les dossiers de candidature sont à envoyer d’ici le 31 décembre 2024. ipt-edu.fr/evenement/po...

International Conference “In Search of Moderation: Reassessing the Theological Center in the Post-Chalcedonian Christological Debates” at KU Leuven (December 2-4, 2024) theo.kuleuven.be/en/general/c...

Rest in peace Dr. Christian Walter Hess (1979–2024)

I am very proud to announce that my article "A Syriac-Turoyo Glossary: Ksiqon Qfiso by Chorepiscopus Aho of Sedari (MGMT 0004)" will appear in the volume "Syriac Lexis and Lexica" edited by Mara Nicosia ! www.gorgiaspress.com/9781463247898

Cardinal numbers 1-20 in Turoyo Neo-Aramaic textbook.surayt.com/en/Online%20...

Chaldeans in the diocese of Mardin in 1913 cfr. Joseph Tfinkdji, L’Église Chaldéenne Catholique autrefois et aujourd’hui (Paris: Bureaux des Études ecclésiastiques, 1913), p. 63 digitale-sammlungen.ulb.uni-bonn.de/content/page...

Mgr. Thomas Audo, archévêque d'Urmiah (Perse) Joseph Tfinkdji, L’Église Chaldéenne Catholique autrefois et aujourd’hui (Paris: Bureaux des Études ecclésiastiques, 1913), p. 49 digitale-sammlungen.ulb.uni-bonn.de/content/page...

A trilingual colophon Syriac-English-Arabic MGMT 00008, f. 269r w3id.org/vhmml/readin...

Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded the Père Paul Scholarship for Eastern Christian Studies! thehiddenpearl.press/scholarship-...

A whopping 117 #Manuscripts from #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023... including a ton of Pal.gr, more unusual liturgy in P.I.O., including a bilingual Typikon, more Boethius including several in Greek, a glossed Martinianus Capella, and more (even one Henry Stevenson Jr!)