DanielKing

Daniel King (Translation Consultant, SIL International and Associate Fellow, Cardiff University) specializes in Greek-Syriac translations in Late Antiquity, and especially in Syriac philosophy. He has published on the Syriac reception of Aristotle, John Philoponus, and Cyril of Alexandria. He is the author, inter alia, of The Syriac World (Routledge, 2019) and The Earliest Syriac version of Aristotle’s Categories (Brill, 2010).

GeorgeKiraz

George A. Kiraz is the founder and director of Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, the Editor-in-Chief of Gorgias Press, and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He earned an M.St. degree in Syriac Studies from the University of Oxford (1991) and an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (1992, 1996). He has published extensively in the fields of computational linguistics, Syriac studies, and the digital humanities. His latest books include The Syriac Orthodox in North America (1895–1995): A Short History (2019) and Syriac-English New Testament (2020).

George is an ordained Deacon of the rank of Ewangeloyo (Gospler) in the Syriac Orthodox Church where he also serves on several Patriarchal, Synodal, and local committees. He lives in Piscataway, NJ, with his wife Christine and their children, Tabetha Gabriella, Sebastian Kenoro, and Lucian Nurono.