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 7 includes the following articles: “Generous Devotion: Women in the colophons of the Church of the East (1500-1830)” by Heleen H.L. Murre-van den Berg; “The Reception of the Book of Daniel in Aphrahat’s Fifth Demonstration, ‘On Wars’” by Craig E. Morrison; “Mallpânâ dilan Suryâyâ. Ephrem in the Works of Philoxenus of Mabbog: Respect and Distance” by Lucas Van Rompay; “Priests, Laity and the Sacrament of the Eucharist in sixth-century Syria” by Volker Menze; “The Colloquy of Moses on Mount Sinai: Where Syriac Christianity Meets Islamic Spain and Africa between the 16th and 19th Centuries” by Karla R. Suomala; and “The Pearl of Virginity: Death as the Reward of Asceticism in Memra 191 of Jacob of Serug” by Robert Kitchen.