Kudos to Four Outstanding Scholars
George A.
Kiraz
Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
George A. Kiraz
James E. Walters
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Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
2003
Vol. 6, No. 2
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George A. KIRAZ
Kudos to Four Outstanding Scholars
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Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies
Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2003
vol 6
issue 2
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.
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[1] It is
with great pleasure that we dedicate this issue of Hugoye:
Journal of Syriac Studies to four outstanding scholars on
the occasion of their sixty-fifth birthday. The blessed year of
1938, during which Brockelmann published his Syrische
Grammatk, was the year of birth of Sebastian P. Brock
(whose last name is a proper prefix of Brockelmann's!), Sidney
Griffith, Rifaat Ebied, and Samir Khalil Samir SJ. Almost every
continent (save South America and Antarctica) can claim credit
to their achievements.
[2]
Sebastian P. Brock will retire this year from his post
as Reader in Syriac Studies at the University of Oxford, where
he is also a Professorial Fellow of Wolfson College.
Previously, he taught at Birmingham and Cambridge. Sebastian
has written extensively on almost every aspect of Syriac
studies. We are particularly indebted to him as he has been
serving as an academic advisor to Beth Mardutho, The Syriac
Institute, since its inception in 1992, and on its
Hugoye Editorial Board since 1998. He has continuously
supported our Institute in every way possible. Sebastian is a
Fellow of the British Academy, Knight of St. Silvester
(bestowed by the Pope), and Commander of St. Ephrem (bestowed
by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch).
[3]
Sidney H. Griffith, S.T., teaches at The Catholic
University of America, and is the director of its Institute of
Christian Oriental Research. His contributions to Syriac
studies and Christian Arabic studies are well known to all.
Sidney also serves on the Academic Advisory Board of Beth
Mardutho, The Syriac Institute, and on its Hugoye
Editorial Board. His encouragement and vision helped us shape
Beth Mardutho to what it is today.
[4]
Rifaat Ebied is Foundation Professor of Semitic Studies
at the University of Sydney, Australia, and a Fellow of the
Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has published
extensively in the field of Semitic Studies, particularly
Syriac Studies. Rifaat is the only scholar who has managed to
attend all the Symposia Syriaca, from 1972 in Rome to Sydney in
2000 (which he organized).
[5] Samir
Khalil Samir, S.J., is one of the better known scholars in
Christian Arabic studies, a field closely related to Syriac
studies. Samir teaches at the University of St. Joseph, Beirut,
and is a consultant to the Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Rome.
He was the William Paton Fellow 1990 in the Selly Oak
Colleges.
[6] May the
dedication of this issue be a small token of appreciation to
their labors in our field. Aksios, Aksios,
Aksios !