From Ancient Manuscripts to Modern Dictionaries

Tarsee Li

Tarsee Li is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Languages in the School of Religion at Oakwood University. His research interests include Aramaic and Semitics.

Keith Dyer

Keith taught for 5 years in the Solomon Islands at Su'u Secondary School, before returning to Australia and theological studies at Whitley College. He went on to Doctoral studies in New Testament with Rev Dr Athol Gill, and then taught for three years at the Baptist Theological Seminary, Rüschlikon, in Switzerland, before coming back to Whitley in 1994. He is the author of The Prophecy on the Mount (Mk 13) (1998) and co-editor of Resurrection and Responsibility (2009). Keith was the Chair of the Academic Board of the Melbourne College of Divinity (2006–09) and is now Deputy Chair of the Coursework Studies Committee.

Terry C. Falla

Terry C. Falla is co-founder with Beryl Turner of the International Syriac Language Project, and works with her on the lexicon A Key to the Peshitta Gospels.

Erica Hunter

Dr. Erica C D Hunter is Head, Dept. of Religions and Philosophies and Senior Lecturer in Eastern Christianity, Dept. of Religions and Philosophies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She is co-Chair, Centre of World Christianity, Dept. of Religions and Philosophies, SOAS, University of London.

Jonathan Loopstra

Jonathan Loopstra is an Associate Professor of History at University of Northwestern in St. Paul, MN. He holds an M.St. degree in Syriac Studies from the University of Oxford, a M.A. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from the Catholic University of America. He works primarily in the fields of Patristics and Middle Eastern Studies, with a particular interest in the history and theology of various Christian communities of the Middle East.

Matthew Morgenstern

Professor Matthew Morgenstern is Head of the Department of Hebrew Language and Semitic Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. 

Mor Polycarpus Augin Aydin

Mor Polycarpus Augin Aydin (born Edip Aydin) is the Metropolitan and Patriarchal Vicar for the Archdiocese of the Netherlands of the Syriac Orthodox Church. He gained his Ph.D at Princeton Theological Seminary in 2011.

Richard A. Taylor

Richard A. Taylor is Senior Professor of Old Testament Studies and Director of PhD Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. He holds a PhD in Semitic languages from the Catholic University of America. His research interests focus on Hebrew Bible and Syriac studies.

David Clines

Dean Forbes

Stephen Levinsohn

Steven Runge

Margaret Sim

Michael Theophilos

Michael P. Theophilos is Lecturer in Biblical Studies within the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University. He holds a doctorate in Theology from Oxford University, and an MA degree in Ancient History from Macquarie University. His previous publications have made a considerable contribution to the understanding of the intersection of the Greco-Roman world and the New Testament.

Binyamin Goldstein

Goldstein is a Ph.D candidate, Bible and Semitics, at Yeshiva University. His dissertation is on the relationship between the Targum and Peshiṭta Proverbs, including the first full critical text of the former. His current primary focus is on Syriac texts that penetrated, in a more or less redacted form, into Jewish circles.

Cyrill Büttner

Marilyn Burton

Cynthia Miller-Naude

Sonya Yampolskaya

Valeriy Alikin

Nikolay Grintser

Jordash Kiffiak

Olga Levinskaja

Anne Thompson Coleman