Short description:

The essays of this volume capture what the field of Syriac studies has recently attained, how it presents itself at the moment, where it has yet to go, and how one person, Sebastian Brock, figures in its midst.

Long description:

No one mentions Syriac, ? a dialect of the Aramaic language Jesus spoke ?, without referring to Sebastian P. Brock, the Oxford scholar and teacher who has written and taught about everything Syriac, even reorienting the field as The Third Lung of early Christianity (along with Greek and Latin). In 2018, Syriac scholars world-wide gathered in Sigtuna, Sweden, to celebrate with Sebastian his accomplishments and share new directions. Through essays showing what Syriac studies have attained, where they are going, as well as some arenas and connections previously not imagined, flavors of the fruits of laboring in the field are offered.



Contributors to this volume are: Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Shraga Bick, Briouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Alberto Camplani, Thomas A. Carlson, Jeff W. Childers, Muriel Debié, Terry Falla, George A. Kiraz, Sergey Minov, Craig E. Morrison, István Perczel, Anton Pritula, Ilaria Ramelli, Christine Shepardson, Stephen J. Shoemaker, Herman G.B. Teule, Kathleen E. McVey.

Table of Contents:

Contributors


Introduction: The Third Lung


 Robert A. Kitchen

Part 1: Going Where We Should Have Gone

Part 2: Digging Deeper

Part 3: Going Where We Have Not Been