Syriaca.org and the Digital Lab at Vanderbilt University are pleased to invite applications for a virtual workshop on “Digital Encoding for Syriac Studies” to be held July 29-31, 2025. Participation in the workshop is free of charge and will be held via Zoom at the following times: Live Instruction: Tuesday,…
read moreNew Link to the Bibliography: https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/collections/P4VVZ7P6 The editors of the Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (Sergey Minov, HSE University Moscow; Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Oded Irshai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) are collaborating with Syriaca.org to migrate CBSC to Zotero. While the process of transition to…
read moreSyriaca.org hosted an online two-week training workshop (6/3-6/7/2024 and 7/8-7/12/2024) to introduce and train editorial review panelists to assist in the publication of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Library: A New Digital Edition of Wright’s Catalog, a digital enhancement of William Wright’s Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum…
read moreDavid Michelson and William Potter, Co-Editors of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Library: A New Digital Edition of Wright’s Catalogue co-presented at the “Syriac Studies in the UK: Past, Present, Future” conference hosted by Durham University, Durham, UK. In addition to Michelson and Potter, seven student research team members from…
read moreOn November 19, 2023, William Potter, Co-editor of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Library: A New Digital Edition of Wright’s Catalogue, will present “William Wright’s Catalogue and The Digital Wright: Serving the Past, Present, and Future Information Needs of Syriac Manuscript Researchers” at the 2023 Society of Biblical Literature annual…
read moreOn June 14, 2023, William Potter, Co-editor of The Syriac Gazeteer (http://syriaca.org/geo), will present “Modeling the Complexities of Syriac Manuscripts in the Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library,” a presentation on the forthcoming Sinai Manuscripts Data Portal at the 2023 North American Syriac Symposium. The SMDP will provide a more robust data…
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