GEORGE A. KIRAZ

PUBLICATIONS

46 Orris Ave, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA

Books ...... 2 Theses...... 5 Text Editions ...... 5 Edited Collections ...... 7 Papers ...... 8 Encyclopedia Articles ...... 13 Series & Periodicals ...... 15 Digital Humanities Portals ...... 16 Introductions & Forewords ...... 16 Reviews ...... 17 Obituaries ...... 17 Online Lectures ...... 17 Audio Recordings ...... 18 Manuscripts (Transcriptions) ...... 18 In Leaflet Form ...... 18 Interviews ...... 19 Reports & Proposals ...... 19 Software & Documentation ...... 20 Profiles ...... 21

1 BOOKS

1. Īlaph lešōnô suryōyô [Learn Syriac, a commentary on Qarabashi’s herge d-qeryono, Key 1 & 2], 2 vols. Bethlehem: [Maṭbaʿat al-Ḥabash], 1982. [For volumes 3 & 4, see under unpublished works.] 2. Syriac for Beginners with Exercises & Cassette Activities. Los Angeles: The St. Ephraim Youth Organization, 1985.

History of the in the Holy] عقد ا���ان �ي أخبار ال��يان/ Iqd al-Jumân‘ .3 Land]. Losser, The Netherlands: Verlag, 1988 [in , written in 1983].

Review: Kaufhold, Hubert. Oriens Christianus 75 (1991): 272-73.

4. The Syriac Primer: Reading, Writing, Vocabulary and Grammar, with Exercises and Cassette Activities. JSOT Manuals 5. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1988.

Review: Martin, A. Etudes Théologiques et Religieuses 64 (1989): 625.

Review: Salvesen, Alison and David Taylor. Journal of Jewish Studies 40, no. 2 (Autumn 1989): 247–48.

Review: Halleux, A de. Ephemerides Theologicae Lovaniensis 66 (January 1990): 195.

Review: Snaith, John. The Expository Times 101, no. 2 (December 1989): 50. https://doi.org/10.1177/001452468910100211.

Review: Brock, Sebastian P. Journal of Semitic Studies 35, no. 1 (Spring 1990): 162.

https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/XXXV.1.162.

Review: Mathews, Edward. The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 53, no. 2 (April 1990): 290–91.

Review: Gelston, A. The Journal of Theological Studies 41, no. 1 (April 1990): 221–22.

Review: Hunter, Erica. Vetus Testamentum 41, no. 2 (April 1991): 252–53.

Abstracted in: ‘Syriac Primer.’ New Testament Abstracts 34: 134.

Selections were published in Voice of the Parish 8, nos. 1 & 2: 4–8; nos. 3 & 4: 4–8; no. 5, 16– 19; no. 9 & 10: 5–8 (1985).

5. A Computer-Generated Concordance to the Syriac New Testament, According to the British and Foreign Society’s Edition, Based on the SEDRA Database. 6 vols. Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, 1993.

Review: Peterson, William. Journal of Biblical Literature 114, no. 2 (Summer 1995): 357–9. doi:10.2307/3266973.

Review: Liber Annuus 43: 570–2.

2 Review: Salvesen, Alison. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 57, no. 3 (1994): 648. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00009435.

Review: Kaufhold, Hubert. Oriens Christianus 78 (January 1994): 262–66.

Review: Philips, D. N. Le Muséon 106, no. 3–4 (1993): 385–87. 10.2143/MUS.106.3.2006038.

Review: Elliott, J.K. Novum Testamentum 36, no.3 (January 1994): 291.

Review: Pazzini, Massimo. Revue Biblique 101, no. 4 (October 1994): 580–82.

https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/XL.1.136.

Review: Healey, John. Journal of Semitic Studies 40, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 136–38.

Review: Juckel, A. Theologische Literaturzeitung 122 (January 1997): 1122.

Abstracted in: ‘A Computer-Generated Concordance.’ New Testament Abstracts (1993).

6. Lexical Tools to the Syriac New Testament. JSOT Manuals 7. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994; 2nd ed., Piscataway, NJ: , 2002.

Review: Peterson, William. Journal of Biblical Literature 114, no. 3 (Fall 1995): 547–48.

Review: Wise, Michael. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 56, no. 3 (July 1997): 212–13.

Review: Torrance, Ian. Scottish Journal of Theology 49, no. 2 (1996): 235.

Abstracted in: ‘Lexical Tools.’ New Testament Abstracts 39: 494.

7. Introduction to Syriac Spirantization, Rukkâḵâ and Quššâyâ. Losser, The Netherlands: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1995. [in Syriac, Arabic, and English; Syriac part republished in East Syriac in Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies 14, no. 1 (2000): 47–73.] 8. Comparative Edition of the Syriac Gospels: Aligning the Sinaiaticus, Curetonianus, Peshīttâ and Harklean Texts. 4 vols. Leiden, New York, Köln: E. J. Brill, 1996; 2nd ed., Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2004.

Review: Kaufhold, H. Oriens Christianus 81 (1997): 243.

Review: Suermann, Harald. Theologische Literaturzeitung 122 (1997): 913.

Review: Peterson, William. TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 2 (1997). http://jbtc.org/v02/Kiraz1997rev.html.

Review: Baarda, Tjitze. Novum Testamentum 39, no.4 (October 1997): 405–14. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568536974712691.

Review: Schmidt, A.B. Le Muséon 110 (January 1997): 471.

10.2143/MUS.110.1.525806.

Review: Parmentier, M. Bijdragen Tijdschrift voor Filosofie en Theologie 59 (January 1998): 97.

Review: MaCarthy, Carmel. Journal of Semitic Studies 43, no 1 (Spring 1998): 185–86.

3 Review: Peterson, William. Journal of Biblical Literature 118, no. 1 (1999): 176–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3268256.

Review: Taylor, Richard. Bibliotheca Sacra 156, no. 621 (March 1999): 110–11.

Review: Salvesen, Alison. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 62, no. 2 (June 1999): 328–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00016761.

Review: Sokoloff, Michael. Journal of the American Oriental Society 120, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 103–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/604895.

Review: Parker, D.C. Hermathena no. 168 (Summer 2000): 106–08.

Review: Taylor, David. The Journal of Theological Studies 52, no. 1 (April 2001): 328–31. https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/52.1.328.

9. Computational Nonlinear Morphology, with Emphasis on Semitic Languages. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Review: ‘Computational nonlinear morphology; with emphasis on Semitic languages.’ Reference and Research Book News; Portland 17, no. 2 (May 2002).

Review: Walther, Markus. Computational Linguistics 28, no. 4 (December 2002): 576–81. 10.1162/coli.2002.28.4.576. ̈ 10. for Children: Serto Edition /ܐܝܠܛ ܠܛܡ ܬܝܒ ܦܠܐ. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2004.

11. The New Syriac Primer: Introduction to Syriac. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007; 2nd ed. 2013.

Extracts published in Introduction to Syriac Reading and Writing. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011.

Extracts published in Verbal Paradigms in Syriac. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2010.

Review: Joosten, Jan. Revue d’Histoire et de Philosophie religieuses 89 no. 2 (2009): 241–42.

Review: van Rooy, H. F. Review of Biblical Literature 17 (2015): 44-45.

12. Tūrāṣ Mamllā: A Grammar of the , Volume I: Syriac Orthography. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012.

Review: Rudolf, Stephanie. Studies 12, no. 2 (January 2014): 185–91. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455227-01202001.

Review: Salvesen, Alison. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 77, no. 2 (June 2014): 372–74. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X14000135.

13. (With Sebastian P. Brock) Gorgias Concise Syriac-English, English Syriac Dictionary. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015; paperback (2017) [titled Pocket Gorgias Syriac- English Dictionary].

4 Translation: into Spanish as Diccionario Gorgias Siriaco-Español, trans. Joan Ferrer and Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2016.

Review: Askin, Lindsey. Review of Biblical Literature (March 2018).

https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10884.

14. The Syriac Dot: A Short History. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015; paperback (2019).

Open Access Link: https://www.gorgiaspress.com/Content/Images/uploaded/978-1-4632- 4100-1.pdf.

Review: Lund, Jerome. Review of Biblical Literature 19 (February 2017).

15. The Syriac Orthodox in North America (1895–1995): A Short History. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2019. 16. (With Sebastian P. Brock) Gorgias Illustrated Learner Syriac-English Dictionary. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020.

THESES

1. ‘Semitic Languages and Two-Level Morphology.’ M.Phil., University of Cambridge, 1992. 2. ‘Computational Approach to Non-Linear Morphology.’ Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1996. [Revised into Computational Nonlinear Morphology; see under Books.]

TEXT EDITIONS

1. The Acts of St. George and the Story of his Father from the Syriac and Versions. Losser, The Netherlands: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991; 2nd edition: Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2009. 2. Lectionary of the Syriac Epistles according to the Ancient Rite of the Syrian Orthodox Church of . Losser, The Netherlands: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1992.

3. Anton Kiraz’s Archive on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2005. 4. (With Sebastian P. Brock) : Select Poems: Vocalized Syriac text with English translation, introduction and notes. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2006.

5. The Searchable and Bookmarked Syriac-English Dictionary, a searchable PDF of J. Payne Smith’s A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007.

6. The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible with English Translation (aka Antioch Bible Series) (ongoing).

5 i. (With Joseph Bali, Gillian Greenberg, and Donald M. Walter). Isaiah. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012. ii. (With Joseph Bali, Gillian Greenberg, and Donald M. Walter), The Twelve Prophets. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012.

iii. (With Jeff Childers). Mark. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012. iv. (With Jeff Childers). Matthew. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012. v. (With Joseph Bali, Gillian Greenberg, and Donald M. Walter). Jeremiah. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2013.

vi. (With J. Edward Walters). Galatians–Philemon. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2013. vii. (With Joseph Bali, Donald M. Walter, and Gillian Greenberg). Lamentations, Prayer of Jeremiah, Epistle of Jeremiah, and Epistles of Baruch. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2013. viii. (With Joseph Bali and Carmel McCarthy). Deuteronomy. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2013.

ix. (With Jeff Childers). Luke. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2013.

x. (With Daniel King). Romans–Corinthians. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2013.

xi. (With Jeff Childers and James Prather). John. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2014. xii. (With Jerome Lund). Revelation. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2014.

xiii. (With Bob Kitchen). Acts. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2014. xiv. (With Donald M. Walter and Gillian Greenberg). Samuel. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015.

xv. (With James Moor and Joseph Bali). Leviticus. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015. xvi. (With Gillian Greenberg, Donald M. Walter, and Joseph Bali). . Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015. xvii. (With Gillian Greenberg, Donald M. Walter, and Joseph Bali). Joshua. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015. xviii. (With Donald M. Walter and Gillian Greenberg). Daniel. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015.

xix. (With Donald M. Walter and Gillian Greenberg). Judges. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015.

6 xx. (With Edward Cook and Joseph Bali). Numbers. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015. xxi. (With Daniel King, J. Edward Walters, and Joseph Bali). Hebrew and General Epistles. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2016.

xxii. (With Jonathan Loopstra and Joseph Bali). Job. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2016.

xxiii. (With Mark Meyer and Joseph Bali). Exodus. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2018. xxiv. (With Gillian Greenberg, Donald M. Walter, and Joseph Bali). Kings. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2018. xxv. (With Robert Gordon and Joseph Bali). Chronicles. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2019. xxvi. (With Mario Kozah, Haya Al Thani, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, and Saif Shaheen) The Syriac and Arabic Lexicon of Hasan Bar Bahlul. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2019. xxvii. (With Craig Morison and Joseph Bali). Genesis. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2019. xxviii. (With Richard Taylor and Joseph Bali). Psalms. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020.

xxix. (With Donald Walter, Gillian Greenberg, Eric Tully, and Joseph Bali). The Book of Women: Ruth, Susanna, Esther, and Judith. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020.

7. The Order of of the . Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012.

Namuj’s Book of Status] / ﻛﺘﺎب «اﻟﺴﺘﺎﺗﯿﺴﻜﻮ» وﯾﺘﻀﻤﻦ وﺻﻒ ﻟﺤﻘﻮق اﻟﺴﺮﯾﺎن اﻷرﺛﻮذﻛﺲ ﻓﻲ اﻷﻣﺎﻛﻦ اﻟﻤﻘﺪﺳﺔ .8 Quo.] Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020.

9. ܐܚܝܫܡ ܥܘܫܝ ܢܪܡܕ ܐܬܕܚ ܐܩܝܬܝܕ / Syriac-English New Testament: The Traditional Syriac Text and the Antioch Bible English Translation. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020.

EDITED COLLECTIONS

1. SyrCOM-95: Proceedings of the First International Forum on Syriac Computing, Washington DC. The Syriac Computing Institute, 1995. 2. SyrCOM-96: Proceedings of the Second International Forum on Syriac Computing, Uppsala, Sweden. The Syriac Computing Institute, 1996.

7 3. SyrCOM-99: Proceedings of the Third International Forum on Syriac Computing, Notre Dame, Indiana. The Syriac Computing Institute, 1999. 4. Malphono w-Rabo d-Malphone: Studies in Honor of Sebastian P. Brock. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2008. 5. (With G. Y. Ibrahim) Studies on Jacob of Edessa. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2010. 6. Jacob of Serugh and His Times. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2010. 7. (With Sebastian P. Brock, Aaron Butts, and Lucas Van Rompay) The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011. 8. (With Zeyad Al-Salameen) From Ugarit to Nabataea, Studies in Honor of John F. Healey. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012. 9. (With Sabine Schmidtke) Writing in My Own Script: Allographic and Garshunographic Systems in Late Antiquity. 2 vols. i. [Part 1] Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 7, no. 2–3. Leiden: Brill, 2019. ii. [Part 2] Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 8, no. 1. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 10. (With Mario Kozah, Haya Al Thani, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, and Saif Shaheen) Beth Qaṭraye: A Lexical and Toponymical Survey. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020. 11. (With Sabine Schmidtke) Scribal Habits in the Islamicate World. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020.

PAPERS

1. ‘A Proposed Syriac Computer Keyboard Layout.’ In Proceedings of the First Ashurbanibal Library Computer Conference. Chicago, 1989. 2. ‘Computers: Innovation and New Future for Syriac Studies.’ In V Symposium Syriacum 1988, ed. R. Lavenant, Orientalia Christiana Analecta 236. Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 1990: 451–475. 3. ‘Semitic Morphology: A Linguistic and Computational Account.’ In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Multi-lingual Computing. Durham, 1992. 4. ‘A New Program for Syriac Word Processing.’ The Patriarchal Journal 31 (1993): 441–50. 5. ‘Speech Synthesis by Diphones.’ Multidisciplinary Research Review 3 (1993): 21–32. 6. (With A. Bolton) ‘The Syriac Hyper-text Project: Report I.’ In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference and Exhibition on Multi-lingual Computing. London, 1994. 7. (With D. Ponsford) ‘Automatic Compilation of Semitic Lexica.’ In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference and Exhibition on Multi-lingual Computing. London, 1994.

8 8. ‘Automatic Concordance Generation of Syriac Texts.’ In VI Symposium Syriacum 1992, ed. R. Lavenant, Orientalia Christiana Analecta 247. Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 1994: 461– 475. 9. ‘Multi-Tape Two-Level Morphology: a Case Study in Semitic Non-linear Morphology.’ In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Kyoto, 1994. 10. ‘The Arabic-Syriac/Syriac-Arabic Dictionary Project: Report II.’ In SyrCOM-95: Proceedings of the First International Forum on Syriac Computing. Washington, D.C., 1995. 11. ‘Computational Analyses of Arabic Morphology.’ In The Linguistic Computation of Arabic, eds. Ajit Narayanan and Everhard Ditters. Bristol: Intellect Ltd, 1995. 12. (With T. Bowden) ‘A Morphographemic Model for Error Correction in Nonconcatenative Strings.’ In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics. Cambridge, MA, 1995. 13. ‘Analysis of the Arabic Broken Plural and Diminutive.’ In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference and Exhibition on Multi-lingual Computing. Cambridge, 1996. 14. ‘Computing Prosodic Morphology.’ In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Copenhagen, 1996. 15. (With E. Grimley-Evans and S. Pulman) ‘Compiling a Partition-based Two-level Formalism.’ In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Copenhagen, 1996. 16. ‘SEMHE: A Generalised Two-Level System.’ In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics. Santa Cruze, CA, 1996. 17. ‘Project Meltho: Syriac Wordprocessing under Windows, Report I.’ In SyrCOM-96: Proceedings of the Second International Forum on Syriac Computing. Uppsala, Sweden 1996. 18. Syriac Computing: A Bibliography, 1975–1995.’ In SyrCOM-96: Proceedings of the Second International Forum on Syriac Computing. Uppsala, Sweden 1996. 19. ‘Comparative Edition of the Syriac Gospels: Final Report and Announcement of Publication.’ TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 1 (1996). 20. ‘Syriac Morphology: From a Linguistic Model to a Computational Implementation.’ In VII Symposium Syriacum 1996, ed. R. Lavenant, Orientalia Christiana Analecta 256. Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 1996: 553–74. / ܐܝܢܘܪܛܩܠܐ ܐܙܓ ܬܝܒ Digitization of the Beth Gazo’]. The‘] ’ ��ق�� البيث ك�ز: ��جيل ال�ك��و�ي بواسطة ال��بيو��‘ .21 Patriarchal Journal 35, no. 167-169 (1997): 544–45. 22. ‘Linearization of Nonlinear Lexical Representations.’ In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Phonology. Madrid, 1997. 23. ‘Compiling Regular Formalisms with Rule Features into Finite-State Automata.’ In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics. Madrid, 1997.

9 24. ‘Arabic Computational Morphology in the West.’ In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference and Exhibition on Multi-lingual Computing. Cambridge, 1998. 25. (With P. Nelson) ‘Project Meltho: Syriac Language Kit for Windows Platforms, Report II.’ In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference and Exhibition on Multi-lingual Computing. Cambridge, 1998. 26. (With E. Grimley-Evans) ‘Multi-tape Automata for Speech and Language Systems: A Prolog Implementation.’ In Automata Implementation, eds. D. Wood and S. Yu, 1436. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin: Springer, 1998. 27. (With B. Möbius) ‘Multilingual Syllabification Using Weighted Finite-State Transducers.’ In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Speech Synthesis. Jenolan Caves, Australia, 1998. 28. (With Sargon Hasso and Paul Nelson) ‘Encoding Syriac in ISO/IEC 10646.’ In SyrCOM-99: Proceedings of the Third International Forum on Syriac Computing. Notre Dame, Indiana, 1999. 29. (With Gregorios Y. Ibrahim) ‘Ephrem’s Madroshe and the Syrian Orthodox Beth Gazo, a Loose, But Fascinating, Affinity.’ Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 2, no. 1 (1999): 47–56. 30. ‘Compressed Storage of Sparse Finite-State Transducers.’ In Automata Implementation, eds. D. Wood and S. Yu, 1436. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin: Springer, 2000. 31. ܐܬܝ�ܟܒ ܐܝܫܘܩܘ ܐܟܟܘܪ.’ [Rūkkāḵā and qūššāyā in Summary] Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies 14, no. 1 (2000): 47–73. 32. ‘Multi-Tiered Nonlinear Morphology Using Multi-Tape Finite Automata: A Case Study on Syriac and Arabic.’ Computational Linguistics 26, no. 1 (2000): 77–105. 33. (With B. Möbius) ‘Word models and Syllabification in Multilingual TTS.’ In Progress in Speech Synthesis II, eds. A. Breen, W. Campbell, J. van Santen, and J. Vonwiller. Berlin: Springer, 2000. 34. ‘Project Meltho - Syriac Fonts for the Microsoft Windows 2000™ Operating System.’ Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 3, no. 1 (2000): 127–129. 35. ‘eBethArké: The Syriac Digital Library: First Report.’ Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 4, no. 2 (2001): 269–271. 36. ‘The Credentials of Julius Alvares, of Ceylon, Goa and Excluding Malabar.’ Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 7, no.2 (2004): 157–168. 37. (With Bhuvana Narasimhan and Richard Sproat) ‘Schwa-Deletion in Hindi Text-to-Speech Synthesis.’ International Journal of Speech Technology 7 (2004): 319–333. 38. ‘A Proclamation Out of Place, “Stomen Kalos, Kyrie-Eleison” and the Nicene Creed.’ In Ktheeboth hago: Festschrift in Honour of Iwas, ed. Roy Thomas, 417– 31. Chicago: St. George Syrian Orthodox Church of Malankarra, 2005.

10 39. ‘Computing the Syriac Lexicon: Historical Notes and Considerations for a Future Implementation.’ In Perspectives in Syriac Linguistics I: Colloquia of the International Syriac Language Project, eds. A. Dean Forbes and G.K. Taylor, 93–104. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2005. 40. (With Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow) ‘Morphological analysis and generation for Arabic dialects.’ In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages. Ann Arbor, 2005. 41. ‘“He Whom the Seraphic Angles Are Afraid to Gaze at”: A Syriac Eucharistic Hymn Shared by the East and West Traditions.’ Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies 20, no. 2 (2006): 18–24. 42. ‘Kthobonoyo Syriac: Some Observations and Remarks.’ Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 10, no. 2 (2007): 29–142. 43. ‘Forty Years of Syriac Computing.’ Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 10, no. 1 (2007): 37–60. 44. ‘Bio Bibliographies of Some Twentieth Century Syriac Writers.’ In Malphono w-Rabo d- Malphone, Studies in Honour of Sebastian P. Brock, ed. George A. Kiraz, 339–64. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2008. 45. ‘Lexica and Grammars in the Late Syriac Tradition, The Three : Oddo, Manna, and David.’ In Foundations for Syriac Lexicography II: Colloquia of the International Syriac Language Project, ed. P. J. Williams, 155–163. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2009. 46. ‘Tabetha Kthobonoyo Syriac: Child Language Acquisition of Kthobonoyo Syriac in a Multi- Lingual Environment.’ In From Ugarit to Nabataea, Studies in Honor of John F. Healey, eds. G. A. Kiraz and Zeyad Al-Salameen, 141–52. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012. 47. ‘Old Syriac Graphotactics.’ Journal of Semitic Studies 57, no. 2 (2012): 231–64. 48. ‘Challenges in Syriac Text Editions using the DOS-based Word Processor Multi-Lingual Scholar.’ In The Letter before the Spirit. The Importance of Text Editions for the Study of the Reception of Aristotle, ed. A. M. I. van Oppenraay. Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 49. ‘Did You Know…The Names of Early Parishes in the United States Have Interesting Origins.’ Voice of the Archdiocese (2012). 50. ‘Canons Prepared by Afram Barsoum in 1927 and Other Legal Documents.’ In Orientalia Christiana: Festschrift für Hubert Kaufhold zum 70 Geburtstag, eds. Peter Bruns und Heinz Otto Luthe, 225–57. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013. [first erronious printing, pp. 203–14, missing the appendix]. 51. ‘Textual Sources and Editorial Policies of the Antioch Bible’ in Samir Khalil Samir, SJ and Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Græco-latina et orientalia. Studia in honorem Angeli Urbani Sexagenarii (Beirut: CEDRAC–CNERU, 2013), 181–88.

11 52. (With Ray Fabri, Michael Gasser, Nizar Habash, and Shuly Wintner) ‘Linguistic Introduction: The Orthography, Morphology and Syntax of Semitic Languages.’ In Natural Language Processing Approaches for Semitic Languages, ed. Imed Zitouni, 3–41. Berlin: Springer, 2014. 53. ‘Garshunography: Terminology and Some Formal Properties of Writing One Language in the Script of Another.’ In Scripts beyond Borders. A Survey of Allographic Traditions in the Euro- Mediterranean World, eds. J. den Heijer, A. Schmidt, and T. Pataridze. Louvain: Peeters, 2014. 54. ‘Piety and Wit: Anecdotes from the Syriac Heritage.’ In Angel of Peace: Platinum Jubilee Souvenir of the Anniversary of St. Ignatius Elias III, ed. Julius Kuriakose. : Mor Ignatius Dayara Committee, 2007. 55. ‘Globalizing Syriac Studies.’ Hekamtho: Syrian Orthodox Theological Journal 1, no. 1(July 2015) 40–50. 56. ‘Automatic Splitting of Lexical Entries from Classical Dictionaries.’ Pacific Journal 10 (2015) 42–50. 57. (With Christina M. Weaver) ‘Turoyo Neo-Aramaic in northern New Jersey.’ International Journal of the Sociology of Language 237 (2016): 19–36. 58. ‘Towards a Lexicon of Syriac Loanwords in Christian Arabic.’ In Between the Cross and the Crescent: Studies in Honor of Samir Khalil Samir, S.J. on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday, ed. Željko Paša, 383–393. OCA 304. Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 2018. 59. ‘A Young Syriac Pupil in the Cairo Genizah: Or.1081 2.75.30.’ Fragment of the Month: Newsletter of the Cambridge University Library Genizah Unit. August 2018. https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/taylor-schechter-genizah-research- unit/fragment-month/fotm-2018/fragment-6. 60. ‘Dots in the Writing Systems of the Middle East.’ In Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 1935–2018, ed. Sabine Schmidtke, 265–275. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2018. 61. ‘A Functional Approach to Garshunography: A Case Study of Syro-X and X-Syriac Writing Systems.’ Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 7, no. 2-3 (2019): 264–277. 62. ‘A Reconstruction of the Lexicon of Bar Saru.’ In Beth Qaṭraye: A Lexical and Toponymical Survey, eds. Mario Kozah et al. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020. [In Press]. 63. ‘A Disgruntled Bishop: A Garshuni letter from Bishop Dinḥā of Midyat to Peter III.’ In Handbook/Reader: Arabic in the Ottoman Empire, ed. Esther-Miriam Wagner. [Submitted]. 64. ‘Learning Syriac and Garshuni in Early Modern Egypt: Evidence from the Cairo Genizah’ in Geoffrey Khan, Sabine Schmitdke, and Sarah Stroumsa (eds.), Studies in Literary Genizot (= Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 8 (2020) [Submitted].

12 65. ‘The Syriac Orthodox and Catholics in the Middle East’ In Christianity in the Middle East: Historical Sketches and Contemporary Practices, eds. Mitri Raheb, Meredith Riedel, and Mark A. Lamport. London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2020. [Submitted]. 66. ‘Negotiating Identity with the Homeland: The “Syriac Orthodox” of North America in the Early Twentieth Century.’ In From Polarization to Cohabitation in the New Middle East, ed. Catalin- Stefan Popa. [Forthcoming]. 67. ‘Seeing Suryānī Authors of the Abbasid Period as Moslems Saw Them: a Non-Reading Approach.’ In Christian Layers in the History of the Middle East, eds. John-Paul Ghobrial, Christian Sahner, Jack Tannous. [place holder volume title; Submitted].

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES

17. ‘Syriac’. In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., 12: 439–440. Oxford: Elsevier, 2006. 18. The following articles in Gorgias Encyclopedia of the Syriac Heritage. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011.

I. ʿAbdullāh I bar Sṭephanos II. ʿAbdullāh Ṣaṭṭūf III. ʿAbdulmasīḥ II IV. Abrohom II Gharib V. Abrohom Naḥshirtono VI. Armalah, Isḥāq VII. Asʿad, Gabriel VIII. Athanasios Aṣlan IX. Audo, Toma X. Aydin, Nuʿmān XI. Ayyub, Barsoum XII. Barsoum, Ignatius Afram XIII. Barsoum, Murad Ṣaliba XIV. Baselios Gewargis XV. Behnam Ḥadloyo XVI. Bello, Estipān XVII. Bidāry, Pawlos XVIII. Bidawid, Raphael I XIX. Computing, Syriac

13 XX. Dabbūs, Antoine XXI. Danhash, George XXII. Daoud, Francis XXIII. al-Dibs, Yūsuf XXIV. Dolabani, Philoxenos Yuḥanon XXV. Elias, Ghaṭṭās (Danḥo) Maqdisi XXVI. Eliya III, Shakir XXVII. Fāʿiq, Naʿʿūm XXVIII. Giwargis II, Ignatius XXIX. Grigorios Yawseph XXX. Ḥanno, Sulayman XXXI. Ḥubeika, Joseph XXXII. Ignatius Yaʿqub III XXXIII. Isḥoq ʿAzar XXXIV. Isḥoq Ṣaliba XXXV. Iwannis Yuḥanon XXXVI. Jacob, Cyril XXXVII. Jamīl, Shmuʿel XXXVIII. Khoury, Asmar XXXIX. Konat, Matta XL. Kthobonoyo Syriac XLI. XLII. Maqdisī, Jeremiah XLIII. Mark, Monastery of St. XLIV. Matay, Dayro d-Mor XLV. Mingana, Alphonse XLVI. Murad, Michael XLVII. Naqqāsheh, Afram XLVIII. Niʿmatullah, Ignatius XLIX. Nūrī, Athanasios Ignatios L. Nuro, Abrohom LI. Qarabashī, ʿAbd al-Masīḥ Nuʿmān LII. Qiryo, Yuḥanna LIII. Qoro, Elias Malke LIV. al-Rāhib, Elias LV. Saba, Boutros

14 LVI. Saka, Yaʿqub LVII. Salmān, Ḥanna LVIII. Samuel, Athanasios Yeshuʿ LIX. Sawma, Abrohom LX. Shamsi Clan LXI. Shaʿya, Elias LXII. Shemʿun II, Basileios LXIII. Sobo, Ignatios LXIV. Sobo, Malki al-Qas Afram LXV. Syriac Orthodox Church LXVI. Taw Mim Simkath LXVII. Yuḥanon XIV bar Shayullāh LXVIII. Yuḥanon Qashisho LXIX. al-Zaʿfarān, Dayr LXX. (with L. Van Rompay) LXXI. Manna, Yaʿqob Awgen (with S. P. Brock) LXXII. Raḥmani, Ignatius Ephrem II (with S. P. Brock) LXXIII. Salomon, Désiré (with J. F. Coakley) LXXIV. Scher, Addai (with S. P. Brock) LXXV. Smith, Agnes and Margaret (with S. P. Brock) 19. ‘Syriac.’ In The World Encyclopedia of Calligraphy, The Ultimate Compendium on the Art of Fine Writing: History, Craft, Technique, 261–262. New York: Sterling, 2011.

SERIES & PERIODICALS

1. Mdarshono [The Educator]: Newsletter of Church St. Ephrem in Los Angeles. Losser: Bar- Hebraeus Verlag. Editor (1986).

2. Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. General Editor (1998–).

3. (formerly The Aramaic Bible). Editorial Board member (1999–2015).

4. Mardu: The Newsletter of Beth Mardutho. Editor (2001–).

5. Analecta Gorgiana. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. Series Editor (2006–2015).

6. Texts from Christian Late Antiquity. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, Series Editor (2006–).

15 7. Texts and Translations of the Chronicle of Michael the Great. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. Series Editor (2010–2012).

8. (With Andreas Juckel) Ṣurath Kthob: The Antioch Bible, series co-editor (2012–). 9. Sebastianyotho: Collected Works of Sebastian P. Brock. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. Series Editor (2018–).

DIGITAL HUMANITIES PORTALS

1. Syriaca.org [syriaca.org], member of the Advisory Committee and the Geography Editorial Committee.

2. Digital Syriac Corpus [syriaccorpus.org], member of the Editorial Board. 3. e-GEDSH: The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of Syriac Heritage [gedsh.bethmardutho.org], General Editor.

4. eBethArke: The Syriac Library [archive.org/details/bethmardutho], Founder. 5. Beth Gazo Portal, apps on Google Play and iTunes, Architect.

6. Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies [hugoye.bethmardutho.org], General Editor. 7. Sedra IV [sedra.bethmardutho.org], Editor-in-Chief (2015). 8. Qaṭraith: A Preliminary Syriac, Aramaic and Arabic Lexical and Toponymical Survey of Beth Qatraye, contributor [bethmardutho.org/qaṭraith] (2019).

9. Simtho: The Syriac Thesaurus, Editor-in-Chief [simtho.bethmardutho.org] (2019). 10. Stories of Survival: Recovering the Connected Histories of in the Early Modern World, Digital Humanities Editor [https://bethmardutho.org/storiesofsurvival/] (2020).

INTRODUCTIONS & FOREWORDS

* = published anonymously.

1. Foreword to The New Testament: A Literal Translation from the Syriac Peshitto Version, by James Murdock, i–vi. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2001.

2. ‘Sebastian Paul Brock, Haddāyā of Syriac Studies.’ Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies 18, no. 1 (2004), 5–8. 3. ‘First Syriac New Testament.’ Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies 21, no. 2 (2007), 57– 61.

16 4. ‘Introduction to the Gorgias Reprint’ in The Widmanstadt- of Editio Princeps of The Syriac Gospels of 1555. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2006. 5. ‘The Making of the Gorgias Reprinted Edition’ in Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug, edited by P. Bedjan, ix–xi. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2006.

6. ‘Introduction to Chaldean-Arabic Dictionary by Eugene Manna,’ i–ii. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007. 7. ‘Thouma Audo and His Lexicon,’ introduction to Treasure of the Syriac Language: A Dictionary of Classical Syriac by Thomas Audo. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2008. [Adapted from ‘Lexica and Grammars in the Late Syriac Tradition’ above.] 8. Introduction to The Earliest Records of Christianity by Eleazar Lipa Sukenik. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2008. 9. *Introduction to Holy Qurbono, The of Saint Jacob bar Salibi, xi–xv. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press & Antioch Press, 2010. 10. *Introduction to Lectionary of the Book of Acts and Lectionary of the Epistle Readings, xiii– xiv. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press & Antioch Press, 2011.

REVIEWS

1. Abdelhadi Soudi, Antal van den Bosch, Günter Neumann (eds.). Arabic Computational Morphology, Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods. Text, Speech and Language Technologies 38 (Springer, 2007) in Computational Linguistics 34.3.

OBITUARIES

1. ‘Mar Raphael Bidawid (1922–2003).’ Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 7 (2004): 1.

2. ‘William L. Petersen (1950–2006).’ Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 10 (2007): 1.

3. ‘Abrohom Nuro (1923–2009).’ Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 12 (2009): 1.

ONLINE LECTURES

1. ‘What does it mean to be Syriac Orthodox?’ Lecture presented at St. Mark's Syriac Orthodox , Teaneck , NJ, February 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d_ljn_HLv8.

17 2. ‘What does it mean to be Syriac Orthodox?’ Lecture presented nopCommerce Days 2017, New York January 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owPw9GoNoJ4. 3. ‘The Antioch Bible.’ Lecture presented at St. Paul Youth Group’s Online Bible Study, June 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qmvcdvZXKQ.

4. ‘From Parchments to Bits: DH Tools in building Digital Corpera from Ancient Manuscripts.’ Lecture presented at the 2nd Summer School in Islamicate DH for Scholars in Manuscript Studies, June 2020.

AUDIO RECORDINGS

1. (With Edip Aydin) Text readings for John Healey’s Leshono Suryoyo: First Studies in Syriac. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2006. 2. Text readings for George Kiraz’s The New Syriac Primer: Introduction to Syriac with a CD. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007. 3. iVocab Syriac: Advanced Vocabulary by Frequency. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2011. 4. Readings from Psalms and the Sermon on the Mount in Syriac. DC: The Bible Museum, 2017. [Playing at the Bible Museum].

MANUSCRIPTS (TRANSCRIPTIONS)

1. 1980. ‘ܐܒܪܘܩܕ ܐܣܟܛ.’ [An Order of Qurobo, Kiraz MS No. 3]. Handwritten manuscript, kept in private library.

̈ 2. 1982. ‘ܪܣܒܒܕ ܢܪ ܡ ܕ ܕܗܠܝܕ ܐܕܐܥܕ ܐܬ ܘܠܨܕ ܐܣܟܛ.’ [An Order of Prayer for the Festival of the Birth of Our Lord, Kiraz MS No. 4]. Handwritten manuscript, kept in private library.

3. 1982. ‘ܐܒܪܘܩܕ ܐܬܫܡܫܬܕ ܐܣܟܛ.’ [An Order of The Service of Qurobo]. Handwritten manuscript, kept in private library.

IN LEAFLET FORM

1. ‘The Service of Baptism of Kenoro,’ Sunday, June 6, 2004. 2. (With Eugene Aydin) ‘The Service of the Hair Cutting of Sebastian Kenoro Kiraz,’ Sunday, October 8, 2006.

18 3. (With Eugene Aydin) ‘The Service of the Hair Cutting of Lucian Nurono Kiraz,’ Sunday, November 6, 2011.

INTERVIEWS

1. ‘The Making of The Antioch Bible.’ Interview by Christine Altinis-Kiraz, June 28, 2012.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYQ12MumTU8. 2. ‘Light from the East.’ Interview by Andrew Schumann, 2013. http://studiahumana.com/pliki/wydania/2(3)-5.pdf. 3. ‘Christians forming militias to fight against ISIS.’ Interview by Ben Swann (RT), March 5, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnbGaquONic.

4. ‘Porte - voix de la disparition.’ Interview by Nicolas Oudin, September 14, 2017. https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/creation-air/tandem-228-porte-voix-de-la- disparition. 5. ‘An Interview with George Kiraz.’ Interview by Nadirah Mansour, November 2, 2017. https://newbooksnetwork.com/george-kiraz-on-gorgias-press-nbn-2017/.

6. ‘Syriac: A Life-Long Passion (and Madness).’ Interview by Martino Diez, July 2, 2019. https://www.oasiscenter.eu/en/syriac-language-promotion-culture.

7. ‘Round Table Talk with George Kiraz.’ Interview by Yeshaya Gruber, March 6, 2020. https://israelbiblecenter.com/roundtable-talks/syriac-studies-bible/. 8. ‘The Syriac Digital Humanities.’ Interview by Ephrem Ishac, April 23, 2020. [In two parts].

https://digitalorientalist.com/2020/04/23/the-syriac-digital-humanities-an-interview- with-george-a-kiraz-part-1/.

REPORTS & PROPOSALS

1. ‘Proposal for Cataloguing and Digitising the Manuscripts of the Patriarchal Library.’ : Syrian Orthodox Patriarchal Library, 1994 [at the request of Andrew Palmer].

2. ‘Methodology of Aligning.’ . St. John’s College: University of Cambridge, December 3, 1995.

19 3. (With P. Nelson and S. Hasso) ‘Proposal to encode Syriac in ISO/IEC 10646.’ Cupertino: the Unicode Technical Committee meeting, Feb 27, 1998. [Unicode document L2/98- 050]. 4. ‘Proposal for Adding Syriac Page Numbers in Microsoft Word.’ Redmond, Washington: Microsoft, 2007. 5. (With Ben Yang and Sebastian Kenoro Kiraz) ‘Proposal to encode COMBINING DOT BELOW LEFT for Syriac.’ Unicode Technical Committee,2020. [Unicode document L2/19-338].

SOFTWARE & DOCUMENTATION

1. ‘SYRMUSIC, Syriac Music in BASIC.’ Los Angeles, 1987. [This is unrelated to Syr Music, the Celtic Band!] 2. ‘Electronic Synopsis of the Four Gospels.’ Alaph Beth Computer Systems, Los Angeles, 1989. 3. ‘Scholar’s Smart Calendar: Conversion between various calendrical systems.’ Alaph Beth Computer Systems, Los Angeles, 1989. 4. ‘AutoTERM: Terminal Emulation and Local Communication between the DOS and PICK Operating Systems.’ AutoStar Technologies, Los Angeles, California, 1990.

5. ‘Alaph Beth Font Kit: Aramaic, Coptic, Hieroglyphic, North Semitic, Phoenician, Sabaean, Syriac and Ugaritic Fonts.’ Alaph Beth Computer Systems, Los Angeles, 1987–92. 6. ‘Syriac Electronic Data Retrieval Archive (SEDRA): A Database Management System for Linguistic Computing in Syriac.’ The Syriac Computing Institute, 1991–93. [Adapted by Logos Software, Accordance, and a few web sites.]

7. ‘MELTHO: Syriac OpenType Fonts for Windows XP/2000™ and Windows 95/98/ME™.’ Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2001.

8. FolioFlow [In house publishing workflow and automation, internal to Gorgias Press].

9. CoverFlow [an XML-based book cover generation program, internal to Gorgias Press].

10. ‘iPubNiche’ [a title management system for publishers]. Ivos Solutions, 2017. 11. ‘Beth Gazo Portal: an Android and iPhone app,’ Eastern Archdiocese for the Eastern United States and Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2018.

20 PROFILES

• Website: http://georgekiraz.com/.

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/george.kiraz. • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kiraz.

• Academia: https://bethmardutho.academia.edu/GeorgeKiraz. • ACL: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/people/g/george-anton-kiraz/.

• ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/search/?searchtype=author&query=Kiraz%2C+G+A. • Twitter: https://twitter.com/GeorgeKiraz.

• Authority Controls o Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF): cb13185304t (data) o International Standard Number Identifier (ISNI): 0000 0000 8123 1441 o Library of Congress (LCCN): nr91018767 o Royal Library of the Netherlands (NTA): 073996750 o Système universitaire de documentation (SUDOC): 035375523 o Virtual International Authority File (VIAF): 44440112 o WorldCat: lccn-nr91018767

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