Vanderbilt University has issued a press release about recent publications by Syriaca.org. via Preserving the history of Syriac Christianity in the Middle East.
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Dr. Nathan P. Gibson, co-editor of Syriaca.org’s New Handbook of Syriac Literature, will present a paper titled “Toward a Cyberinfrastructure for Syriac Literature: Mapping a Text Corpus using TEI and RDF” at the Digital Classicist Berlin seminar on January 24, 2017. Abstract A few years ago, scholars of Greek and…
read moreDavid Michelson (General Editor of Syriaca.org) and Dan Schwartz (Director of Syriaca.org) have recently published an essay, “Syriaca.org: New Digital Tools for the Study of the Medieval Middle East,” in Istoričeskij Opyt Mirovyh Civilizacij I Rossiâ: Materialy IV Meždunarodnoj Naučno-Praktičeskoj Konferencii 13 Noâbrâ 2015 G., edited by I. K. Lapšina and O.…
read moreLead co-editor of The Syriac Gazetteer Prof. Thomas A. Calrson will present a paper, “Named concepts Between Reality and Imagination: Syriaca.org’s Approaches to Historical Places and Persons”, at the conference Global Philology – Digital Infrastructure for Named Entities Data, held at Leipzig University on January 11, 2017. Click here for the full text of…
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Syriaca.org is pleased to announce the release of a new online publication: A Guide to Syriac Authors Editors: David A. Michelson, Vanderbilt University Nathan P. Gibson, Vanderbilt University A Guide to Syriac Authors is a scholarly manual with entries on nearly 1,000 authors who wrote in Syriac or otherwise had…
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Syriaca.org is pleased to announce the release of a new online publication: Qadishe: A Guide to the Syriac Saints Editors: Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Marquette University David A. Michelson, Vanderbilt University Qadishe (from the Syriac word meaning “saints”) is a scholarly catalogue of over one thousand persons venerated in the Syriac…
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- 11/23/2024 David Michelson and William Potter Presentation to 17th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age hosted by the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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