The Syriac tradition played an important role in shaping pre- and early Islamic concepts of Christianity. In this article, Anton Baumstark argues that a few Arabic citations of the Bible reflect reliance on Old Syriac translations rather than the Peshitta.

In the present essay, Anton Baumstark surveys several Christmas texts from the Roman Antiphonarius Officii in an attempt to find evidence of Byzantine influence. Baumstark focuses the comparison on poetic texts in the Byzantine tradition.

Moving away from his usual interest in Egyptian mummies, Pettigrew here addresses another morbid interest in antiquities: the epitaphs and inscriptions of ancient sepulchers. The majority of this study focuses on the epitaphs of England and surrounding regions that fall into several categories ranging from devotional to untruthful, from rhetorical to ridiculous. Laid out catalogue style with an index, this book was among the first of its genre and retains its value for readers interested in the perceptions of death as left in the monuments of the departed.

This volume, Weyl’s inaugural dissertation, contains the critical edition of Narsai’s second poem on Joseph (from Genesis), edited from two Berlin manuscripts, along with several pages of philological annotations to the text.

Sebastian Euringer publishes here the Syriac text of Isho’dad of Merv’s commentary on the Song of Songs accompanied by an introduction, a German translation of the commentary, notes on the translation, and parallels from other commentaries.

This volume contains the Syriac text, with French translation, of two previously unedited homilies from Jacob of Sarug: “On Mary and Golgotha,” and “On Strangers and their Burial.”

Sebastian Euringer publishes here the Ethiopic text of an Anaphora dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Supplementing the Ethiopic text, Euringer also includes a critical apparatus with variant readings and a German translation.

Otto Spies publishes here a critical apparatus with variant readings to supplement Johannes Bachmann’s edition of the Ethiopic version of the work “concerning the eight [sinful] thoughts” by Evagrius of Pontus. Spies provides a German translation of the collated text.

This volume contains an edition, with annotated translation, of one of Narsai’s poems on the Joseph story from Genesis.

In this volume, Funk addresses questions concerning Aphrahat’s possible relationship to Jewish sources. His method in the main part is to go through biblical passages that Aphrahat comments on and show parallels with rabbinic literature.

Paul Krüger discusses the influence of the “rain prayer” of Ephrem by tracing its use throughout several stages in the development of the Syriac liturgical traditions.

Hieronymus Engberding publishes here a comparison of the Syriac-Antiochene Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles with portions of the Marionite tradition of the Anaphora and the Greek liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, including parallel texts and concluding discussion.

In the present essay, Curt Peters compares citations from the Gospel of Matthew in the Syriac translation of Eusebius’s “Theophany” in order to determine the form of the citations within the Syriac translation tradition.

Paul Kahle publishes here a German translation, with critical notations, of twelve Aramaic Marka hymns, which are an important piece in the early Samaritan liturgy. Kahle’s work supplements other works that contain the Aramaic texts by providing a modern translation.

Philoxenos Yuhanna Dolabani (1885-1969), Metropolitan of Mardin, was an important figure in the Syrian Orthodox church in the twentieth century and a prolific scholar, most of whose works remain unpublished and unknown to Western scholarship. Bishop Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim has here given us a biography of this key figure.

In this study, Haneberg focuses on three prominent authors of the Church of the East: Theodore of Mopsuestia, Narsai, and Babai the Great. He includes three short poems from each author in vocalized Syriac together with a German translation.