Syriaca.org General Editor, David Michelson discussed several current digital research projects in a recent interview with Dr. Ephrem Ishac, Principal Investigator for the FWF project: “Identifying Scattered Puzzles of Syriac Liturgical Manuscripts and Fragments” hosted at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna. The interview has been posted online in…
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CORRECTION! Please use this link for information about the 2026 workshop: https://blog.syriaca.org/2026/05/digital-encoding-for-the-study-of-syriac-literature-a-virtual-workshop-29-june-9-july-2026/ This information below was for the 2025 workshop. Please see the link above for the 2026 workshop. Syriaca.org and the Digital Lab at Vanderbilt University are pleased to invite applications for a virtual workshop on “Digital Encoding for…
read moreNew Link to the Bibliography: https://syriaca.org/cbss/ Zotero Library: 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…
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…
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