Gorgias Press
Founded in 2001 Gorgias Press is an independent academic publisher of books and journals related to history, languages, and religious studies, with specific areas of expertise in the Ancient Near East, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Archaeology, Biblical Studies, Classics, Early Christianity, Jewish Studies, Linguistics, and Syriac.
Gorgias [GOR-gee-us] Press was originally created by George and Christine Kiraz as a specialty press that could keep up with their research interests. With a background in computational linguistics, George Kiraz envisioned combining cutting-edge technology with humanities research. The new company would be completely online, with no physical storefront, and it would use automation and digital printing technology rather than traditional print runs. With these tools, the press could afford to publish rare and understudied topics that were previously considered unprofitable, and Gorgias soon became known for its pioneering work in language and linguistics, religion, and especially Syriac and Eastern Christianity.
Gorgias’ philosophy of “Publishing for the Sake of Knowledge” rather than profit, attracted a number of new authors, and the press’ areas of interest rapidly began to expand. Today, Gorgias Press publishes 50-60 new titles a year, including monographs, edited volumes, translations, and more, and Gorgias books can be found in academic collections all over the world.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 252
ISBN: 9781931956024
Pub Date: 24 Aug 2002
Description:
A study on all the social and historical aspects of Mari and Karana, this book provides an account of life in the nineteenth century BCE. Illustrations with photographs and drawings of objects uncovered during excavations provide a lively counterpart to the texts themselves, many of which are quoted in translation.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 420
ISBN: 9782721422354
Pub Date: 05 Jun 2002
Description:
Compiled with the student in mind, Costaz’s Syriac-French-English-Arabic dictionary provides for each Syriac gloss its meaning in French, English, and Arabic. Under each root lemma, all derivatives of the root are given with their morphological data. The entries are typeset so that the French, English or Arabic definitions are easily found.
The dictionary also contains a mini dictionary of proper names..
Format: Hardback
Pages: 1473
ISBN: 9781593332549
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2002
Description:
The Syriac manuscript collection at the British Library is one of the largest and most important collections in any Western library. A great deal of it comes from Deir al-Suryan in Egypt, and without it our knowledge of Syriac Christianity today would not have been possible.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 1334
ISBN: 9781593332556
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2002
Description:
This Cambridge collection includes manuscripts that were formerly in private hands, most notably the manuscripts of John Moore, Bishop of Ely, which were presented to the University by King George I in 1715.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 299
ISBN: 9781593338145
Pub Date: 02 Jan 2002
Series: Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies
Description:
Widely regarded as a premier journal dedicated to the study of Syriac, Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies was established in 1998 as a venue devoted exclusively to the discipline. An organ of Beth Mardutho, the Syriac Institute, the journal appears semi-annually and will be printed in annual editions. A peer-reviewed journal, Hugoye is a respected academic source for up-to-date information about the state of Syriac studies and for discovering what is going on in the field.
Contributors include some of the most respected names in the world of Syriac today. This is Volume 5 of the journal from 2002.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781931956055
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2002
Description:
O’Leary gives a survey of the Syriac Church and its Fathers based on lectures delivered in Bristol University College. They were intended to serve as an introduction to Syriac literature.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 476
ISBN: 9781931956185
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2002
Description:
This is a comparative translation into English of the two earliest versions of the Syriac (or Aramaic) Gospels (codex Sinaiticus and codex Curetonianus), with some interesting differences between the Aramaic and traditional Greek texts.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9781931956178
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2002
Description:
This is a comparative translation into English of the two earliest versions of the Syriac (or Aramaic) Gospels (codex Sinaiticus and codex Curetonianus), with some interesting differences between the Aramaic and traditional Greek texts.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 108
ISBN: 9781931956598
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2002
Description:
An English translation of the liturgy still in use in the Church of the East, the Chaldean Church, and the Syro-Malabar Church.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781931956581
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2002
Description:
In this reissue of the English version of the Primitive Liturgies, the translation has been carefully revised and compared with the original texts, and a few additional notes have been appended to elucidate difficulties.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9781931956796
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2002
Description:
This book is the doctoral dissertation of Khalil Totah, one of the most reliable authorities on scientific education in Palestine during the mid-twentieth century. His work reflected on Palestinian education for many generations.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9781931956154
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2002
Description:
This is an introduction, written in Syriac, to the Syriac versions of the Bible, with chapters on the manuscript tradition, the main editions, commentaries, and various aspects of the ways the Bible was interpreted and used in the Syriac literary and liturgical tradition. Originally written for a Syriac Studies course at the St Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute (SEERI), in Kottayam, India, this new edition has been brought up to date and the bibliography expanded.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 284
ISBN: 9781931956116
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2002
Description:
Rev. Wigram spent much of his clerical career working with the Church of the East, and for years after WWI, he spoke to English readers on behalf of the modern Assyrian people about their claims to a just settlement. This book is his last book on the subject.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 152
ISBN: 9781931956109
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2002
Description:
This is a Syriac-English dictionary based on word frequencies, tables of conjugations, a list of homographs, a list of Greek words, a skeleton grammar, and more. It is a necessary tool for any student of NT Syriac.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9781931956673
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2002
Description:
This book consists of tales of a travel to the Christian East. Bayule St. John (1822-1859) was born in Kentish Town on Aug.
19, 1822, and died at Grove End Road, St. John's Wood, on Aug. 1, 1859.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 408
ISBN: 9781931956703
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2002
Description:
In the Holy Land is a descriptive account of travel through the holy sites in Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, and Turkey. Illustrated with photos from eighteen engravings, the book is a story of travel and excavations.