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…
read moreSyriaca.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…
read moreSyriaca.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…
read moreSyriaca.org is pleased to announce the release of a new online publication: Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica Editors: Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Marquette University David A. Michelson, Vanderbilt University P. Ugo Zanetti, Monastère de Chevetogne Claude Detienne, Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Goias The Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica (BHSE) is a guide to over…
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