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 5 includes the following articles: “A Bibliographical Clavis to the Corpus of Works attributed to Isaac of Antioch” by Edward G. Mathews, Jr.; “’Exchanging Reed for Reed’: Mapping Contemporary Heretics onto Biblical Jews in Ephrem’s Hymns on Faith” by Christine C. Shepardson; “The Image of the Infant Jesus in Ephrem the Syrian” by Paul S. Russell; “The Dispute between the Cherub and the Thief” by Sebastian Brock; “The Bema in the East Syriac Church in Light of New Archaeological Evidence” by Marica Cassis; “Syriac Writings and Turkic Language according to Central Asian Tombstone Inscriptions” by Wassilios Klein, as well as some shorter articles.