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 9 includes the following articles: “A Sixteenth-Century Batrashil in the Metropolitan Museum of Art” by Jennifer L. Ball; “Ecclesiastics and Ascetics: Finding Spiritual Authority in Fifth- and Sixth-Century Palestine” by Jennifer L. Hevelone-Harper; “Possible historical traces in the Doctrina Addai” by Ilaria Ramelli; “Rhetorical Practice in the Chreia Elaboration of Mara Bar Serapion” by Catherine Chin; “Classical Syriac Manuscripts at Yale University: A Checklist” by Leo Depudyt; “Caught in a Compromising Position: The Biblical Exegesis and Characterization of Biblical Protagonists in the Syriac Dialogue Hymns” by Kristi Upson-Saia.