Public Lectures of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies
George A.
Kiraz
Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
George A. Kiraz
James E. Walters
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Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
January 2003
Vol. 6, No. 1
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Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies
Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2003
vol 6
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Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies is an electronic journal dedicated to the study
of the Syriac tradition, published semi-annually (in January and July) by Beth
Mardutho: The Syriac Institute. Published since 1998, Hugoye seeks to offer the
best scholarship available in the field of Syriac studies.
Syriac Studies
Conferences
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[1] The
Canadian Society for Syriac Studies will be holding the
following Public Lectures:
22 January 2003. Professor John Corbett, University
of Toronto. They Do Not Take Wives, or Build, or Work the
Ground: Ascetic Life in the Early Syriac Christian
Tradition. The search for Perfection in the ascetic life is
central to the Book of Steps. Robert Murray has demonstrated
that the primary rationale for the ascetic life in the Syriac
tradition draws on the theme of Holy War in the Hebrew Bible
and related materials in the Gospel tradition. I will attempt
to demonstrate that the same theme provides a fundamental
symbolic structure for the ascetic vocation in the Book of
Steps.
12 March 2003. Professor Kathleen McVey, Princeton
Theological Seminary. Returning to the Womb and the Breast:
Images of Joy in Ephrem's Hymns on Paradise. The paper is
an exploration of Ephrem's invocation of the bliss of infancy
to describe life in paradise. It will begin with a
presentation of these themes especially as seen in the Paradise
Hymns 9-11. Next will be a brief effort to contextualize these
notions in relation to Near East Wisdom literature,
Jewish-Christianity and Stoic allegory. Finally I will ponder
the uniqueness of Ephrem's vision and its value for
contemporary theology.
9 April 2003. Dr. Jan van Ginkel, Leiden University.
A Monk, Missionary and Martyr Who Also Wrote History: John
of Ephesus, a Syrian Orthodox Historian in Sixth Century
Byzantium. John of Ephesus was an imperial missionary and a
"Monophysite" bishop who died as a convicted "heretic". He
wrote the excellent Lives of Eastern Saints as well as Church
History both in the Syriac language. Being a member of Syrian
Orthodox Church, his views differed from the Greek and
Chalcedonian ones. But John also differed from later Syriac
authors, in that he wrote contemporary events with no idea of
how these would unfold, whereas later writers looked at the
same events as "past" history. We will present the man, career
and literary activities, and then focus on his perception of
6th century ecclesiastical and political events and on how this
perception may influence our own understanding of the same
events.
[2] For information,
contact the Society at csss@chass.utoronto.ca, Tel.
416/978-3184, Fax. 416/978-3305,
www.chass.utoronto.ca/~csss.