RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON SYRIAC TOPICS: 2018* SEBASTIAN P. BROCK, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD GRIGORY KESSEL, AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER SERGEY MINOV, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Books Acharya, F., Psalmic Odes from Apostolic Times: An Indian Monk’s Meditation (Bengaluru: ATC Publishers, 2018). Adelman, S., After Saturday Comes Sunday (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2018). Alobaidi, T., and Dweik, B., Language Contact and the Syriac Language of the Assyrians in Iraq (Saarbrücken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2018). Andrade, N.J., The Journey of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity: Networks and the Movement of Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Aravackal, R., The Mystery of the Triple Gradated Church: A Theological Analysis of the Kṯāḇā d-Massqāṯā (Book of Steps) with Particular Reference to the Writing of Aphrahat and John the Solitary (Oriental Institute of Religious Studies India Publications 437; Kottayam, India: Oriental Institute of Religious Studies, 2018). Aydin, G. (ed.), Syriac Hymnal According to the Rite of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch (Teaneck, New Jersey: Beth Antioch Press / Syriac Music Institute, 2018). Bacall, J., Chaldean Iraqi American Association of Michigan (Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2018). * The list of publications is based on the online Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity, supported by the Center for the Study of Christianity at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (http://www.csc.org.il/db/db.aspx?db=SB). Suggested additions and corrections can be sent to: [email protected] 235 236 Bibliographies Barry, S.C., Syriac Medicine and Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq’s Arabic Translation of the Hippocratic Aphorisms (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 39; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Belinitzky, B., and Rotman, Y. (eds.), The Cave of Treasures: Syriac Anthology from Late Antiquity in Hebrew Translation (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 2018) [in Hebrew]. Bcheiry, I., Hagiography, History, and Manuscript Culture: Studies in Syriac Christianity (Patrimoine Syriaque 9; Kaslik, Liban: Parole de l’Orient, 2018). Bhayro, S., Ford, J.N., Levene, D., and Saar, O.-P., Aramaic Magic Bowls in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin: Descriptive List and Edition of Selected Texts (Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity 7; Leiden: Brill, 2018). Bruns, P., and Kremer, T. (eds.), Studia Syriaca: Beiträge des IX. Deutschen Syrologentages in Eichstätt 2016 (Eichstätter Beiträge zum Christlichen Orient 6; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018). Buda, L., Mar Ephrem and the Early Syriac Ascetic Tradition (Mōrān ’Eth’ō 43; Kottayam, India: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute, 2018). Carlson, T.A., Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Iraq (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Coakley, J.F., A Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library and College Libraries Acquired since 1901 (Ely, Cambridgeshire: Jericho Press, 2018). Deeg, M., Die Strahlende Lehre: Die Stele von Xi’an (Orientalia ‒ Patristica ‒ Oecumenica 12; Wien: LIT, 2018). den Biesen, K., Hemels Brood en Geestelijke Drank: Orde van de viering van de goddelijke Qurobo volgens de traditie van de Syrisch Orthodoxe Kerk van Antiochië (Losser, The Netherlands: Bar Ebroyo Press, 2018). Ebeid, B., Elias of Nisibis. Commentary on the Creed (Tafsīr al- amānah al-kabīrah): Edition, Translation, Introduction and Comments (Syro-Arabica 9; Córdoba: CNERU / Beyrouth: CEDRAC-USJ, 2018). Recent Publications 237 Ebeid, B., La Tunica di al-Masīḥ: la Cristologia delle grandi confessioni cristiane dell’Oriente nel X e XI secolo (Roma: Edizioni Orientalia Christiana, 2018). Falcetta, A., The Daily Discoveries of a Bible Scholar and Manuscript Hunter: A Biography of James Rendel Harris (1852-1941) (London: T&T Clark, 2018). Farina, M. (ed.), Les auteurs syriaques et leur langue (Études syriaques 15; Paris: Geuthner, 2018). Farrokh, K., Maksymiuk, K., and Sánchez Gracia, J., The Siege of Amida (359 CE) (Siedlce: Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, 2018). Feldtkeller, A., and Zeuge-Buberl, U., Networks of Knowledge: Epistemic Entanglement Initiated by American Protestant Missionary Presence in Nineteenth-Century Syria (Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv 28; Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2018). Forness, Ph.M., Preaching Christology in the Roman Near East: A Study of Jacob of Serugh (Oxford Early Christian Studies; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Gianazza, G., ‘Abdisho bar Berīkā (Ebedjesu) (1250ca – m. 1318). I fondamenti della religione (Kitāb uṣūl al-dīn): Introduzione, testo critico arabo e traduzione italiana (Patrimonio culturale arabo cristiano 14; Bologna: CreateSpace, 2018). ——— (ed.), Ṣalībā Ibn Yūḥannā al-Mawṣilī (XIVe s.). Asfār al- asrār I (Patrimoine Arabe Chrétien 33; Beirut: Centre de documentation et de recherches arabes chrétiennes, 2018). ———. Testi teologici di Ebedjesu (Patrimonio culturale arabo cristiano 15; Bologna: CreateSpace, 2018). Girling, K., The Chaldean Catholic Church: Modern History, Ecclesiology and Church-State Relations (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East; London: Routledge, 2018). Godwin, R.T., Persian Christians at the Chinese Court: The Xi’an Stele and the Early Medieval Church of the East (London: I.B. Tauris, 2018). 238 Bibliographies Graf, G., Storia della letteratura araba cristiana. Volume II, tomo 1: Gli scrittori melchiti, maroniti, nestoriani fino alla metà del XV secolo. Tr. by P. Pizzi (Patrimonio Culturale Arabo Cristiano 20; Bologna: Gruppo di Ricerca Arabo- Cristiana, 2018). Grainger, J.D., Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300 (London: Routledge, 2018). Gutman, A., Attributive Constructions in North-Eastern Neo- Aramaic (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 15; Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018). Gzella, H. (ed.), Aramaic Dictionary (Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament 16; Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2018). Haile, G., The Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s Tradition on the Holy Cross (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity 10; Leiden: Brill, 2018). Harrak, A., Le Monastère de Mar-Behnam à la période atabeg – XIIIe s. L’art au service de la foi (Cahiers d’études syriaques 5; Paris: Geuthner, 2018). ———. (ed. and tr.), Mar Narsai: Homily 33 on the Sanctification of the Church (Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 54; Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2018). Hassanabadi, M., Jahani, R., and Jahani, C., A Unified Gospel in Persian: An Old Variant of the Gospels along with Exegetical Comments by Yahyā Ibn Ayvaz-e Tabrīzī-ye Armanī (Studia Iranica Upsaliensia 33; Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2018). Hilkens, A., The Anonymous Syriac Chronicle of 1234 and its Sources (Bibliothèque de Byzantion 18; Leuven: Peeters, 2018). Hollerweger, H., Baum des Lebens: Darstellung und Verehrung des Kreuzes im Orient (Linz, Austria: Initiative Christlicher Orient und Freunde des Turabdin, 2018). Intagliata, E.E., Palmyra after Zenobia, 273–750: An Archaeological and Historical Reappraisal (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2018). Jarjour, T., Sense and Sadness: Syriac Chant in Aleppo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Recent Publications 239 Kahl, O., ‘Ubaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšū‘ on Apparent Death: The Kitāb Taḥrīm dafn al-aḥyā’, Arabic Edition and English Translation (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science 105; Leiden: Brill, 2018). Kalinin, M.G. (ed.), Joseph Ḥazzāyā. Book of the Chapters on Knowledge: Newly Discovered Fragments (Opera Mystica Syriaca 1; Mount Athos: Interpress, 2018). Kavvadas, N., Ephraem der Syrer und Basilios der Große, Justinian und Edessa: Die Begegnung griechischer und syrischer Traditionsautorität in der Ephraemvita und der miaphysitisch- chalkedonische Konflikt (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 146; Leiden: Brill, 2018). Knudsen, E.E., and Wardini, E., Neologisms in Modern Literary Syriac (Perspectives on Linguistics and Ancient Languages 10; Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2018). Koonammakkal, T., The Church in the Churches: A Syriac Ecclesiology (Kuravilangad, Kerala, 2018). Kuruvilla, A., Eastern and Reformed: A Theological Enquiry into the Doctrine of Atonement and the Holy Spirit of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2018). Loosley Leeming, E., Architecture and Asceticism: Cultural Interaction between Syria and Georgia in Late Antiquity (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity 13; Leiden: Brill, 2018). Lorrain, A., Le Commentaire de Théodoret de Cyr sur l’Épître aux Romains: études philologiques et historiques (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 179; Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2018). Manteghi, H., Alexander the Great in the Persian Tradition: History, Myth and Legend in Medieval Iran (London: I.B. Tauris, 2018). Mathews, E.G., Jr. (ed. and tr.), Jacob of Sarug’s Additional Homilies on Good Friday (Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 51, The Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug; Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2018). 240 Bibliographies ———. (tr.), Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on the Six Days of Creation: The Fourth Day (Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 52, The Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug; Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2018). Muraoka, T. (ed. and tr.), Jacob of Serugh’s Hexaemeron (Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series 52; Leuven: Peeters, 2018). Nedungatt, G., Covenant Life, Law and Ministry according to Aphrahat (Kanonika 26; Roma: Edizioni Orientalia Christiana & Valore Italiano, 2018). Neroth