Syriac Liturgy

Research Output

08.03.2025

Research Output

Research Output

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.