Books published by Gorgias Press

This work represents the first time that a major part of the masorah of the great Leningrad Codex, that of the Former Prophets, is being published with an English translation and commentary. Almost nine-thousand notes are transcribed and annotated with biblical references.

This volume is part of a series of English translations of the Syriac Peshitta along with the Syriac text carried out by an international team of scholars.

Essays collected in honour of biblical scholar Professor Ian Arthur Fair.

A re-examination of Aubin's The Rescue of Jerusalem.

A novel examination of One Thousand and One Nights.

This book explores the apocalyptic influence upon the Two Ways metaphor in antiquity and more particularly the influence of the Two Ways in the Didache as veering from an apocalyptic worldview. The argument includes essential critical evaluation of the apocalyptic genre and assesses the apocalyptic features in ancient Two Ways texts.

Aims to present every word form in the Quran as raw data without interpretation.

Aims to present every word form in the Quran as raw data without interpretation.

Aims to present every word form in the Quran as raw data without interpretation.

This study unravels how religion and politics were deeply intertwined in the ritual activities, and how the rituals, in their traditional deeply religious and devotional settings, exerted a maximum of socio-political powers for the king and his institutions.

al-Machriq was an Arabic-French periodical focused on Eastern Christian and Islamic topics in the Arab world. This Gorgias reprint will make widely available a rare resource for scholars of Eastern Christianity, Islam, and modern Arabic thought.

The Guide to the Perplexed in French and Judeo-Arabic. Central to the Jewish tradition in theology and philosophy.

Volume 1 of Thomas J. Levy's collection of the works of Ephrem the Syrian, including the Syriac text and Latin translation.

This two-volume set is a discussion of the writings of Origen on the Gospel according to Matthew and the textual tradition both in Greek and Latin.

This work is a collation of all available manuscripts and printed editions of the Old Testament in a search for variations.

The history of the Armenian province of Syunik is related here by its thirteenth-century bishop, a member of the local family of princes; it includes an extensive introduction by the translator, and an archaeological survey.

This catalog contains detailed descriptions and tables of contents for Turkish manuscripts from the Bibliotheque Nationale; manuscripts are classified by subject.

This work is a catalog of over 2,000 Persian manuscripts from the Bibliotheque Nationale, classified by subject.

A foundational collection of texts for the study of eastern (and western) liturgy, Assemani's Codex Liturgicus Ecclesiae Universae, in twelve volumes, contains texts in Latin, Greek, Coptic, Arabic, and Syriac; the non-Latin texts have translations into that language.

This large three-volume set of 3000 pages presents liturgical documents for the use of the East Syrian Church in communion with Rome. The entire book is only in Syriac, fully vocalized and given in the East Syriac script.

These volumes contain the vocalized Syriac text of 47 metrical homilies (memre) and 10 dialogue poems (sogyatha) of Narsai, probably the most important poet in the Church of the East. Prefaces in Latin and Syriac cover Narsai's life and works.

The Monumenta Syriaca set contains a variety of Syriac texts, including biographical fragments on Roman popes, several exegetical texts, and homilies, by authors such as Ephrem, Jacob of Sarug, John of Dalyatha, Isaac of Nineveh, and others.

Revue de l'Orient Chretien, originally published between 1896 and 1946, is a collection of essays on the Christian East. It contains also many studies in hagiography, apocryphal literature, philology, patristic literature, religious poetry, Church history and theology.

A massive undertaking, this widely read memoir of an American missionary in Syria and Lebanon during the nineteenth century has become a standard reference.

Published two years apart, the work of musicologist Heinrich Husmann on the music of the Syriac Orthodox Church remains a unique contribution to the liturgical study of that tradition. The first volume of this set is a study of the melodies of the weekly breviaries, arranged by the canonical hours of the days of the week.

A concordance of the two text witnesses to the Old Syriac Gospel of the Distinct Evangelists (Evangelion da-Mepharreshe), namely Codex Curetonianus and Codex Sinaiticus.