Nicolas Atas

Biblical Interpretation and Scientific Knowledge in the Syriac Tradition: Between Negotiation and Reception 26-27 October 2026, Irish College, Leuven theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...

A Handbook of Neo-Aramaic (eds. Simon Hopkins & Steven Fassberg) The Handbook of Neo-Aramaic aims to provide an introduction to, and details of the complex world of Neo-Aramaic. brill.com/edcollbook/t...

"Orthodox Churches Should Adopt the Niʿmatallah Corrected Calendar" by Prof. Michael Wingert profmwingert.substack.com/p/hot-take-o...

"English-friendly" French-taught summer school in ancient languages at Louvain-la-Neuve (🇧🇪) this August:

ABELAO: Cours d'été de langues anciennes et orientales à Louvain-la-Neuve (4-14 août 2026). Cours en français et en anglais. Réductions early birds jusqu'au 15 avril 2026! abelao.be

Next week we are hosting another paper, this time by Nicolas Atas (KU Leuven) on Syriac lexica! Tune in on Thursday 5 Feb at our regular time of 10 AM CET. As always, don't forget to register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social if you're not yet on our mailing list!

Paul de Lagarde, such a nice fellow 😅

A beautiful hymn from the Syrian Orthodox tradition about the institution of priesthood: ܩܪܐ ܠܗ ܐܠܗܐ Qro Leh Aloho "God called him (Moses)" youtu.be/cRk4tg6g8zY?...

Call for applications for a position as Assistant Professor of Religion in Early Christianity at Princeton University puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Postdoc opportunity at the University of Helsinki for a period of 2 years for the research project "Jeremiah for the 21st Century" (PI: Dr. Miika Tucker): - The Peshitta version of Jeremiah - Textual criticism of the Book of Jeremiah jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

The Beauty and Value of Eastern Bilingual Manuscripts of the Bible by a (brilliant!) KU Leuven colleague Maxime Maleux alongthesilkroad.com/2025/09/12/t...

Armenian garshuni, i.e., Armenian written in Syriac script Vat. sir. 544, f. 9v-12v digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat... It is always fascinating for me to stumble upon unexpected things in Syriac manuscripts!

L'UCLouvain ouvre un poste académique à temps plein en Exégèse biblique et extrabiblique jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...

Post-Doctoral Position in Late Antique Syriac Literature at KU Leuven www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

5-year postdoc position in Syriac studies ‘Gesius’ Commentaries on Galen: Recovering lost works through a mixed-method approach ’ www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

For those interested in Bar Ṣalībī, a collective volume edited by Bert Jacobs, Herman Teule and Joseph Verheyden was published recently by Brill in the series "Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity" "Dionysius bar Ṣalībī: Guardian of the Syriac Orthodox Tradition" brill.com/display/titl...

An interesting article about the language practices of Melkite Christians navigating between Greek, Syriac and Arabic. This article presents several contextualized examples of manuscripts www.ku.de/thf/fachgebi...

Come study with us! Fully-funded Ph.D. scholarship opportunity to work on the Late Antique translation of texts. www.acu.edu.au/research-and...

A nice drawing in this manuscript of Bar Hebraeus from 1810 MS Rendel Harris 59, fol. 86v openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0006/ht...

Post-doc position for a Syriacist in the Frankfurt-Leuven Project “Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus.” Deadline for applications: 23 July 2025 Position is to be filled as of 1 October 2025 for a period of 36 months. www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794849/FB0...

A new Turoyo (Surayt) - Dutch / Dutch - Turoyo lexicon!

My presentation "Hagiography in Ṭuroyo as a part of the local history of Ṭur ʿAbdīn" at the "Symposium on Syriac Saints: Lives, Commemoration, and Memory" at Marquette University (Milwaukee WI, April 10-12, 2025) youtu.be/I1Tnpw81CS8?...

ܪܥܝܐ ܫܪܝܪܐ "Ware Herder": A documentary film about the life of the late Mor Julius Yeshu Çiçek, former metropolitan of the Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Central Europe

Thank you @mara-nicosia.bsky.social !

Don't miss our book launch tomorrow!

I recently acquired a two-volume work containing a non-critical edition of the 70 Syriac Orthodox preserved anaphoras listed by Patriarch Afrem Barṣawm in his “Scattered Pearls”. This collection offers a fascinating glimpse into the richness of the Syriac liturgical tradition!

L’Académie Belge pour l’Étude des Langues Anciennes et Orientales (ABELAO) a le plaisir de vous inviter à son école d’été, qui se tiendra à Louvain-la-Neuve du 29 juillet au 8 août. Plus de détails et inscriptions sur www.abelao.eu

A call for proposals of the NWO for 1 Postdoc in Coptic Orthodox Christianity in Egypt and the Nile Valley in the field of (art) history and archaeology www.nwo.nl/en/calls/van...

Review by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent of “The Syriac World: In Search of a Forgotten Christianity” by Françoise Briquel Chatonnet and Muriel Debié, trans. by Jeffrey Haines www.biblicalarchaeology.org/reviews/revi...

My department has just advertised 5 salaried PhD positions. Projects within the fields of religion, culture studies, environmental humanities, and/or Asian/Middle Eastern studies are welcome. 3-4 years, full-time, fully funded. Candidates must have finished their MA. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Two research assistant positions in Assyriology within the Leipzig Akkadian dictionary project www.saw-leipzig.de/de/ausschrei...

Christian Arabic Winter School January 20th to January 25th, 2025 www.westminster.cam.ac.uk/biblical-lan...

If you have questions about Syriac palimpsests, this new article of mine may provide the answers you're looking for. doi.org/10.1515/9783...

A thread 🧵 about Narsai (East Syriac theologian)

HMML will host an intensive four-week course as an introduction to the Armenian language and paleography in the summer of 2025. Dates: July 7, 2025 to August 1, 2025 hmml.org/programs/int...

Next week: 2-4 December 2024! The Louvain Centre for Eastern and Oriental Christianity invites you to the conference “In Search of Moderation: Reassessing the Theological Center in the Post-Chalcedonian Christological Debates.” Irish College, Leuven (Janseniusstraat 1)

A promising subject for research: Big fat Assyrian/Syriac weddings 😁

Marie-Thérèse Elia : « Jacques de Saroug : Entre christologie conceptuelle et symbolisme naturel » youtu.be/_-h_Plb7eDc?...

20 ans de la Société d'Études Syriaques