Syriac Poetry of the Mongol Time 04 December 2014 3:30 pm Venue: HMML Reading Room Categories: Lecture, Scholar Presentation Tags: poetry, Syriac In this lecture, Dr. Anton Pritula will present his research on the Syriac Christian poets of the 13th- 14th centuries, reconstruct the main stages and styles, and describe the political and historical milieu of the epoch.
Learning good Syriac 09 April 2015 3:30 pm Venue: HMML Reading Room Categories: Lecture, Scholar Presentation Tags: HMML, Syriac The lecture will explore the manuscript tradition of Barhebraeus’ Metrical Grammar in the light of its use by Eastern and Western scholars between the 14th and 16th century.
Why Should Ecumenists Care about Syriac Christianity along the Ancient Silk Road? 17 March 2016 3:30 pm Venue: HMML Reading Room Categories: Lecture, Scholar Presentation Tags: Eastern Orthodox, Middle East, Syriac, Todd Godwin Christianity has been a global religion virtually from its inception. Yet this is not well known among the general public.
Ascetical Reading at Mar Behnam Monastery 10 April 2018 3:30 pm Venue: HMML Reading Room Categories: Lecture Tags: Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, HMML, Iraq, resident scholars Resident Scholar Dr. Robert Kitchen will describe how the practice of ‘ascetical reading’ enables readers to experience texts on a deeper level, drawing on his scholarship of the digitized library from Mar Behnam Monastery near Mosul, Iraq.
