Widely regarded as a premier journal dedicated to the study of Syriac, Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies was established in 1998 as a venue devoted exclusively to the discipline. An organ of Beth Mardutho, the Syriac Institute, the journal appears semi-annually and will be printed in annual editions. A peer-reviewed journal, Hugoye is a respected academic source for up-to-date information about the state of Syriac studies and for discovering what is going on in the field. Contributors include some of the most respected names in the world of Syriac today.

Volume 2 includes the following articles: “St. Ephrem in the Eyes of Later Syriac Liturgical Tradition” by Sebastian Brock; “A Ballad about Saint Andrew and the Cannibals, Attributed to Saint Ephraim” by Michel Esbroeck; “Knowledge of Ephraim’s Writings in the Merovingian and Carolingian Age” by David Ganz; “Ephrem’s Madroshe and the Syrian Orthodox Beth Gazo: a Loose, but Fascinating, Affinity” by Gregorios Ibrahim and George Kiraz; “Ephrem’s Ideas on Singleness” by Thomas Koonammakkal; “The Ephremic Tradition and the Theology of the Environment” by Robert Murray; “The Influence of Ephraim the Syrian” by Andrew Palmer; “’Making Church of England Poetical’: Ephraim and the Oxford Movement” by Geoffrey Rowell; “A Syriac Letter on Papyrus” by Sebastian Brock; “Deir al-Surian (Egypt): Its Wall-paintings, Wall-texts, and Manuscripts” by Karel C. Innemée, Lucas van Rompay, and Elizabeth Sobczynski; “An Account of Gregory Bar Hebraeus Abu al-Faraj and His Relations with the Mongols of Persia” by George Lane; and “The Patriarchs of the Church of the East from the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries” by Heleen H. L. Murre-van den Berg.