Brief Biographies of Lecturers
And Select Bibliographies

(January 20. 2021)
“Jacob of Serugh: A Select Bibliographical Guide”, Pages 219-244 in Jacob of Serugh and His Times: Studies in Sixth-Century Syriac Christianity. Edited by Kiraz, George Anton. Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 8. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2010.
”Jacob of Serugh’s Verse Homily on Tamar (Gen. 38)”, Le Muséon 115:3-4 (2002): 279-315.
The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life. Cistercian Studies Series 101. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 1987.
The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of St Ephrem. Rome: Center for Indian and Inter-Religious Studies, 1985.

(February 17, 2021)
Preaching Christology in the Roman Near East: A Study of Jacob of Serugh. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Jacob of Serugh: The Homily on the Apostle Thomas and the Resurrection of Our Lord. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 691, Scriptores Syri 266. Leuven: Peeters, 2020.
“Manuscript Discoveries and Debates over Orthodoxy in Early Christian Studies: The Case of the Syriac Poet-Theologian Jacob of Serugh.” Harvard Theological Review.
“New Textual Evidence for Jacob of Serugh’s Letters: An Analysis and Collation of Five Monastic Miscellanies.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 20, no. 1: 51–128.

(March 17, 2021)
St. Ephrem the Syrian. The Hymns on Faith. The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation 130. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2015.
Bible and Poetry in Late Antique Mesopotamia: Ephrem’s Hymns on Faith. Christianity in Late Antiquity 5. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2019.

(April 21, 2021)
“Guerres et religions en Mésopotamie du Nord dans l’Antiquité tardive : un mimro inédit de Jacques de Saroug sur l’église Saint-Étienne que les Perses ont transformée en temple du feu à Amid (Diyarbakιr) en 503 è.c.”, Syriac Orthodox Patriarchal Journal 56 (2018), p. 29-90.
“Saint Stephen in Amida in a new mimro of Jacob of Serugh : Christianity vs Zoroastrianism in a Clash of Religious Shrines”, in Syriac Hagiography. Texts and Beyond, F. Ruani & S. Minov (eds), Leiden-Boston: Brill, p. 340-364.
Briquel-Chatonnet, Françoise and Debié, Muriel, Le Monde syriaque. Sur les routes d’un christianisme ignoré. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2017.
L’écriture de l’histoire en syriaque: transmissions interculturelles et constructions identitaires entre hellénisme et islam. Avec des répertoires des textes historiographiques en annexe. Late Antique History and Religion 12. Leuven: Peeters, 2015.

(May 19, 2021)
”Formulaic Language in the Metrical Homilies of Jacob of Serugh”, Pages 445-451 in Symposium Syriacum VII: Uppsala University, Department of Asian and African Languages, 11–14 August 1996. Edited by Lavenant, René. Orientalia Christiana Analecta 256. Roma: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 1998.
“Jacob of Serugh. The Homily on the Deluge (Lines 1–210): Introduction, Translation, and Detailed Commentary”. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oxford, 2000.
”United in the Strife That Divided Them: Narsai and Jacob of Serugh on the Ascension of Christ”, Δελτίο Βιβλικών Μελετών 32:A-B (2017): 45-77.
Vicarious Kingship: A Theme in Syriac Political Theology in Late Antiquity. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 100. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017.

(June 16, 2021)
“Holy Boldness: Narsai and Jacob of Serugh Preaching the Canaanite Woman,” Studia Patristica 78 (2017): 85-98.
“Mourning Eve: The Homily on Women as Attributed to Jacob of Serugh,” Patristica Nordica Annuaria 33 (2018): 31-59.
“Sanctifying Boldness: New Testament Women in Narsai, Jacob of Serugh, and Romanos Melodos,” Ph.D. dissertation, Duke University, 2019.

(July 21, 2021)
Akhrass, Roger-Youssef and Syryany, Imad, eds. 160 Unpublished Homilies of Jacob of Serugh. Damascus: Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate, 2017.
Akhrass, Roger-Youssef, “La Vierge Mère de Dieu dans la pensée de Philoxène de Mabboug,” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 13:1 (2010): 31-48.

(August 18, 2021)
Bryant, Kelli Elizabeth, ”Festal Apologetics: Syriac Treatises on the Feast of the Discovery of the Cross”. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oxford, 2015.
Kelli Bryant Gibson, “An Early Syriac Apologia Crucis: Memra 54 ‘On the Finding of the Holy Cross” in Narsai: Rethinking His Work and His World, edit. Aaron M. Butts, Kristian S. Heal, Robert A. Kitchen (Tubigen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020) 117-132.

(September 15, 2021)
‘Diversity in the Christian Arabic Reception of Jacob of Serugh (d. 521)”, Pages 89-128 in Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations. Edited by Roggema, Barbara Hjördis and Treiger, Alexander. Arabic Christianity: Texts and Studies 2. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
Butts, Aaron Michael and Erho, Ted, ”Jacob of Serugh in the Ambrosian Homiliary (ms. Ambros. X.198 sup. and Its membra disiecta)”, Δελτίο Βιβλικών Μελετών 33B (2018): 37-54.
Butts, Aaron Michael, ”The Classical Syriac Language”, Pages 222-242 in The Syriac World. Edited by King, Daniel. Routledge Worlds. London: Routledge, 2019.
Butts, Aaron Michael, “The Christian Arabic Transmission of Jacob of Serugh (d. 521): The Sammlungen,” Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 16 (2016): 39-59.

(October 20, 2021)
Salvation in Christ according to Jacob of Serugh: An Exegetico-Theological Study on the Homilies of Jacob of Serugh on the Feasts of Our Lord. Gorgias Dissertations in Early Christian Studies 49. Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2010.
Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on Epiphany. Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 4, Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug 2. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2008.
Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on Palm Sunday. Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 5, Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug 3. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2008.
Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the Resurrection. Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 14, Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug 5. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2008.
Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the Transfiguration of our Lord. Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 13, Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug 8. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2008.

(November 17, 2021)
Les œuvres de Jacques de Saroug dans la tradition arabe : Inventaire des manuscrits arabes, in : CNERU-CEDRAC, séries Syro-Arabica, 10, Beyrouth, 2019.
Anthropologie de Jacques de Saroug, 2 Tomes : t. 1 Introduction générale, problème de l’authenticité, commentaire théologique et anthropologique, et t. 2 Quatre homélies métriques sur la création, Texte critique, traduction française, notre et index, in : Etudes du Proche-Orient chrétien, 4 et 5, Beyrouth, 2016.
Jacques de Saroug. Quatre homélies métriques sur la Création. CSCO 508-509, Syr. 214-215. Louvain: Peeters, 1989.
“L’homme, était-il mortel ou immortel avant le péché pour Jacques de Saroug?”, Orientalia Christiana Periodica 55:1 (1989): 5-31.
”L’homme, le “microcosme” chez Jacques de Saroug (†521)”, Parole de l’Orient 13 (1986): 51-78.

(December 15, 2021)
Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern Saints. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 18. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
”Jacob of Serug. Homily on Simeon the Stylite”, Pages 15-28 in Ascetic Behavior in Greco-Roman Antiquity: A Sourcebook. Edited by Wimbush, Vincent L.. Studies in Antiquity and Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990.
Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 42. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
Harvey, Susan Ashbrook and Münz-Manor, Ophir, Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on Jephthah’s Daughter. Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 22, Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug 16. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2010.
Harvey, Susan Ashbrook, ”Women and Children in Syriac Christianity: Sounding Voices”, Pages 554-566 in The Syriac World. Edited by King, Daniel. Routledge Worlds. London: Routledge, 2019.