The Peshitta and the Making of the Antioch Bible
12 June, 2025 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr George Kiraz, Senior Research Associate at …
Narsai’s Memra 49, on Adam and Eve: O Instructive Fault!
19 May, 2025 We are deeply honoured to welcome Chorbishop Andrew Younan, the founding Rector of …
Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus on the Problem with the Devil
3 March, 2025 We are deeply honoured to welcome Reverend Professor Gabrielle Thomas, Assistant Professor of …
Byzantine Aristocrat, Monk, Mystic and Dissident: Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022)
3 February, 2025 We are deeply honoured to welcome The Very Reverend Professor John McGuckin, the …
Heavenly Hours: Creation and Time in the Syriac Testament of Adam
9 January, 2025 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Emmanouela Grypeou, Associate Professor at the …
The Monastic Homilies of Isaac of Antioch
25 November, 2024 We are deeply honoured to welcome Revd Dr Shafiq Abouzayd, Director of …
Christian Trees
14 October, 2024 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr Thomas Arentzen, Reader in Church History, …
Dialogue and Fire in a Fragmentary Syriac Martyrdom Narrative
19 September, 2024 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr Ephrem Aboud Ishac, a Principal Investigator …
The Origins of the First Anti-Jewish Good Friday Hymns
22 August, 2024 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor George E. Demacopoulos, Fr. John Meyendorff & …
Finding a Home: The West Syriac Context of the Clementine Epistles on Chastity
8 July, 2024 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr Dan Batovici from KU Leuven to …
Who was Mary, the Blessed Virgin and Mother of God? A Byzantine hagiographical narrative by the ninth-century Monk Epiphanios
24 June, 2024 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Mary Cunningham, University of Nottingham, to …
Nikos Kazantzakis and Orthodox Christianity
4 April, 2024 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Basilius Jacobus (Bert) Groen, Professor Emeritus …
The Miracle of Pilgrimage: A Coptic Journey to the Holy Land During the Ottoman Period
7 March, 2024 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Febe Armanios, Professor of History at …
Setting the Stage: The Rose of Performance in Studying Late Ancient Hymnody
19 February, 2024 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Laura Lieber, Professor of Religious Studies …
Ephrem the Syrian and a New Beginning in Syriac Poetry
15 January, 2024 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Alberto Rigolio, Associate Professor in Classics …
A Jew Reads the Gospels in Syriac: Azariah de Rossi’s Critique of the Vulgate (1577)
14 December, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Joanna Weinberg, Professor Emerita in early …
The Manuscript Project at the Coptic Monastery of St Paul the Hermit at the Red Sea, Egypt
20 November, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr Lisa Agaiby, Academic Dean at …
Mary’s Ordeal: A Syriac Narrative Poem on Many and Joseph
12 October, 2023 We are deeply honoured to announce that Professor Sebastian Brock, FBA, will lead the Eastern …
Resurrection of the Human Body according to John of Dara’s Mimro I:4
11 September, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr Aho Shemunkasho, Director of the MA …
Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God
10 August, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Reverend Professor John Behr, Regius Chair in …
‘Conception by ear’ and Redemption of the Human Sensorium in Ephrem’s Thirty-fifth Madrasha on the Church
20 July, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Kathleen McVey, J. Ross Stevenson Professor …
From Edessa to South Arabia and Back: The Syriac Story of Bishop Paul and Priest John and Models of Sanctity in the Medieval Middle East
5 June, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Reyhan Durmaz, Assistant Professor in Religious …
Wrestling with Calculating-Thoughts: Mental Training according to Evagrius of Pontus
1 May, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Robin Darling Young, Associate Professor of …
Returning the Ticket: God and Evil in the Brothers Karamazov
30 March, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Aristotle Papanikolaou, Archbishop Demetrios Chair in …
Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras: an Orthodox Dialogue with Islam
13 February, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Jeremy Ingpen, Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, …
Matta el-Meskin/Matthew the Poor: a ‘Contemporary Desert Father’ on Christian Unity
16 January, 2023 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr Anthony O’ Mahony, University of Oxford, UK, …
Signs of Miraculousness: The Inimitability of Jacob of Serugh’s Teaching
13 December, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Revd Dr Iskandar Bcheiry, Metadata Editor …
Epistolary Style in Coptic Letters from the Late Third Century to the Early Fifth Century
10 November, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr Myriam Wissa, Catholic University of America, USA, …
Sarah and the Akedah: a Syriac Narrative Poem on Genesis 22
13 October, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Sebastian Brock FBA, to lead …
The Paterik of the Kyivan Caves Monastery: Monk Polikarp in Discourse 14
15 September, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Archpriest Professor Andrew Louth, FBA, Emeritus Professor of …
Jacob of Sarug on the Canaanite Woman (Mt 15:21-28, Mk 7:24-30): Biblical Storytelling and Models of Faith
25 August, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Willard Prescott …
Commemorating the saints at Turfan: Mart Shir and Mar Barshabba
25 July, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr Erica Hunter, University of Cambridge, to lead …
The Opening Prayers of Saint Gregory of Narek’s Book of Lamentations
27 June, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Theo Maarten van Lint, Calouste Gulbenkian Professor …
Alexander Schmemann on Theotokos vis-à-vis Kali a Hindu Mother Goddess
In Memoriam . . . 🕯️ 30 May, 2022 We are delighted to invite to …
Enoch and the Fallen Angels in the Ethiopian Tradition
25 April, 2022 We are delighted to invite you to the Eastern Christianity in Interfaith …
Narsai on the Virgin Mary
31 March, 2022 We are delighted to invite you to the Eastern Christianity in Interfaith …
An Anonymous Syriac Dialogue between Mary and the Angel
17 February, 2022 We are deeply honoured to announce that Professor Sebastian Brock FBA will lead …
Dadisho of Qatar: Questioning the Desert Fathers
20 January, 2022 We are deeply honoured to welcome Revd Dr Robert Kitchen to lead a …
George the Athonite on Matters of Faith and Rite, According to the Life of St George the Hagiorite
9 December, 2021 We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Tamara Grdzelidze, Associate Professor of …
Temple, Shekhinah and Prayer in Isaac of Nineveh’s III.VIII
11 November, 2021 Watch the recording of this session here: If you would like to …
St. Ephrem’s Commentary on Genesis Ch.3
13 October, 2021 We are deeply honoured to announce that Professor Sebastian Brock FBA, University …