A short introduction to Gəʕəz (Old Ethiopic), highlighting root and pattern structures.

A new English translation of the martyrdom of Habib from Syriac.

This talk will explore some advantages and practical considerations of a Coptic dictionary dedicated specifically to the Nag Hammadi (NH) corpus.
Crum’s dictionary, as impressive and dialect-spanning as it is, was completed in 1939, before the NH texts were known. There is a sufficient number of scholars and students specifically interested in…[Read more]

Syriac script has been used to write several languages other than Syriac, the most well known of which is Arabic, a phenomenon known generally and simply as Garshuni. While both Syriac and Arabic belong to the Semitic family of languages and thus share some phonological similarities, there are also differences. In addition, we are dealing with…[Read more]

A common simile in Greek colophons likens the scribe at the end of the copying work to a sailor reaching harbor, and Greek colophons also sometimes include lines contrasting the abiding power of written texts and the short-lived hands that wrote them. Formulas of both of these kinds also appear in Syriac and Arabic manuscripts. They have been…[Read more]

Eliya of Nisibis (975–1046), Patriarch of the Church of the East, has earned a noteworthy position among both Syriac and Arabic writers for his works in grammar, lexicography, historiography and theology. His Kitāb al-turjumān, a topically classified (i.e. non-alphabetic) Syriac-Arabic glossary, serves as an important monument to both Syriac and…[Read more]

Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 3 (2015) 15–65

Published in Adam Carter McCollum (ed.), Studies in Ethiopian Languages, Literature, and History. Festschrift for Getatchew Haile. Presented by his Friends and Colleagues (Äthiopistische Forschungen 83; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017). 431-446.

2018, In Liv Ingeborg Lied and Marilena Maniaci, eds.Bible as Notepad: Tracing Annotations and Annotation Practices in Late Antique and Medieval Biblical Manuscripts. Manuscripta Biblica 3. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. Pp 111-124

Cet article présente une édition et une traduction anglaise, pourvue de quelques annotations, du Martyre de Ste Théonille en syriaque, fondée sur le ms. Vat. Syr. 161, l’unique témoin, à notre connaissance, de ce récit. Le texte syriaque apparaît notablement plus long que les notices grecques ou latines consacrées a cette martyre de la persécutio…[Read more]