Tiamat was the Babylonian sea deity. The sea was affiliated with evil. Tiamat was therefore thought to be evil. As a result, the writers of Genesis 1 purposely omitted any wording relating to the word ‘sea’.

Between 91 and 77 BCE a series of wars were fought in Italy which left the Roman commonwealth in shambles and involved efforts on the part of Rome’s non-citizen Italian allies to obtain the rights of Roman citizenship. This is a survey of the allies' quest for citizenship in the Republic, the reasons it was sought, the often violent measures they took to acquire it, and the impact this quest had on the Roman state.

My Baby Brother Lucian is a biography of a baby that is born into a Syriac family as told by his 9-year-old sister. It provides a glimpse of the exciting changes an elder sister faces in the first year of a new baby's life: From what to name the baby, to how the family prepares for a baptism in the Syriac Orthodox tradition, and finally to the one-year birthday party. This book is a simple yet elegant description of the milestones of an infant in his first year of life.

In this volume, Father Joseph Naayem, based on his experiences and conversations with others, narrates the horrors experienced by the Chaldean Christians prior to World War I at the hands of the Turks.

This volume contains the Syriac text, with Italian translation, of a catechetical work on the beliefs and practices of the Yezidis based on a manuscript in the Monastery of Rabban Hormizd.

Distinguished biblical scholar Paul de Lagarde provides an annotated Coptic version of the New Testament arranged by the General Epistles, preceding Pauline Epistles, and concluding with Philemon. Titles and references are in Latin.

This work is a list of the 1662 items in the Chinese version of the Tripitaka, the Theravada Buddhist scriptures.

This eastern Aramaic translation of the Old Testament contains one section of Paul de Lagarde's critical edition of the Babylonian Targum.

History of the Gypsies in Asia and the Middle East

This volume is a history of the Khoens del de Campavias, a Sephardic Jewish family in the Ottoman Empire. The book chronicles the lives of family members from the 1830s through to the Second World War.