Committee for the Promulgation of Ancient Religious Texts - CPART

08/17/2025

Really enjoying the fascinating and engaging posts on this Substack!

At a time when knowledge feels under threat, this Substack collects some smaller stories of knowledge-making--individual, local, embodied. Click to read Human Histories of Knowledge, by Annette Yoshiko Reed, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

08/17/2025

At a time when knowledge feels under threat, this Substack collects some smaller stories of knowledge-making--individual, local, embodied. Click to read Human Histories of Knowledge, by Annette Yoshiko Reed, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

05/12/2025

Lots of interesting stuff here for people who love manuscripts!

Throughout the Middle Ages manuscripts were routinely commissioned, copied, illustrated, displayed, read, and transferred across both sides of the Mediterranean. Their significance as vehicles for the transmission of visual and textual knowledge is well known. Less understood, particularly when it c...

05/11/2025

Very much looking forward to this book, due out in August. The subtitle is "Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity"

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

05/11/2025

Fascinating new research shows the brilliance of the Syriac scribal tradition.

A new study analyzes nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts using digital tools to reveal how scribes shaped literary culture through excerpting—introducing a new metric, Excerpts Per Manuscript (EPM), to map editorial practices across time and genre.

04/30/2025

Very excited to follow this course.

Chorbishop Fr. Andrew Younan, author of "Narsai: Selected Sermons," conducts a bible study on the theology and homilies ("memre") behind one of the great thi...

04/24/2025

Excited to see what is produced by this project!

For more than two thousand years, the Sumerian and Akkadian languages and the cuneiform script dominated the written record of the Middle East (c.3000500 BCE). Yet the hegemonic cultural position of these languages began to erode under the Assyrian Empire (935612 BCE), when...

11/12/2024

11/12/2024

Another splendid issue of Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies.

11/05/2024

AI translator for Syriac!

Translate and learn the Aramaic language and its dialects with the power of AI.

10/22/2024

Here's a quick start guide for Simtho/a, Beth Mardutho's brilliant searchable corpus of Syriac texts.

By Kristian Heal The Simtho/a corpus, a project of Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, is already transforming the way that we do Syriac Studies by providing concordance search facility to a large…