Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies brings to the scholarly world the underrepresented field of Eastern Christianity. This series consists of monographs, edited collections, texts and translations of the documents of Eastern Christianity, as well as studies of topics relevant to the world of historic Orthodoxy and early Christianity.

Mandaean Studies addresses the religion, language, literature, and history of the Mandaean community of the Middle East. This community offers invaluable resources for the study of the region and its other great religious traditions, to which it has been a constant witness since its emergence into history during the early centuries of the Common Era.

Series Editor: Charles Häberl

Perspectives on Linguistics and Ancient Languages (PLAL) contains peer-reviewed essays, monographs, and reference works. It focuses on the theory and practice of ancient-language research and lexicography that is informed by modern linguistics.

Series Editorial Board

Lisa Agaiby 

Terry Falla 

Margherita Farina 

Daniel King 

Godwin Mushayabasa 

Willem van Peursen (series editor) 

Richard A. Taylor

This series covers all fields of inquiry—sociocultural, political, legal, religious, scientific, and literary—that concern Muslims across the world during the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Monographs and edited volumes are welcome; dissertations must be thoroughly revised before submission. The preferred language of the series is English.

Nelly van Doorn-Harder and Joas Wagemakers

Advisory Board

To submit a book proposal to the series, please contact submissions@gorgiaspress.com

Munaqashat: Gorgias Studies in the Modern Middle East takes an interdisciplinary approach towards understanding the formation of the Arab world, Turkey, and Iran from the late Ottoman period to the present day. Munaqashat, the Arabic word for "conversations," assesses these social, political, and historical factors, as well as the region's dynamic global interactions, through a critical lens. This series aims to appeal to specialists as well as general audiences seeking to diversify their understanding of the modern Middle East.

This series is now closed to new submissions. For new submissions in this field, please see the Gorgias Press 'Modern Muslim World' series.

Nancy Khalek and Manolis Ulbricht

Advisory Board

To submit a book proposal to the series, please contact submissions@gorgiaspress.com

Texts and Studies is a series of monographs devoted to the study of Biblical and Patristic texts. Maintaining the highest scholarly standards, the series includes critical editions, studies of primary sources, and analyses of textual traditions.

Series Editor

H. A. G. Houghton

Editorial Board

Jeff W. Childers

Alba Fedeli

Viktor Golinets

Christina M. Kreinecker

Gregory S. Paulson

Peter J. Williams

In this series Gorgias publishes monographs and edited volumes on the history, theology, redaction and literary criticism of the biblical texts. Gorgias particularly welcomes proposals from younger scholars whose dissertations have made an important contribution to the field of Biblical Studies. 

The Opera Minora series of the century-old Harvard Oriental Series aims at the swift publication of important materials that cannot be included in the mainly text-oriented Harvard Oriental Series. Therefore, Opera Minora include the publication of seminal conferences, archeological reports, important dissertations, currently controversially discussed topics in Indology and South Asian studies, biographies of outstanding scholars, supporting materials such as linguistic or historical atlases or indexes of important works. 

The past 9 volumes, not always of 'minor' size, contain examples of most of these topics, for example an archeological report on recent excavations in South Asia and Iran related to the Indus civilization 2600-1900 BCE), a large volume with papers of the 5th Vedic workshop, a language atlas of South Asia with detailed statistical data, two volumes with work in progress on the second oldest Indian text (Paippalāda Atharvaveda), or a discussion of the ever-controversial topic (in India) of "Aryans versus non-Aryans". 

Gorgias Islamic Studies spans a wide range of subject areas, seeking to understand Islam as a complete cultural and religious unity. This series draws together political, socio-cultural, textual, and historical approaches from across disciplines. Containing monographs, edited collections of essays, and primary source texts in translation, this series seeks to present a comprehensive, critical, and constructive picture of this centuries- and continent-spanning religion.

The Bulletin for Biblical Research Dissertation Series provides access for completed doctoral dissertations and theses that give evidence of outstanding scholarly achievement ranging across every area of Biblical Studies.  Serving as a publication outlet for Institute for Biblical Research members and others who share the spirit and values of the organization, the series continues a legacy begun with the Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement Series, and recognizes the unique and important achievements of this level of scholarship.  If you have recently completed such a work or know of someone who has, we invite you to submit it to the editors of the series for consideration for publication. 

Editorial Board:

Richard S. Hess, General Editor
Benjamin J. Noonan, Old Testament Editor
Cynthia L. Westfall, New Testaent Editor

Advisory Board:

Leslie C. Allen
Donald A. Carson
Donald A. Hagner
Bruce K. Waltke

Judaism in Context provides a platform for scholarly research focusing on the relations between Jews, Judaism, and Jewish culture and other peoples, religions, and cultures among whom Jews have lived and flourished, from ancient times through the 21st century. The series includes monographs as well as edited collections. 

Series Editorial Board

Rivka Ulmer, Bucknell University (Chair)

Phillip Lieberman, Vanderbilt University   

Elisheva Carlebach, Columbia University            

Jonathan Jacobs, Bar Ilan University

Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford University 

W. David Nelson, Groton School  

Lieve Teugels, Protestant Theological University of Amsterdam  

The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints’ lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian Church Synaxarion represented the logical culmination of a long and steady development of what is today called the cult of the saints. This is the first Armenian-English edition, a twelve-volume series—one for each month of the year—and is ideal for personal devotional use or as a valuable resource for anyone interested in saints.

This series contains volumes dealing with the study of the Hebrew Bible, ancient Israelite society and related ancient societies, Biblical Hebrew and cognate languages, the reception of biblical texts through the centuries, and the history of the discipline. The series includes monographs, edited collections, and the printed version of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.

TeCLA (Texts from Christian Late Antiquity) is a series presenting ancient Christian texts both in their original languages and with accompanying contemporary English translations.

This series publishes scholarly research focusing on the societies, material cultures, technologies, religions, and languages that emerged from Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Levant. Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East features studies with both humanistic and social scientific approaches. 

Series Editorial Board:

Ronald Wallenfels, New York University (Chair)

Paul Collins, Ashmolean Museum  

Aidan Dodson, Bristol   

Alhena Gadotti, Towson University             

Kay Kohlmeyer, HTW Berlin         

Adam Miglio, Wheaton                         

Beate Pongratz-Leisten, ISAW

Gorgias Handbooks provides students and scholars with reference books, textbooks and introductions to different topics or fields of study. In this series, Gorgias welcomes books that are able to communicate information, ideas and concepts effectively and concisely, with useful reference bibliographies for further study.

The Gorgias Classical & Late Antiquity series publishes monographs, edited volumes and translations on the Greco-Roman world and its transition into Late Antiquity, encompassing political and social structures, knowledge and educational ideals, art, architecture and literature. For more information about the series or to submit a proposal, please contact submissions@gorgiaspress.com.

Series Editorial Board

Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis (Chair) Freie Universität Berlin

Ulrike-Rebekka Nieten, Freie Universität Berlin

Adrian Pirtea, University of Vienna

Irene Schneider, University of Göttingen

Manolis Ulbricht, University of Göttingen

Series Advisory Board

Nicola Denzey Lewis, Claremount Graduate University

Stefan Esders, Freie Universität Berlin

Thomas Figueira, Rutgers University

Christian Freigang, Freie Universität Berlin

David Hernandez de la Fuente, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

Markham J. Geller, University College London

Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Brown University

AnneMarie Luijendijk, Princeton University

Roberta Mazza, University of Manchester

Arietta Papaconstantinou, University of Reading

Meron-Martin Piotrkowski, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Shabo Talay, Freie Universität Berlin

The Antioch Bible Series provides both the text of the Syriac Bible (called the “Peshitta”) and an up-to-date English translation. The Syriac is fully vocalized and pointed so that readers at any level will be able to work with it – from beginners who are just starting to learn the language to experienced scholars who want to work with a vocalized text. On each facing page, an English translation has been prepared by a member of an international (and inter-faith) team of scholars, so that both the Syriac and English can be studied together.

Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics is designed to advance our understanding of various aspects of early Christianity. The scope of the series is broad, with volumes addressing the historical, cultural, literary, theological and philosophical contexts of the early Church. The series, reflecting the most current scholarship, is essential to advanced students and scholars of early Christianity. Gorgias welcomes proposals from senior scholars as well as younger scholars whose dissertations have made an important contribution to the field of early Christianity.

Series Editorial Board

Dr. Carly Daniel-Hughes (ThD, Harvard University), Concordia University (Chair)

Dr. Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Lauren (PhD, Brown University), Marquette University

Dr. Adam Serfass (PhD, Stanford University), Kenyon College

Prof. Ilaria Ramelli (PhD, State University of Milan), Sacred Heart Major Seminary

Prof. Helen Rhee (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary), Westmont College

Early Christian Writers: A Commentary Series investigates individual books of the Old and New Testament through the eyes of two early Christian writers from the Church – one from the Eastern part of the Church and the other from the West. The series interacts with Greek and Hebrew biblical texts as well as the thought patterns of the highlighted early Christian writers. It includes original translations of the two selected early Christian writers and their direct comments on the biblical book in question. To submit a proposal for the series, contact submissions@gorgiaspress.com.

Series Editorial Board

Octavian Baban (Bucharest State University)

Robert Edwards (Brisbane School of Theology, Australia)

Slavik Litvenenko (Charles University)

Anneli Machin (University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa)

David McKinley (Minister at Central Schwenkfelder Church and Visiting Professor at Reformed Episcopal Seminary, Blue Bell, PA)

David Nyström (Johannelund School of Theology in Uppsala, Sweden)

H.H. Drake Williams III (ETF-Leuven)

Advisory Board

Clayton Jefford (St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in St. Meinrad, Indiana)

Jacobus (Kobus) Kok (ETF-Leuven)

Chris de Wet (University of South Africa in Pretoria, South Africa)

Pro Oriente (Austria), founded in 1964 by the late Cardinal Franz König, focuses on the relationships between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Christian Churches, and helps the various churches of the Syriac tradition to preserve their unique heritage which is of importance for the whole of Christianity.

Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac is a series of Syriac martyrological texts composed from the fourth century into the Islamic period. They describe the martyrdom of a diversity of Christians at the hands of Sasanian kings, bureaucrats, and priests. These documents vary from purely mythological accounts to descriptions of actual events with a clear historical basis, however distorted by the hagiographer’s hand.

Series Editor: Adam H. Becker (New York University)

Series Editorial Board

Dr. Robert Seesengood, Drew College (Chair)

Dr. Katie Edwards, University of Sheffield

Dr. Laura Copier, Universiteit Utrecht

Dr. Jay Twomey, University of Cincinnati

Dr. James Crossley, St. Mary’s University, London

Dr. Jorunn Økland, University of Oslo

Dr. Rhiannon Graybill, Rhodes College

Regenerating Practices in Archaeology and Heritage is an interdisciplinary series, exploring emerging debates in Archaeology and Heritage studies. Shaping future directions for research through contemporary theory and practice, the volumes in this series are intended to build on and complement each other, developing perspectives and positions taken by other authors in the series, showing connectivity between diverse scales of discourse and between different subfields in Archaeology and Heritage. The series encompasses methodological, scientific and theoretical themes in both edited volumes and monographs and will encompass: collaborative archaeology; museum practice; digital humanities; archaeological fieldwork methodologies; and the intersection between scientific techniques and new understandings of the past.

The Biblical and Apocryphal Christian Arabic Texts (BACA) brings to the scholarly world reliable editions of unpublished texts based on a single manuscript. In particular, the series produces edited volumes on Biblical and Apocryphal literature of the various Christian-Arabic ecclesiastical traditions, preceded by substantial introductory studies covering the socio-historical, theological, literary and linguistic aspects connected to the texts. The primary objective of the series is to present a varied and comprehensive map of texts that represent the rich and vast field of biblical and apocryphal literature in one of the Christian languages, Arabic.

Series Editorial Board

Elie Dannaoui (University of Balamand)

George Kiraz (Beth Mardutho, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

Wageeh Mikhail (Center for Middle Eastern Christianity)

Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala (Series Chair; University of Cordoba)

Sabine Schmidtke (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

Jack Tannous (Princeton University)

Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought (formerly Gorgias Studies in Philosophy and Theology) provides a forum for original scholarship on theological and philosophical issues, promoting dialogue between the wide-ranging fields of religious and logical thought. This series includes studies on both the interaction between different theistic or philosophical traditions and their development in historical perspective.

ASLIP was founded in 1986, under the leadership of Harold C. Fleming, to encourage international, interdisciplinary information sharing, discussion, and debate among human geneticists, paleoanthropologists, archaeologists, and historical linguists on questions relating to language origins and ancestral human spoken languages. One objective is to develop a taxonomy of human languages (a linguistic family tree) and reconstructions of major events in the evolution of modern humans. Alongside this, the complex evolution of physical humans—population movements, shared mutations, and archaeological discoveries—may be related to the linguistic family tree. The ultimate goal of ASLIP is to seek the best explanations as they pertain to the emerging synthesis about modern human origins. ASLIP is not committed to any single proposition. The ASLIP book series, Language in Prehistory, is dedicated to the publication of books that further these stated goals.

Gorgias Chronicles of Late Antiquity aims to publish Syriac and Christian Arabic chronicles dating between the 6th and the 14th centuries in their original languages and with facing English translations. The translations will make these unique chronographic sources accessible to as wide an audience as possible, offering the specialist the opportunity to read them in the original languages and to compare them with the translations.

Orientalia Judaica Christiana: the Christian Orient and its Jewish Heritage, contains studies addressing the afterlife of the Jewish Second Temple traditions and priestly (non-Talmudic) Jewish traditions in the Christian East.

This series explores societal issues in the history of the Near and Middle East, from antiquity to the medieval period. Volumes will include monographs and collections of peer-reviewed essays on aspects of community, family life, legal traditions, and economic affairs. Gorgias particularly welcomes proposals investigating aspects of daily life and sectors of society less visible than others in the historical record.

Series Editor:

Amir Ashur

This series contains monographs and edited collections relating to the modern dialects of Aramaic, including linguistic studies and grammatical descriptions of the dialects, as well as the literature of the Christian and Jewish communities that speak them.