Publications
Ishac, E.A., “Expensive Blessings in the Syriac Liturgical Tradition” On Earth as in Heaven? Liturgy, Materiality, and Economics, edited by Melanie C. Ross, Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press 2025, pp. 153-179.
Ishac, E.A., “The First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea 325 in Syriac Synodal Politics” Annales Historiae Conciliorum 53 (2023), pp. 69-86. [published in December 2024]
Ishac, E.A., “Manuscript Without Borders: Syriac Migrating Written Heritage” Mfaḥmono Kashiro: Perspectives on the Syriac Bible in Honor of Andreas Juckel, edited by George Anton Kiraz and Hannah Stork, (Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 71), Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2024, pp. 35-56.
Ishac, E.A., “A ‘Colophon’ or a ‘Chronicle’? A Lengthy Garshuni-Arabic Colophon” Literary Snippets: A Colophon Reader, edited by Sabine Schmidtke and George Anton Kiraz, Gorgias Press 2024, pp. 101-145.
Ishac, E.A., “Liturgy in Times of Disasters in the Prayers of the Syriac Church of Antioch,” The Liturgical Magazine 51 (2023), [in Arabic], pp. 21-30.
Ishac, E.A., “In Colophons and Margins of the Syriac Liturgical Manuscripts” Literary Snippets: Colophons Across Space and Time, edited by Sabine Schmidtke and George Anton Kiraz, Gorgias Press 2023, pp. 187-199.
Presentations
May 2025: “Public Hand-Written Text Recognition (HTR) for Syriac with Transkribus: State of the Art”, Freie Universität Berlin, Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik. Berlin, Germany.
April 2025: “Towards a New Critical Edition of the Syriac Texts of Nicaea 325”, Nicaea 2025: Event, Context, Reception. International Symposium, Augustinianum and Angelicum. Rome, Italy.
Feb. 2025: “Syriac Liturgical Heritage in Egypt: A General Overview”, in the 11th International Symposium of the Saint Mark Foundation on Coptic Liturgy. Cairo, Egypt.
Jan. 2025: “Project First Results of ISP: Identifying Scattered Puzzles of Syriac Liturgy”, in the workshop: Byzantine Prayer Books (Euchologia). Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna, Austria.
Oct. 2024: “Liturgical Syriac Fragments along the Silk Road”, in The International Conference on Turfan Study: New Developments on the Research of Jingjiao. Turpan, China.
Sep. 2024: “Dialogue and Fire in a Fragmentary Syriac Martyrdom Narrative”, Oxford Interfaith Forum. Chair: Professor Sebastian Brock, University of Oxford. Oxford, UK.
Sep. 2024: “Kothubo Suryoyo: A Syriac Scribe ‘from Athur and Nineveh’: Mattai Bar Fawlos”, in the First Athra Syriac Symposium, organized by the General Directorate of Syriac Culture. Erbil.
July 2024: “Syrian Orthodox Church Fathers in Alexandria: Severus of Antioch and Jacob of Edessa”, (two lectures for Tyrannus Orthodox Theological Seminary). Alexandria, Egypt.
June 2024: “Paratexts in Syriac Liturgical Manuscripts”, in Paratexts in Premodern Writing Cultures, organized by Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Ghent University. Ghent, Belgium.
May 2024: “Syriac Liturgical Texts with Multi-Touch Attributions”, in Misattributions and Forgeries in Middle Eastern Manuscript Traditions, Institute for Advanced Studies - Princeton (IAS) and Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO), Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vienna, Austria.
Oct. 2023: “Nicaea 325 in the East and West Syriac Synods”, in From Ctesiphon to Toledo: A Comparative View on Early Church Councils in East and West, Central European University. Vienna.
